Keith Rowe
Keith Rowe (born March 16, 1940 in Plymouth , England ) is a free-improvising British guitarist and visual artist.
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Rowe first studied art at the London Art School and worked as a jazz musician with Mike Westbrook , where he approached free play. With his fellow students Eddie Prévost and Lou Gare , he founded the influential improvisation ensemble AMM in 1965 , to which he belonged until 2004 (except between 1972 and 1976). Rowe initially developed an unconventional use of the guitar, especially in this group, with which he prepared new ways to play for the music avant-garde : Similar to Masayuki Takayanagi , he put the guitar on a table to play and used materials to prepare it like a piano ; he also used instruments with a third bridge . He also included radios and other noise generators.
Rowe was also involved in founding the electronics band M.IMEO and the group [N: Q]. Since the 1990s he has been considered one of the most influential musicians in the field of free improvisation music and electroacoustic music .
Rowe worked with musicians and composers such as Cornelius Cardew , Christian Wolff , Howard Skempton , Taku Sugimoto , Otomo Yoshihide , Sachiko M , Oren Ambarchi , Christian Fennesz , Toshimaru Nakamura , Burkhard Beins , Günter Müller , John Tilbury and Evan Parker . Rowe currently lives in France .
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- Edwin Prévost: No Sound Is Innocent: AMM and the Practice of Self-Invention - Meta-Musical Narratives, Essays Copula, 1995; ISBN 0-9525492-0-4
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| SURNAME | Rowe, Keith |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British guitarist and improvisation musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 16, 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Plymouth , England |