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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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updated
5/2/2010
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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.
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"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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