Bodies Electric
John Chang, Martin Moretto, Taro Morino, Adam Negrin
Bodies Electric is an electric guitar choir based in New York City that is dedicated to the performance of new music. BE was formed when guitarist/composer William Anderson wrote three pieces for an electric guitar quartet featuring his formal students from the Queens College guitar program who remained friends and continued to play music together after graduation. Since then, BE has built a growing repertoire of new music that bridges the gap between classical, rock, jazz and world music, combining expressive nuance--highly precise shifts in volume and tone quality, long, arching phrases of classical music with the energy of rock music, as well as integrating improvisation into it's performance. BE has performed at venues such as Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall, The Stone, Corelia Street Café, Bargemusic, Warebrook Contemporary Music Festival, African Art Museum in Tenafly, concerts at Queens College, LaGuardia Community College, and Sarah Lawrence College to name a few.
Bodies Electric is an electric guitar choir based in New York City that is dedicated to the performance of new music. BE was formed when guitarist/composer William Anderson wrote three pieces for an electric guitar quartet featuring his formal students from the Queens College guitar program who remained friends and continued to play music together after graduation. Since then, BE has built a growing repertoire of new music that bridges the gap between classical, rock, jazz and world music, combining expressive nuance--highly precise shifts in volume and tone quality, long, arching phrases of classical music with the energy of rock music, as well as integrating improvisation into it's performance. BE has performed at venues such as Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall, The Stone, Corelia Street Café, Bargemusic, Warebrook Contemporary Music Festival, African Art Museum in Tenafly, concerts at Queens College, LaGuardia Community College, and Sarah Lawrence College to name a few.
Related Albums
Ab nou cor
Frank Brickle
Composer Frank Brickle, winner of a 2010 NEA Artistic Excellence award, is featured on this disc with a spectrum of works written for and performed by the Cygnus Ensemble, joined by sopranos Haleh Abghari and Elizabeth Farnum.
Preview: Ab nou cor:
