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21st Century Guitar: Evolutions and Augmentations

Editat de Dr. Richard Perks, Dr. John McGrath
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 24 iul 2024
In the 21st Century, the guitar, as both a material object and tool for artistic expression, continues to be reimagined and reinvented. From simple adaptations or modifications made by performers themselves, to custom-made instruments commissioned to fulfil specific functions, to the mass production of new lines of commercially available instruments, the extant and emergent forms of this much-loved musical instrument vary perhaps more than ever before. As guitars sporting multiple necks, a greater number of strings, and additional frets become increasingly common, so too do those with reduced registers, fewer strings, and fretless fingerboards. Furthermore, as we approach the mark of the first quarter-century, the role of technology in relation to the guitar's protean nature is proving key, from the use of external effects units to synergies with computers and AR headsets. Such wide-ranging evolutions and augmentations of the guitar reflect the advancing creative and expressive needs of the modern guitarist and offer myriad new affordances.21st Century Guitar examines the diverse physical manifestations of the guitar across the modern performative landscape through a series of essays and interviews. Academics, performers and dual-practitioners provide significant insights into the rich array of guitar-based performance practices emerging and thriving in this century, inviting a reassessment of the guitar's identity, physicality and sound-creating possibilities.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781501373336
ISBN-10: 1501373331
Pagini: 296
Ilustrații: 104 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Caracteristici

Contributes to the wider discourse surrounding instrumental development, the benefits and/or limitations of technological enhancement, and subsequent commercial production.

Notă biografică

Richard Perks is a guitarist, composer and lecturer in music performance at the University of Kent, UK. His research interests include the combination of composition with improvisation, inter-cultural collaborations, the extended performance possibilities of the fretless electric guitar, and popular musicology/analysis (guitar-focused). He was recently awarded a research grant to explore the fretless guitar scene of West-Asia and his latest publications have addressed modern-day guitar performance. John McGrath is a guitarist, musicologist and lecturer in music at University of Surrey, UK, which is home to the International Guitar Research Centre (IGRC). Recent publications include Samuel Beckett, Repetition and Modern Music (2018) and contributions to The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music Video Analysis (Bloomsbury, 2019) and Transmedia Directors (Bloomsbury, 2020).

Cuprins

ContributorsAcknowledgementsForewordIntroduction Richard Perks and John McGrath1. The Well-Tuned Guitar John Schneider2. Transforming the Microtonal Fingerboard: 'Small' Frets, LEGO and Robots - Interview with Tolgahan Çogulu Richard Perks3. The Expanding Fretless Guitarscape: Practice and Progress Richard Perks4. Touching the Apple Without Gloves - Interview with Cenk Erdogan Richard Perks5. Extended Range Instruments: Towards a New Organology of the GuitarTom Williams6. I Should Have Just Learned How to Play the Organ - Interview with Charlie HunterRichard Perks7. The Transformed Space of the Ligeti GuitarKatalin Koltai8. Grains, Glitches and Infinite Space: Guitar Effects Pedals, Digitization and Textural Guitar AestheticsRobert Strachan9. The Sonic Maelstrom - Interview with Nels ClineJohn McGrath10. "Something Seems Wrong, Should That Be Happening?": Avantfolk Guitar and Glitch Aesthetics, a Practice-Based PerspectiveJohn McGrath11. A Field of Reactivity: Moog Guitar and Experimental Systems - Interview with Bill ThompsonJohn McGrath12. The Digital Fretboard: Remapping and Relearning the Guitar's Pitch Matrix with MIDI and Max/MSPMilton Mermikides13. Augmented Reality Guitars: Extended Instruments and Notation for a 21st Century PracticeAmy BrandonIndex

Recenzii

The thing about the guitar is that it has to be constantly re-imagined, de-constructed, then re-constructed if it is to continue to be a vital force in music's future landscapes. '21st Century Guitar' is the new grimoire in this quest for the instrument's ongoing reinventions.
This important collection combines rigorous scholarship with knowledge gained from practical experience involving a wide range of musical explorations, from microtonal music to the use of augmented reality - a welcome and significant contribution to the literature on the guitar.