Rhys Chatham

Rhys Chatham ( born September 19, 1952 in New York) is an American composer and musician (guitar and trumpet).

Chatham is the second generation of post- minimalism, which is also called totalitarianism attributed. This direction continued the minimalist music of the 1960s and 1970s; her mark is a significant increase compared to the rhythmic and tonal complexity in an otherwise repetitive arrangement structure. Chatham was known primarily for his fusions between rock music and minimalist elements, and later for his improvisational works for solo trumpet.

Life and career

Chatham had already been introduced as a teenager in the scene around the American minimalism and worked as a piano tuner for composers such as La Monte Young. Already at the age of 19 he became music director of the alternative culture center at The Kitchen in Manhattan. At the same time he was a student of Morton Subotnick and Tony Conrad. During this period he created his first compositions, which were heavily influenced by minimalism. In the following period, he also worked with musicians from the alternative rock scene such as Brian Eno, together.

1977 there was a turning point in his career when he met with the burgeoning punk rock scene and especially the representatives of the genre known as No Wave ( which he presented with Keshavan Maslak on the Moers Festival 1981). From then on, its activities focused on mergers between rock music and minimal music. His most famous work to date, Guitar Trio for three electric guitars, was created in 1978. The piece experiments with the feedback sounds of guitars, repeat the entire length of the piece (30 minutes) only a single tone ever. The late 1970s and early 1980s he experimented with large electric guitar orchestras in works like Drastic Classicism and The Gods of Thunder (both 1982).

In 1983 he began to play the trumpet, and focused in the following years on this instrument. In the 1990s he mixed in numerous compositions beats of different directions of electronic dance music (especially Jungle and Drum and Bass ) with improvisational and alienated by feedback effects trumpet solos. These works also found in the commercial electronic scene input and was published in part on the label Ninja Tune.

In 2005, he composed for the Nuit Blanche festival in the city of Paris, the piece A Crimson Grail for 400 electric guitars. In the following years he toured with the original version of Guitar Trio by Europe and North America. These actions led to a resurgence of his popularity in the second half of the 2000s.

Performances ' G3 in Europe '

  • Desgressions Festival - March 7, 2007, Barcelona, ​​Spain
  • L' Ecole Regionale de Beaux Arts - 25, 26 April, 2007, Valence, France
  • Cosmic Club - August 10, 2007, Oslo, Norway
  • ZXZW Independent Culture Festival - 22, 23 September, 2007, Tilburg, The Netherlands
  • Soy Festival - October 29, 2007, Nantes, France
  • Galleria Toledo - March 26, 2008, are pale, Italy
  • State -X festival - December 12, 2008, The Hague, Netherlands

Discography

  • Factor X ( LP), Moers Music 1983. Contents: For Brass (1982 ), Guitar Ring (1982 ), The Out Of Tune Guitar (1982 ), Cadenza (1981 )
  • The Gods of Thunder (LP), Dossier Records / Homestead Records in 1987. Contents: The Gods of Thunder ( 1984-86 ), Waterloo No. 2 (1986) Guitar Trio (1977 ), Drastic Classicism (1982 )
  • Neon (12 " CDEP ), Ntone 1997 collaboration with Martin Wheeler. Contents: Charm ( 1996), Ramatek (1994 ), Hornithology (1996 ), Neon (1993 )
  • Septiles (12 ", CD EP), Ntone 1997 ( collaboration with Jonathan Kane and DJ Elated System)
  • Hard Edge, The Wire Editions 1999 ( collaboration with Pat Thomas, Gary Smith, Gary Jeff, Lou Ciccotelli )
  • A Rhys Chatham Compendium (CD), Table of the Elements 2002. Contents: An Angel Moves Too Fast To See (1989) [ edit ] Guitar Trio (1977) [ Edit] Drastic Classicism (1982) [ edit ] Two Gongs (1971) [ Edit] Cetet Guitar (1977 ) [Bonus track], Waterloo, no. 2 (1986) [ Edit] The Gods of Thunder (1985) [ Original Version]
  • An Angel Moves Too Fast To See ( Selected Works 1971-1989 ) (3 CD box ), Table of the Elements 2002 CD 1: Two Gongs (1971 )
  • CD 2: The Gods of Thunder (1985 ), Waterloo, no. 2 (1986 ), Drastic Classicism (1982 ), Guitar Trio (1977 ), Massacre on MacDougal Street ( 1982)
  • CD 3: An Angel Moves Too Fast To See (1989)
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