§ Prepared Guitar Library - Prepared Guitar

### Academic publications - [[Butler 2000 Prepared Instruments in Improvised Music]] - [[Haenisch 2013 Materiality and Agency in Improvisation]] - [[Bunger 1981 The Well-Prepared Piano]] - Riggs, Christopher. 2012. “Sweet Spot of Potential: The Prepared Guitar of Christopher Riggs.” Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University. ### Books - [[Olewnick 2018 Keith Rowe The Room Extended]] - [[Hopkin & Landman 2014 Nice Noise]] - [[Elgart & Yates 2020 Prepared Guitar Techniques]] - [[Schneider 1985 The Contemporary Guitar]] - [[Cobussen 2017 The Field Of Musical Improvisation]] - [[Frengel 2017 The Unorthodox Guitar]] - [[Perks 2023 21st Century Guitar]] - Schneider, John. 2015. _The Contemporary Guitar_. Revised and Enlarged edition. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield. - Josel, Seth, and Ming Tsao. 2014. _The Techniques of Guitar Playing_. Kassel: Bärenreiter. ### Interviews - [[Aguzzi 2021 47 Years after Fred Frith's Guitar Solos]] - [[Malfatti & Rowe 2011 Malfatti Rowe Interview]] - [[De Asís 2018 Es basicamente escuchar lo que hago, más que tocar]] - [[Duvall 2013 Ex-Easter Island Head Have Mastered the Art of Beating Guitars with Mallets]] - [[Frith 1998 Fred Frith interview by Dan Warburton]] - [[Ewen 2011 Sandy Ewen Interview by Ramon Medina]] - [[Ewen 2008 Soundscraping The Weird Weeds Untangle]] - [[Ewen 2012 ugEXPLODE Musicians Mary Halvorson, Jessica Pavone, Ava Mendoza, Sandy Ewen...]] - [[Rowe 2007 Interview with Keith Rowe by Josh Ronsen]] - [[Rowe 2001 Keith Rowe Interview By Dan Warburton]] - [[Rowe 2009 Keith Rowe One Bird Flying Through Interview by John Eyles]] - [[Horist 2013 Bill Horist 13 Questions Interview by Miguel Copon]] - [[De Asís 2014 Clara de Asis 13 Questions Interview by Miguel Copon]] - [[Fenech 2015 David Fenech 13 Questions Interview by Miguel Copon]] - [[Toop 2014 David Toop 13 questions Interview by Miguel Copon]] - [[Perales 2015 Fernando Perales 13 Questions Interview by Miguel Copon]] - [[Frith 2014 Fred Frith 13 Questions Interview by Miguel Copon]] - [[Kawabata 2014 Makoto Kawabata 13 questions Interview by Miguel Copon]] - [[Hall 2015 G P Hall 13 Questions Interview by Miguel Copon]] - [[Tammen 2014 Hans Tammen 13 Questions Interview by Miguel Copon]] - [[Rowe 2014 Keith Rowe 13 questions Interview by Miguel Copón]] - [[Hein 2016 Nicola L. Hein 13 Questions Interview by Miguel Copon]] - [[Ewen 2014 Sandy Ewen 13 Questions Interview by Miguel Copón]] - [[Fields 2013 Scott Fields 13 Questions Interview by Miguel Copon]] - [[Isohata 2014 Shin’ichi Isohata 13 Questions Interview by Miguel Copon]] - [[Parry 2014 Steve Parry Hwyl Nofio 13 Questions Interview by Miguel Copon]] - [[Westerhus 2014 Stian Westerhus 13 questions Interview by Miguel Copón]] - [[Frith 2016 Sound Views – Fred Frith Interview Interview by Thomas Mangano]] - [[Moderne 2017 Spotlight Nicola Hein Guitar Moderne]] - [[Moderne 2017 Spotlight Reid Karris Guitar Moderne]] - - [[Feder 2016 Janet Feder Prepared for All Genres Interview By Joe Bosso]] - [[Horist 2004 Sick Strings Interview by Dave Segal]] - [[Rowe 2020 Keith Rowe with Todd B Gruel]] - _Fred Frith on Hans Reichel_. 1987. [http://archive.org/details/FrithOnReichel91787](http://archive.org/details/FrithOnReichel91787). - _Guitar Moderne - David Toop Interview_. 2020. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nS1FtT095-M](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nS1FtT095-M). - Moderne, Guitar. 2018. “Spotlight: James Moore (Part I) | Guitar Moderne.” _Guitar Moderne_ (blog). 2018. [https://www.guitarmoderne.com/artists/spotlight-james-moore-part-i](https://www.guitarmoderne.com/artists/spotlight-james-moore-part-i). - “Amm’s Keith Rowe Interview & Music 3rd and Last Episode. Tuesday 27/05 at 8 PM.” n.d. Radio Panik. Accessed September 21, 2021. [https://www.radiopanik.org/actus/amm-s-keith-rowe-interview-music-3rd-and-last-episode-tuesday-27-05-at-8-pm](https://www.radiopanik.org/actus/amm-s-keith-rowe-interview-music-3rd-and-last-episode-tuesday-27-05-at-8-pm). - Immix Ensemble, dir. 2016. _Immix Ensemble: Ex-Easter Island Head - In Conversation - 2016_. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfYZrE7LtPw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfYZrE7LtPw). ### Video - [[Hopkins 2013 Amplified Gesture]] - [[Burnett 2021 What is Man and What is Guitar?]] - Center for New Music, dir. 2020. _FRED FRITH & SUDHU TEWARI: PROTOTYPES II_. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uc7zs3rmQ9Q](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uc7zs3rmQ9Q). - IMPA TV, dir. 2016. _Perspectives on the Prepared Guitar a Lecture and Workshop by Ex-Easter Island Head_. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8FPwvQrQac](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8FPwvQrQac). - New Music USA, dir. 2014. _Susan Alcorn: Fearless Slides_. