Hearts of Space #1053 Space Guitars 12 (9-5-2014) MP3

Ambient Instrumentals - Guitar


"Ambient explorations for electronically enhanced guitar"
This is the current week's program from Hearts of Space Radio Show, broadcast this past weekend of September 5-7, 2014. While my file folder incorrectly labeled it a 2012 broadcast, it is, in fact, a new broadcast this year. Music is split to MP3s, and the tracklist is included.

Program Notes by Stephen Hill, Producer
The inventors of the electric guitar were originally motivated by the need for volume, to compete with drums, brass, and other loud instruments. But it didn't take long for reverb and special effects to transform the electric guitar into a vehicle for space exploration. Beginning in the 1960s, technically inclined improvisers used tape recorders to create live repetitions, essentially reinventing the Baroque canon, where a musical phrase or melody is repeated at fixed intervals. The need for more portable effects led to the invention of compact tape loop echo processors, and today's electronic "loopers," which make possible a more precise and flexible style of contemplative improvisation.

On this transmission of Hearts of Space, recent work in this ambient sub-genre, with another installment of our long-running "space guitars" series, on a program called SPACE GUITARS 12.