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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
April 29, 2003


"Beardsley sculpts tones into overpowering moods...In the 17th century it was widely believed that certain musical intervals had built-in emotional connotations: the minor sixth sorrowful, the major seventh yearning. Atonal modernists tried to pretend that that was all superstition, but music like Beardsley's brings the whole issue up again in powerful terms. Why was that squeezed minor ninth so sinister, and why was its resolution down to the major seventh such a cathartic release—as much of a release as the newly cleansed final theme of any Beethoven symphony?

Such austere music isn't for everyone - clearly - but in its glacial tension and release it offered the essential outlines of symphonic form, stripped of surface detail. And in such pure tunings, the dissonant elements that, in Mozart, merely resolve politely, here actually shake the walls and demand resolution."

- Kyle Gann
the Village Voice, New York City
October 7th, 2002


"David Beardsley (of New York) plays a short piece of humming, layered tones on his densely fretted electric guitar, bravely competing with the cashieress, who, oblivious, loudly closes down the register. Pissed at her, but we like Beardsley."

Tony Mostrom
LA Weekly
May 17 - 23, 2002



"Microtonal GOD"

Downtown Music Gallery



"Catch David at this intimate venue (Chama) before he's famous and you can't get in to see him... relaxing and cognitively stimulating!"
- Tom Ritchford
ExtremeNY, August 2003

Reviews for Sonic Bloom:

"Phenomenal is one thought. Deep modern meditation tool is another."

Pat Pagano, dir. Southeast Just Intonation Society, Gainesville, Fl.

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"This release brings up a range of feelings and emotions within me, for what ever reasons, but in terms of interesting releases for 1999, it rates with many a great recording I have been fortunate enough to have heard. "

Hans Stoeve, Power Spot 89.7FM, Sydney, Australia

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"It's fundamentally static, but I can listen to literally hours of the stuff..."

Joseph Pehrson, Composers Concordance, NYC.


Read a review of Temple in the Ear (2000) by Bob Lodge --> here