Keith Rowe - Prepared Guitar

Legendary innovator, UK ’tabletop’ guitarist Keith Rowe has explored the guitar as a primary source of pure sound, extending it with an array of objects and bric-a-brac, for more than 30 years. Keith Rowe is probably best known for his groundbreaking work with AMM and the SCRATCH ORCHESTRA. “Twanging ruler-shaped objects set off a cartoon style jiggling tremolo, a block of foam causes mountainous scuffling one man sound lab and dub studio formed out of a corner hardware shop..“[The Wire June 1999]