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In this project, Rhys Chatham comes to the city where Guitar Trio will be presented and teaches the work to local musicians in one or two workshop rehearsals. While Guitar Trio in the 70s was performed with 3 electric guitarists, one electric bass and drummer, today’s version uses a minimum of six electric guitars (including Chatham), with a ...
Rhys Chatham. Music Department: Soy Nero. Rhys Chatham is known for Soy Nero (2016), Harmony (2013) and Chasing the Dragon (1987).
Oct 17, 2008 · A native New Yorker now living in Paris, composer Rhys Chatham helped define New York’s downtown aesthetic in the ’70s. Originally working in minimalist composition while booking concerts at The Kitchen, Chatham later picked up the electric guitar in No Wave bands and developed his own instrumental pieces for guitar ensembles, reflecting his experience playing with minimalist pioneers Tony ...
What’s unique about this particular debate is that the chicken and egg themselves — Rhys Chatham and Glenn Branca — have been doing all the shouting about just which composer/performer caught the no wave first. One thing’s for certain: Chatham’s tightrope walk across the rock/classical gorge began firmly on the “legitimate” side ...
Dec 5, 2013 · Seminal downtown N.Y. composer Rhys Chatham's latest release, Harmonie due Soir, includes three pieces—his first ensemble of six guitars and drums since the mid-80s, a work for a 70-piece brass ...
Rhys Chatham & Z'EV by Rhys Chatham & Z'EV, released 15 February 2024 1. 1 2. 2 Rhys Chatham : trumpet in B flat, transverse flute in C, alto and bass flutes, electric guitar Z'EV : Yamaha DTXPRESS, 16-bit AWM2 A collaboration between Rhys Chatham and Z’EV which we are surprised that it is so late as their lives have crossed, and which grabs us musically with its prescient aspect…
Rhys Chatham Short bio. Rhys Chatham Short bio. Rhys Chatham was born in Manhattan in 1952. He came under the musical influence of his father, Price, a harpsichordist, and became a devotee of the work of early music composers such as Giles Farnaby and John Bull, playing their music on a virginal. Switching to baroque and Boehm flute, he soon ...
