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Keith Rowe - Prepared Guitar

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Legendary innovator, UK 'tabletop' guitarist Keith Rowe has explored the guitar as a primary source of pure sound, extending it with an array of objects and bric-a-brac, for more than 30 years. Keith Rowe is probably best known for his groundbreaking work with AMM and the SCRATCH ORCHESTRA. "Twanging ruler-shaped objects set off a cartoon style jiggling tremolo, a block of foam causes mountainous scuffling booms...A one man sound lab and dub studio formed out of a corner hardware shop.."[The Wire June 1999]

Channel: Music
Uploaded: July 12, 2006 at 11:42 pm
Author: evilpaul

Length: 0:09:35
Rating: 4.75
Views: 24,140

Tags: subsonics experimental music noise guitar Keith Rowe

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Video Comments:
shwilly (Friday 21st of November 2008 07:02:52 AM)
I like some of the sounds but the whole "reflecting something about the world" talk is just too much...
maxellison55 (Thursday 30th of October 2008 08:17:41 PM)
Absolutely the most asinine thing I have ever watched. It simply is noise!
FQFspooky (Friday 7th of November 2008 06:46:20 PM)
Then you miss the point of it. Its a reaction to popular music, the antagonist to the industry, and violates all that is called "music". Much as the surrealists did with art, who can say, what IS music. It is created for you to call it noise.
maxellison55 (Friday 7th of November 2008 09:22:57 PM)
It is a load of bu((shite you are pedaling and trying to call it provocative. It's still an old man plinking at the strings with bits of rubbish and calling it music. My dog's tail wagging against my Gibson ES 335 strings has more musicality then this tripe!
sorryBummerlin (Sunday 9th of November 2008 01:29:26 PM)
Life simply is noise. You walk down a city street, or you're in a crowded restaurant, you process sound much more cacophonous than this. If you were watching a film or some other engaging visual for which this sound was appropriate, you'd never realize it. People are capable of being seduced by sounds far more complex than you give them credit for. It's all in the context, friend.
Turbodiamantenboy (Monday 20th of October 2008 05:39:13 AM)
This hasn't left my iPod for months...
SaleemElbaloula (Tuesday 21st of October 2008 01:41:28 PM)
Rofl made me burst out rofl!
zsector (Wednesday 20th of August 2008 12:07:19 PM)
before you down thumb me, let me just tell you that I like this stuff. but I wonder, is this guy actually good at playing the guitar conventionally? Because I know I started dabbling in noise making when I was having trouble early on when playing.
BulbousAlsoTapered (Friday 22nd of August 2008 06:09:51 PM)
zsector wonders: "is this guy actually good at playing the guitar conventionally?". Why does nobody ever ask whether Segovia could play "Sweet Home Alabama", or whether Hendrix had some Bavarian folk tunes in his repertoire? Keith Rowe is not "dabbling in noise making" - he invented a new approach to playing guitar, and has developed this style for 4 decades. According to Wikipedia, he started as a jazz guitarist until he recognised that "trying to play guitar like Jim Hall seemed quite wrong."
adamg709 (Sunday 28th of September 2008 11:03:11 AM)
Well - how about this - making sounds on an instrument is 'playing' an instrument. Think of me as a zen master. Or not.