guitaristic cyborgs

︎Resources / Blog

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︎= audio

︎ = website

︎ The Classical Guitar: presence, intimacy and resonance.

by Tom Smith
(substack.com)

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.

︎ Refraiming 1: liveness, interactivity and sympathetic transformations.

by Tom Smith
(substack.com)

In the text series “Refraiming”, Tom Smith lets us follow his approaches and reflections on the question of the relationship between performer (guitarist) and software.

︎ Refraiming 2: Hidden Influence.

by Tom Smith
(substack.com)

Tom Smith describes an exemplary draft of what his approach to a dynamic relationship between guitarist and software might look like.

︎ Refraiming 3: musings.

by Tom Smith
(substack.com)

In his third text, Tom Smith provides further impulses for thinking about the topic.

︎ Confetti.

by Tom Smith
(substack.com)

Confetti is an example of successful meaningful dialog with the computer and is based on a work by Rodrigo Constanzo. Tom Smith describes his approach with the software and gives audio examples.

︎Connect

by Jakob Bangsø
(spotify)

“The five composers behind these world premiere recordings, written for Jakob Bangsø, all share a keen interest in the field of electroacoustic music. Through live electronics, sound-transforming algorithms and interactive systems, CONNECT explores captivating soundscapes in the borderlands between the acoustic and the digital, the raw and the processed, the heard and the reheard – guitar and electronics are equal partners.”

︎ Repertorio para violao e electronica: Narrativas historicas, representacao, permenencia e performance

by Belquior Guerrero Santos Marques
(pdf)

Doctoral thesis in portuguese (2020). Extensive, fairly recent work, also includes female composers. With lists of works from 1960 to 2018.

︎ Sheerpluck - Database for contemporary guitar music

Database with over 41,000 entries on new music guitar works. Extensive search options.