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Rhys Chatham's Guitar Trio
“Hi. My name is Rhys. I'm a classically-trained composer from New York. I was born in Greenwich Village in Manhattan. And yes, this is really me. I'm not dead yet. At least not the last time I took my pulse.”
That’s how, very dryly and humorously, guitarist and trumpeter Rhys Chatham describes himself on his Myspace page, because this guy really doesn’t need to artificially inflate his ego. A student of minimalism guru La Monte Young and concert producer for, among others, Steve Reich, Pauline Oliveros, Fred Firth and Philipp Glass, he came to find it too boring in the legendary New York “Kitchen” in the mid-70s to only provide technical support for other people’s performances. He discovered the Ramones and his love of punky guitar music, became a pioneer for no-wave/post-punk greats, such as Glenn Barca or Thurston Moore, and over the years expanded his legendary 1977 rock-meets-avant-garde piece for numerous electric guitars, electric bass and drums, titled “Guitar Trio”, into ever more gigantic compositions for up to 400 guitars, which as part of a tour in 2007 he performed with local musicians of bands like Sonic Youth, Hüsker Dü, Goodspeed You! Black Emperor or Tortoise. In Krems, he will perform the original version, against the backdrop of the corresponding “Pictures for Music” (1979) of renowned fine artist Robert Longo with support from Ben Frost, David Daniell, local guitar heroes Martin Siewert, Burkhard Stangl, Roland Rathmair, Manfred Engelmayr and drummer Didi Kern.
www.myspace.com/rhyschatham
