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Rod Poole began playing the guitar in
1972. He experimented with various musical idioms and by the mid-80s, his
primary interests were acoustic-based free improvisation and finger-picked
solo acoustic guitar. A founding member of the Oxford Improvisors’
Cooperative, Poole’s association was between the years 1983-1986. After
moving to the United States
in 1989, his studies in just intonation began with the world’s foremost
theorist on the subject, Ervin Wilson. Poole spent the
next several years developing his approach to playing the guitar using just
intonation theory. Poole has released a handful of
unique and highly praised CDs on the W.I.N., Transparency, and Incus labels –
The Dead Adder, December 96, Iasis,and The Acoustic Guitar Trio. He
contributed “Kalaidoscopic Sunday” to the Henry Kaiser-curated guitar
compilation, 156 Strings, and “The Fire Left to Come” to the SASSAS two-CD
set, Sound, a compilation of Los Angeles-based performances curated by Cindy
Bernard. Poole was also responsible for engineering
the recording of all but three of the performances on Sound. He has performed
with Derek Bailey, Mia Masaoka, Joseph Hammer, Kraig Grady, Nels Cline,
Donald Miller, Pat Thomas, Tony Bevan, Eugene Chadbourne, and others.
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