Keith Rowe - Prepared Guitar


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]







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Uploaded: July 13, 2006 at 6:42 am
Author: evilpaul

Length: 00:09:35
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MacabreTurtle (December 3, 2008 at 8:06 am)
This kind of stuff is really fun to do. But I don't like to do what he does and potential hurt the guitar. I just think it's really cool, to just put your guitar in a low drop tuning, sit it down, turn every knob on your amp, and every knob on your effects all the way up, then just flick an open powerchord and play aimlessly with your effects. Wonderful.
SnowyOwl1959 (November 28, 2008 at 4:41 am)
what a pseudo jerk!...where's the beauty of human expression in this?...i hear none of it...there is NO substance in this junk..all of you who think so should wake up
uberkelly (November 27, 2008 at 2:16 am)
keith rowe is incredible.
shwilly (November 21, 2008 at 3:02 pm)
I like some of the sounds but the whole "reflecting something about the world" talk is just too much...

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