Keith Rowe by Keith Rowe
In London, in the fall of 1965, a group of four musicians dissatisfied with the constrictions they had encountered in the British jazz scene, came together with a highly thought-out agenda to revolutionise the way music was created, rejecting rules firmly in place then (and still today) among even the most forward-looking of musicians: no repertoire, no fear of silence, 100% improvised. Keith Rowe was one of the founding members. Over 12 years in the making and via exhaustive research and interviews Brian Olewnick has traced Rowe's life from childhood to the present.
Olewnick, Brian: - Brian Olewnick is a new-music writer and visual artist. He helped run the avant-garde jazz loft Environ from 1976-1980 and was eventually seduced into writing about contemporary music in various forms from jazz to modern classical, free-improvisation, and beyond. He has written for All Music Guide, The Wire, Time-Out New York, and other publications in addition to his blog, Just Outside, one of the principal sites for analysis of new music, where he has published over 2,000 reviews since 2006. He has given talks on the craft of writing about contemporary music in Philadelphia, Vü¾†”¼sterü¾–”¼s, Sweden, and Sokolowska, Poland. He lives with his wife, Betsy, in Kinderhook, New York. Keith Rowe (b. 1940, Plymouth, England) is an improvising guitarist and electronicist. He is a founding member of the ensemble AMM (1965), a group combining aspects of avant-garde jazz and post-Cageian contemporary music and one of the most influential and revolutionary musical ensembles of the past 50 years. AMM drastically revised what was possible in music and stripped much baggage from the existing form, doing away with stars, solos, and even the necessity to play anything at all!Their influence has been felt from rock (early Pink Floyd and Yoko Ono, to Sonic Youth, David Sylvian, and beyond) to classical (Christian Wolff and Merce Cunningham through the Wandelweiser school). His conceptual and technical advances have been adopted by scores of musicians through the years while he continues to move on into uncharted territory in recorded works, interactions with videographers and dancers, graphic art, and more. He has appeared on over 200 recordings and has been the subject of several exhibitions documenting both his sound and visual artwork. He lives with his wife, Stephanie, in Clisson, France.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781576878644 |
| ISBN 10 | 1576878643 |
| Title | Keith Rowe |
| Author | Keith Rowe |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | powerHouse Books,U.S. |
| Year published | 2018-06-26 |
| Number of pages | 500 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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