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkR_GsyGs24](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkR_GsyGs24). - ARCHIVES-LIVE Ben Lx, dir. 2020. _David Fenech 10/10/20 Paris, Espace Topographie de L’art_. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2H0Q2IrLPc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2H0Q2IrLPc). - boerm, dir. 2009. _Three Fragments of Improvised Guitar by Fred Frith (2009)_. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFhy1ISTp5w](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFhy1ISTp5w). - Bradford Reed, dir. 2020. _Bradford Reed : The Pencilina_. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8kHvaPjYU0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8kHvaPjYU0). - Clara de Asís, dir. 2016. _Clara de Asís - Prepared Guitar @ L’Embobineuse (FR)_. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrW-xX2tF_8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrW-xX2tF_8). - ———, dir. 2021. _Clara de Asís / The Desert Is a Sea_. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVQuHyur10U](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVQuHyur10U). - Collective, Octopus, dir. 2018. _Ex-Easter Island Head - Prepared Guitar Workshop at FoN 4.5_. [https://vimeo.com/274904927](https://vimeo.com/274904927). - Dan Phelps, dir. 2017. _Experimental and Noise Rock Guitar Techniques_. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RYQdJ7IMKU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RYQdJ7IMKU). - Dominic Frasca, dir. 2012. _Fixations Part 1_. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qV4k4j-AYrs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qV4k4j-AYrs). - Don Mount, dir. 2017. _Nicola Hein - Solo Guitar - at Downtown Music Gallery, NYC - March 26 2017_. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeMtEFTHxUU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeMtEFTHxUU). - ———, dir. 2018. _Nicola Hein - Solo Guitar - Spectrum, Brooklyn - March 2018_. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jILJTVF1W80](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jILJTVF1W80). - EigenKino, dir. 2011. _David Stackenäs Solo @ Inage Candy_. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkJmcE0Y96I](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkJmcE0Y96I). - “Ex-Easter Island Head (@exeih) • Instagram Photos and Videos.” n.d.-a. Accessed September 26, 2021. [https://www.instagram.com/exeih/](https://www.instagram.com/exeih/). - Experimental Sound Studio, dir. 2018. _OPTION: Sandy Ewen (Excerpt)_. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXwgUkhuSJU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXwgUkhuSJU). - Frith, Fred. 2007. “Workshop at Output Festival.” Amsterdam, September 28. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hBgWdV4U40](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hBgWdV4U40). - ISLAND Instruments, dir. 2016. _Nicola Hein Plays ISLAND Instruments 44 at 2015 Holy Grail Guitar Show, Berlin_. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22j-16PHncY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22j-16PHncY). - Jamie Drouin, dir. 2012. _SOUNDS IN A ROOM 16 - Lance Austin Olsen_. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEMKoR_9Qyo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEMKoR_9Qyo). - JazzAndMoreFestival, dir. 2013. _Scott Fields @ Jazz&More Festival 2011_. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWvwzPIZut8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWvwzPIZut8). - John Jansen, dir. 2020. _Hans Reichel 1986 - Watching the Shades (I)_. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lpdVAiJrec](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lpdVAiJrec). - _Komponist med gitar_. 2019. [https://tv.nrk.no/program/FTEM00001671](https://tv.nrk.no/program/FTEM00001671). - Lessonface, dir. 2014. _Prepared Guitar with Duane Denison_. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEoD3w_DfK4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEoD3w_DfK4). - Mattias IA Eklundh, dir. 2013. _Mattias IA Eklundh - Musth_. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSRgkdoK19A](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSRgkdoK19A). - MyMusicMasterclass, dir. 2015. _David Tronzo - Slide and Prepared Guitar Masterclass_. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPmE9aWwGvs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPmE9aWwGvs). - nikita koshkin, dir. 2020. _Nikita Koshkin - Piece With Clocks_. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2BSe0jtzR4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2BSe0jtzR4). - nikoladze, dir. 2016. _Koka’s Rotary Magnetic Bow_. [https://vimeo.com/160780036](https://vimeo.com/160780036). - Paul Harless, dir. 2023. _Sandy Ewen at Rhizome DC_. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eWCcG6sOYc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eWCcG6sOYc). - Phantom Orchestra, dir. 2022. _Phantom Orchestra - Andrea Neumann_. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zByEqvLDZyY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zByEqvLDZyY). - poptiny, dir. 2021. _Bill Nace - Live at the Free Library of Philadelphia_. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b77ejPFlGMk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b77ejPFlGMk). - _Prepared Guitar - Pareidolia Performance_. n.d. Accessed September 22, 2021. [https://vimeo.com/239964788](https://vimeo.com/239964788). - ROOM40, dir. 2022. _Zimoun - Guitar Studies_. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJQ3Y-KXb9I](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJQ3Y-KXb9I). - Shane Parish, dir. 2010. _Ahleuchatistas - Vanished_. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D06Tb01Pe8k](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D06Tb01Pe8k). - Shankara Andy Bole, dir. 2019. _The Glissando Guitar Orchestra - Birmingham May 18th 2013_. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VlQ3FI61co](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VlQ3FI61co). - Sleeper, Huw Webb and Clint, dir. 2013. _Wank Terms for Prepared Guitar_. [https://vimeo.com/71622647](https://vimeo.com/71622647). - Space, Tarrying, dir. 2011. _Power of Making: Keith Rowe and a Geography of Objects_. [https://vimeo.com/27117055](https://vimeo.com/27117055). - TheGuitarPlaya, dir. 2007. _Awesome Guitarist Dominic Frasca_. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdRGXNWEp0Q](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdRGXNWEp0Q). - van daale, dir. 2008. _Keith Rowe. Live 2001._ [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eb-GPdnfbyI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eb-GPdnfbyI). - Bart Hopkin, dir. 2024. _Frets, Slides and Tangents_. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcRki8uaPEg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcRki8uaPEg). - Binkbeats, the slinky spring. https://www.instagram.com/p/Bh6pudiFPSS/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== ### Audio - Rowe, Keith. 1990. _A Dimension of Perfectly Ordinary Reality_. Album. UK: Matchless Recordings. - Bailey, Derek. 1980. _Aida_. Album. UK: Incus Records. - Nace, Bill, and Sandy Ewen. 2019. _Bill Nace & Sandy Ewen - Live_. Saint Petersberg, Russia: Post-Materialization Music. [https://www.discogs.com/release/14563505-Bill-Nace-Sandy-Ewen-Live](https://www.discogs.com/release/14563505-Bill-Nace-Sandy-Ewen-Live). - Håvard, Volden, and Nakamura Toshimaru. 2008. _Crepuscular Rays_. Album. Another Timbre. [http://www.anothertimbre.com/crepuscularrays.html](http://www.anothertimbre.com/crepuscularrays.html). - Krebs, Annette. 2001. _Guitar Solo_. Album. Milan: Fringes Recordings. - Frith, Fred. 1974. _Guitar Solos_. Album. UK. - “Guitar Studies I-III, by Zimoun.” n.d. Room40. Accessed March 11, 2022. [https://room40.bandcamp.com/album/guitar-studies-i-iii](https://room40.bandcamp.com/album/guitar-studies-i-iii). - Rowe, Keith, Sandy Ewen, and Damon Smith. 2021. _Houston 2012 BPA 2CD2_. Album. St. Louis, MO: Balance Point Acoustics. [https://balancepointacoustics.bandcamp.com/album/houston-2012-bpa-2cd2](https://balancepointacoustics.bandcamp.com/album/houston-2012-bpa-2cd2). - Casswell, Rex. 2023. _Musicking_. Album. Glasgow, UK: scatterArchive. [https://scatterarchive.bandcamp.com/album/musicking](https://scatterarchive.bandcamp.com/album/musicking). - Steve Baczkowski, Chris Corsano, and Bill Nace. 2018. _Mystic Beings_. Album. Philadelphia, PA: Open Mouth Records. [https://openmouthrecords.bandcamp.com/album/mystic-beings](https://openmouthrecords.bandcamp.com/album/mystic-beings). - Ada Rave Trio. 2017. _The Sea, The Storm and the Full Moon_. Album. Amsterdam: Clean Feed Records. - Ewen, Sandy. 2020. _You Win_. US: Gilgongo Records. ### Web - [[Stubley nd Bailey Gallery European Free Improvisation Pages]] - [[Rowe nd Keith Rowe European Free Improvisation Pages]] - [[Landman 2008 From Experimental Punk to Ancient Chinese Music & the Universal Physical Laws of Consonance]] - [[Copon 2013 PREPARED GUITAR Keith Rowe Gear]] - [[Copon 2013 PREPARED GUITAR Keith Rowe Connotation Overkill]] - [[Reid 2015 Fred Frith Considered]] - [[Fiore 2015 Prepare Your Guitar Mutes Capos and Other Devices]] - [[Tripp 2007 Some New Noise Makers from OSM Laboratories]] - [[Tripp 2008 More Prepared Guitar]] - [[Smith 2016 Prepared Guitars Bizarre String Theories]] - [[Frengel n.d. The Unorthodox Guitar Companion website]] - [[Orangettecoleman 2009 Prepared Guitar Techniques]] - https://sun-13.com/2020/09/10/ex-easter-island-head-lodge-an-ambient-cascading-wall-of-sound/ ### Reviews - [[Kirk 2020 Ex-Easter Island Head Lodge]]