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"a
tough, intense work"
- Brian Olewnick, bagatellen
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David Beardsley
microtonal guitar, composer/performer
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7/18/2009
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"Beardsley sculpts tones into overpowering moods.... clearly -
in its glacial tension and release it offered the essential outlines of
symphonic form, stripped of surface detail."
"For those of you who don't know, David Beardsley plays
some amazing ambient, microtonal, loopy, delicious guitar. "
"The electric guitar corner was represented
by David Beardsley's atmospheric "Around D" — operative
word "around." Beardsley played his maxi-fretted guitar through a
volume pedal, a looping device and other effects to create swirling layers
of meditative droning. Throbbing close tones made it a vibration-oriented
experience."
Josef Woodard, LA Times
"…it is both mesmerizing and
slightly disturbing…I love the way the notes shimmer and float like
feathers on the air. You can actually observe the texture of each sound as
it slowly evolves. Although I did enjoy the other pieces here by Morton
Feldman and the other lesser-known composers, I felt the Beardsley piece
was the most fascinating of the bunch."
Bruce
Gallanter, Downtown Music Gallery, NYC
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