I’ll be part of a gigantic minimalist piece for 200 guitars, A Crimson Grail by Rhys Chatham at Lincoln Center in New York City on Friday August 15. The piece was originally scored for and performed by 400 guitars, but this outdoor take should still be fairly impressive.
The piece is very expansive and meditative, waves of sympathetic tuned guitars taking on a choir like voice. Really quite beautiful – less jarring and noisy than Glenn Branca‘s fantastic SYMPHONY NO. 13 (Hallucination City) for 100 guitars I played in at the LA Philharmonic in 2006.