200 Guitars
200 guitars and no rain this weekend?
Liquid Liquid
Rhys Chatham: A Crimson Grail for 200 Electric Guitars
For club-music mavens, the return of New York’s seminal breakbeat artistes Liquid Liquid is a reminder that in the beginning freestyle dancers romped and stomped to the rhythms of percussionists…
Akron/Family played APW (video), playing Other Music, conducting 200 guitars & other 2009 tour dates
Akron/Family @ All Points West Sunday (more by Chris La Putt)APW Day Three: MOST AWKWARD ATTEMPT AT CROWD PARTICIPATION
“We like fun,” Akron/Family’s Miles Seaton yelled…
Lincoln Center Out of Doors 2009 lineup - another attempt at Rhys Chatham's 200 Electric Guitars included
Lincoln Center Damrosch Park bandshell – August 2008 (miro.m)This year’s Lincoln Center Out of Doors (LCOOD), three weeks of FREE music and dance on the plazas of Lincoln Center, will run from August 5 through August 23…
Gottsching, Rhys Chatham & zero guitars @ Damrosch - pics
Göttsching
“Alright I’m going to be the first to chime in here – how about telling us it was cancelled before sitting through an hour of gottsching…
Rhys Chatham & 200 guitars is tonight ++ pics from rehearsal
Rhys Chatham: A Crimson Grail (2008) for 200 Electric Guitars (Outdoor Version) (World Premiere)
Commissioned by Lincoln Center for Lincoln Center Out of Doors
Next, composer Rhys Chatham and section leaders John King, Ned Sublette, David Daniell, and Seth Olinsky (Akron/Family) lead an oversized orchestra of 200 volunteer guitarists and electric bassists in the world premiere of A Crimson Grail for 200 Electric Guitars (Outdoor Version) performed not on the Bandshell stage but along the sides of the audience at Damrosch Park, to heighten the work’s polyphonic effect…
