The Video Gifts, Part 6

Jin Hi Kim, Korean-American composer and electric komungo player.



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The Video Gifts, Part 5

Steel pan player and composer Andy Akiho.



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The Video Gifts, Part 4

The selection below is from Bradley Fish, an Israeli/American guitarist who is here improvising on a Chinese guzheng.



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The Video Gifts, Part 3

This is Turkish theremin player Cihan Gulbudak, performing under the name Meczûp. You can also find him on Facebook and MySpace.



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The Video Gifts, Part 2

Here is a Danish guitarist influenced by Keith Rowe (shown in part 1). His name is Johan and his YouTube moniker is ThumbsAtWork.



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The Video Gifts

There are a whole bunch of videos out there in YouTube-land that I have fallen for in recent months. Some of them are professionally staged performances, some are living room performances. At least one is an audition tape. All of them are apparently single-take live recordings (even where the video is clearly edited, the audio appears to be a single performance).

Most of those I'm interested in are experimental music--but not all. The players are spread around the globe. If one thing unites them, in my mind at least, it is the need to reach an audience with a simple live performance. This seems a little ironic, given that the video is recorded and posted online. But that disconnect only serves to underline the effort they are making to reach an audience. And that's where we come in. The material generally is raw musical sound--not studio manufactured--and the intention is open and pure. We delight in the music as the musician delights in the music.

I'll present these in a series of posts over the coming weeks. First up is a find I shared with Facebook friends about a month ago, featuring Keith Rowe, pioneer of prepared guitar.




For those interested in learning more about Rowe's music, there's a wonderful video available with him talking about his music as a voiceover, with video of him performing.

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