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The Alternative Guitar Festival
The Alternative Guitar Festival
$20
The Alternative Guitar Festival is a yearly confluence of some of the most unusual, creative guitarists of our time. The artists cross all style and genre. This year's line up features a rare appearance by the great Wolfgang Muthspiel from Austria, in his first NYC performance in many years.
$20 for the whole night
8pm to 11 pm
Thurs., Feb. 21: Alternative Guitar festival #3
Outside-the-box six-stringers convene for an off-center celebration.
Joel Harrison Presents Year Three of the Alternative Guitar Festival, dedicated to all things guitar, especially music that cannot be categorized or readily sold.
Featuring: Wolfgang Muthspiel (from Vienna), Elliott Sharp Guitar Trio (with a new piece inspired by Gyorgy Ligeti and Terry Riley), Brandon Seabrook Trio, Andrew McKenna Lee (solo guitar and laptop), and Joel Harrison's "1970" with Rudy Royston and Jerome Harris.
Elliott Sharp will present the premiere of Ile Tigre Lily, a tribute to Gyorgy Ligeti and Terry Reilly, two composers who were high among the pantheon of E#'s key influences. Ile Tigre Lily is composed for three electric guitars and will be performed by E# with Cristian Amigo and Angela Babin. It will be an algorithmic composition that mixes both predetermined material with instruction sets for the players. E# has worked with such systems for many years and there are links to methods employed by both Ligeti and Reilly.
Brandon Seabrook, feat. Johnny Deblase (bass), and Allison Miller (drums) will play new songs for guitar trio influenced by the work of Marty Friedman and Captain Beefheart.
Guitarist and composer Andrew McKenna Lee performs his "Sunrise from the Bottom of the Sea" a psychedelic homage to Jimi Hendrix for solo electric guitar and electronics as well as other smaller works for solo nylon string guitar.
Joel Harrison will perform three brief pieces from his 1970 Project, which is dedicated to radical re-compositions of songs written in that watershed year, where jazz, rock, country, psychedelia, and minimalist new music were careening into simultaneous convection.
Muthspiel will perform improvisations on solo guitar, partially using loops. Early influences of classical music and later influences of improvisation and jazz will be equally present.
Quotes:
"Wolfgang Muthspiel is a shining light of the contemporary jazz-guitar generation."The New Yorker
"A natural virtuoso. On the electric guitar he can produce sounds as light and nimble as a harp's; Partly composed and partly improvised, his pieces included homages to Stravinsky, his jazz colleague Paul Motian and the Beatles." The New York Times
Andrew McKenna Lee has been d escribed as "an astoundingly virtuosic guitar player... and far more importantly a thoughtful and original composer," (Jayson Greene, eMusic) Andrew McKenna Lee's music has been commissioned and programmed by ensembles and organizations including the Brentano String Quartet, eighth blackbird, Kroumata, Concert Artists Guild, the American Composers Orchestra, the New Jersey Symphony, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
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It was a concert that posited instrument as inspiration: the physicality of the instruments was at the heart of the music."
John Pareles New York Times reviewing AGF #2
Brandon Seabrook:
New York's Best Guitarist: Village Voice 2012
"Thrillingly disorienting: JazzTimes
Elliot Sharp:
" An avant-garde, mad-scientist, guitarist supreme, who also plays soulful blues and composes with enormous originality and skill."
Allmusic
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18 Whitwell Place
Brooklyn, NY 11215
United States
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