Has anyone on the list picked up Anthony Child (aka
Surgeon) & Andrew Read - Guitar Treatments (on K20)? I
haven't been able to find in the shops yet.
Here's a description I found:
"It was in the early nineteen-nineties, as members of
the avant-rock group Blim, that the guitarist and the
treater began constructing musical works using
electric guitar and the electronic treatments of the
sounds produced. A significant point came about the
day Frank Zappa died, when guitarist and treater
performed and produced `The Eagle', a piece of music
involving four tracks of slow, simple and sustained,
interwoven guitar lines, treated using a variety of
exotic effects. In light of this recording, it was
suggested that a future project should take place,
involving variations, far and wide, on this theme. As
events progressed, the guitarist and the treater
became separated physically, and time passed.
Eventually it was decided that a short, but intense
project should, and could take place, the result
of which you hold now. The pieces were constructed in
the same spirit, manner and framework as with the
earlier pieces, a key aspect being that the works were
split into two very distinct halves; those of guitar
and treatment, the 'sound' being separated into two
constituents, those of before and after it leaves the
electric guitar. The guitarist played the electric
guitar. Though he chose and produced the pitch and
duration of the individual notes, he was not involved
in any way with the `colour' of the notes, nor the
treatments applied to the notes. The treater treated
the electric guitar. Though he had no involvement with
the choice of pitch or duration, nor of the playing of
the individual guitar notes, he applied all the
treatment subsequent to each note being produced. In
many ways, due to the nature of the pieces, some being
ideas, though unheard and unpractised, and others
being purely improvisational, this `production'
involved the totality of composing, arranging,
playing, recording, treating and mixing. This
intensity of effort over the two days was expected,
was indeed planned, and it was welcomed. It was within
in the spirit."
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