Moe Staiano conducts his electric guitar ensemble in the premiere of his second guitar composition, Music for 48 Guitars (24 guitar version).
Moe Staiano conducts his electric guitar ensemble with the premiere of Music for 48 Guitars (24 guitar version). This is an exploration of tonal interplay and contrasting rhythms with eight electric guitars, bass, drums, and percussion. It features assertive rhythmic structures and intertwining tremolo structures, balanced by continuous play against each guitarist with bouncing rhythms and ongoing hockets while surrounding the audience with a bombastic attack.
Written at the start of 2022 and completed in 2023, Music for 48 Guitars follows his first guitar composition, Away Towards the Light (2016), but with a vision of encompassing the audience of the ensemble with various stations of players circling the audience with a live surround sound of music sections traveling back and forth. There are six (6) groupings of eight (8) guitar players each (four (4) each in this case for this performance), spread out equally in the room, with five percussionists playing toms, cymbals, bongos, brake drums, and tam-tam, and one drummer and bassist. The lack of venues with the space and accommodation to house a hefty ensemble of 55 players has (and continues to) delay any performance. The truncated ensemble of 31 players will be the first performance of any kind at the Dresher Ensemble Studio. The performance will conclude my 2019 Dresher Ensemble Artist Residency that was interrupted due to COVID.
Musicians:
Melne Murphy
Damon Wood
Lenny Gonzalez
Matt Ribidoux
Bill WolterMatt Herman-Orange
Alee Karim
Jay Korber
David James
Chris Palmer
Robert Nance
Josh Pollock
Lorenzo Arreguin
Brent Miller
Robin Walsh
Drew Wheeler
Eliean Leigh
Jas Stade
Brian Tester
Karl Evangelista
Marc Zollinger
Marissa Dietz
Farley Miller
(plus one more guitarist TBD)
Bass:
Elijah Pontecorvo
Percussion:
Scott Siler
Eli Knowles
Jason Levis
Mark CliffordTim DeCillisDrums:
Jordan GlennCost: $20.00