And a belated happy birthday to #KeithRowe who was 86 on Monday of this week!

#NowPlaying Keith Rowe, Kjell Bjørgeengen - A Thought For Two CD (true blanking, 2024)

A lovely, intimate recording of Rowe (guitar, electronics, drawing) and Bjørgeengen (video, Dave Jones synthesizer), captured at Experimental Intermedia, New York City on 5 December 2010. The air comes alive with gently fizzing buzzes, the waves flit short or long, the walls awash with energy. And it’s all on a great label, too.

#ImprovisedMusic #Improvisation #ExperimentalMusic #KeithRowe #KjellBjørgeengen #TrueBlanking @improvisedmusic

https://trueblanking.bandcamp.com/album/a-thought-for-two

A Thought for Two, by Keith Rowe, Kjell Bjørgeengen

3 track album

true blanking

Ended the week and welcomed the rainy weekend with Fine by AMM, released in 2001 on Matchless Records.

Music for dance, by AMM. Recording of the concert given together with the dancer Fine Kwiatkowski at Musique Action festival produced by CCAM, Vendoeuvre-les-Nancy, France on 24th May 2001.

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John Tilbury / piano

Keith Rowe / guitar

Eddie Prévost / percussion

created together with the dancer Fine Kwiatkowski

https://www.cafeoto.co.uk/shop/amm-fine/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcbkOz3ncIs&list=RDBcbkOz3ncIs&start_radio=1

#AMM #KeithRowe #JohnTilbury #EddiePrevost #FineKwiatkowski #FreeImprovisation #Music #MusiqueActionFestival

Tunes Without Measure Or End by AMM, released in 2001 by Matchless Recordings

"'..a slowly unfolding dreamscape in which the group attenuates both time and space. In this specific performance, Tilbury and Rowe represent very different sonic vocabularies. T delights in the acoustic resonance of a good piano, in the clearly articulated tone or cluster. His sounds hang in the air in a way that seems traditionally beautiful. R's fundamental sounds are abrasive metallic ratchetings, humming feedback, treble-loaded pings and bowed guitar ...And always the presence of his transistor radio, ready to intrude momentarily the outside world in its worst light...a sonic space so large here, so fundamentally clear, that there's room for the two approaches to co-exist, as if Rowe and Tilbury sometimes played at opposite ends of the universe. " - Soundohm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMw-ID20XsU

#Amm #FreeImprovisation #KeithRowe #EddiePrevost #JohnTilbury #Music

I rewatched Bob Burnett’s wonderful short (25 min) film about Keith Rowe today, ‘What is Man & What is Guitar?’. It’s inspirational & life-affirming, but also quite heartbreaking. I doubt I could love his ideas & his music any more.

If you’re interested in notions of music & art, & how one person has navigated his unique & singular lifetime through it all, it’s well worth your time.

#KeithRowe #AMM #ExperimentalMusic #ImprovisedMusic @experimentalmusic @improvisedmusic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9AbMBDjCys&pp

What Is Man And What Is Guitar?: Keith Rowe

YouTube

Exposition "Enough still not to know" de Kjell Bjørgeengen avec installation sonore de Keith Rowe et John Tilbury 🎶

26 avril 2025, 00:00:00 CEST - GMT+2

https://mobilizon.fr/events/0ddf0da0-76b9-4a96-a890-70f99278a0cf

Exposition "Enough still not to know" de Kjell Bjørgeengen avec installation sonore de Keith Rowe et John Tilbury 🎶

26 avr. 2025, 00:00:00 - GMT+2 - Dates : Du samedi 26 avril au samedi 18 mai 2024 Vernissage : Samedi 26 avril de 18h30 à 21h30 Visites : Samedi et dimanche de 14h30 à 18h30 (sauf le samedi 26 avril – ouverture à 18h30) Lieu : P…

#NowPlaying AMM ‘Tunes Without Measure or End’.

I love AMM’s music, but this album is really special to me because I was at the concert in Glasgow where it was recorded, nearly 25 years ago. I remember sitting on the floor in a large white space in the McLellan Galleries, with the music existing and then not existing in the air around us.

#AMM #ExperimentalMusic #KeithRowe #EddiePrevost #JohnTilbury

I rewatched Bob Burnett’s insightful and very moving short documentary about Keith Rowe this afternoon: ‘What Is Man and What Is Guitar?: Keith Rowe’. If you’ve not seen it, I recommend it; it’s only 25 minutes long.

As time advances inexorably, it feels even more important to capture the moments that matter—in music as well as in so much else—and to live between the ‘clicks’.

https://youtu.be/F9AbMBDjCys

#KeithRowe #AMM #ExperimentalMusic #ElectricGuitar

What Is Man And What Is Guitar?: Keith Rowe

YouTube