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The essay is not directly related to the guitar and electronics, but offers some fundamental considerations on questions of space and resonance, which can be the starting point for concert formats, compositions or one's own performative practice.
Tom Smith describes an exemplary draft of what his approach to a dynamic relationship between guitarist and software might look like.
In his third text, Tom Smith provides further impulses for thinking about the topic.

Doctoral thesis in portuguese (2020). Extensive, fairly recent work, also includes female composers. With lists of works from 1960 to 2018.
Database with over 41,000 entries on new music guitar works. Extensive search options.





guitaristic cyborgs



︎Works for Guitar and Electronic




GUITARISTIC CYBORGS is an ongoing research on works for guitar and electronics by ︎Jannis Wichmann and Tom Smith. 
You can find here ︎work presentations and a collection of resources on the subject of guitar and electronics.

What ist true for composition alone is even stronger when it is combined with electronics: The field is white and cis-male dominated for structural rather than quality reasons. Therefore we always try to focus on works by female composers and consider structural discriminations.

GUITARISTIC CYBORGS is fundamentally open to collaboration and cooperation, and will stay non-commercial.




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