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	Rhys Chatham - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the early 1970s Chatham was the first music director of The Kitchen in New York.
		By 1977, Chatham's music was heavily influenced by punk rock, particularly no wave.
		Chatham began taking trumpet lessons in the 1980s, and his more recent works explore improvisatory trumpet solos (performed by the composer) over synthesized dance rhythms.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rhys_Chatham (179 words)

	Rhys Chatham -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		In the early (The decade from 1970 to 1979) 1970s Chatham was the first music director of (additional info and facts about The Kitchen) The Kitchen in (A Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies) New York.
		By 1977, Chatham's music was heavily influenced by (Rock music with deliberately offensive lyrics expressing anger and social alienation; in part a reaction against progressive rock) punk rock, particularly (additional info and facts about no wave) no wave.
		Chatham began taking trumpet lessons in the (The decade from 1980 to 1989) 1980s, and his more recent works explore improvisatory trumpet solos (performed by the composer) over synthesized dance rhythms.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/r/rh/rhys_chatham.htm (255 words)

	microsuoni: Rhys Chatham (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		It was Rhys Chatham who first applied multiple electric guitars to the extended-duration, overtone-drenched minimalism of the 1960s.
		In it, Chatham appropriates a number of musical styles -- serial technique, chance operations, and just intonation -- then through a process of amalgamation and superimposition, he transcends their original musical meaning while at the same time imploding it.
		As Chatham himself writes: 'When one tunes a piano in just intonation, it is essentially in one key, the key of 1.
	www.microsuoni.com /artists/chatham.html (510 words)

	village voice > music > by Kyle Gann
		Chatham was then music director of the Kitchen, and the aim was apparently to get the band a Kitchen gig, which it did.
		Chatham moved to Paris in 1987, where he wrote a piece for 100 electric guitars, An Angel Moves Too Fast to See, which premiered in Lille in 1989.
		While Chatham uses short movements with complex rhythms and a lot of surface detail, Branca has the patience to let you think for several minutes at a stretch that nothing is happening except the ongoing barrage of sound.
	www.villagevoice.com /issues/0126/gann.shtml (758 words)

	Glenn Branca - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He moved to New York in 1976, and his early music was performed in No Wave bands of the late 1970s, namely The Static and Theoretical Girls.
		He also performed Rhys Chatham's Guitar Trio in 1977, an experience that was very important in the development of his compositional voice (Branca 1979).
		Some scholars, most prominently Kyle Gann, consider him (and Chatham) to be a member of the totalist school of post-minimalism.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Glenn_Branca (392 words)

	CMT.com : Rhys Chatham : Biography
		Chatham's guitar works -- the first of which, "Guitar Trio," was premiered by a trio including Glenn Branca -- were played at high volumes, revealing the overtones, which can sound like voices, but also resulted in tinnitus for him by the early '80s.
		Chatham's better-known guitar works include "Drastic Classicism" (1982) for four guitars with alternate tunings, and the symphony "An Angel Moves Too Fast to See" (1989) for 100 electric guitars (with bass and drums).
		Chatham also began incorporating his trumpeting (often electrified, with effects) after about a decade of studying the instrument.
	www.cmt.com /artists/az/chatham_rhys/bio.jhtml (380 words)

	TrouserPress.com :: Rhys Chatham
		What's unique about this particular debate is that the chicken and egg themselves — Rhys Chatham and Glenn Branca — have been doing all the shouting about just which composer/performer caught the no wave first.
		One thing's for certain: Chatham's tightrope walk across the rock/classical gorge began firmly on the "legitimate" side, so his work has often courted rockists with an assumed thumbs-up from "serious" music fans — the reverse of Branca's approach.
		The earliest, "Guitar Trio" (on which Chatham and future Ordinaire Joe Dizney are axepeople) is the most visceral, with a slack, extended-time structure that pulls taut at the most unexpected moments.
	www.trouserpress.com /entry.php?a=rhys_chatham (281 words)

	Rhys Chatham, Nonpop New Music Composer
		Rhys Chatham was born in Manhattan in 1952.
		Rhys Chatham studied tuning under Hugh Gough in New York and William Dowd in Cambridge and supported himself during the early seventies by tuning the instruments of such artists as Gustav Leonhardt, Albert Fuller, Paul Jacobs, and Glenn Gould, to name only a few.
		Rhys Chatham's compositional concern has been to bring together seemingly incompatible elements and put them through a personal filter so as to vertically align them.
	kalvos.org /chatham.html (887 words)

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		New York-born composer and musician Rhys Chatham was an influential figure in the downtown New York music scene of the late 1970s and early 1980s.
		Chatham was an art music composer who embraced the vocabulary of rock, merging punk and avant-garde sensibilities and moving between art music and rock contexts.
		Rhys Chatham: A Four Year Retrospective documents a series of performances by Chatham and his ensemble at The Kitchen in 1981.
	www.eai.org /eai/tape.jsp?itemID=9472 (194 words)

	Avantgarde Music. Rhys Chatham: biography, discography, reviews, links (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		A Rhys Chatham Compendium (Table of the Elements, 2002) and the 3-CD box-set An Angel Moves Too Fast To See (Table of Elements, 2003) are career-spanning anthologies.
		Rhys Chatham, allievo di LaMonte Young e di Morton Subotnick, e' l'eminenza grigia del secondo minimalismo newyorkese.
		Protagonista di diverse trovate multimediali (compresa l'opera XS), Chatham vara una versione del minimalismo in cui le chitarre prendono il posto delle tastiere elettroniche con lo scopo di far musica tramite i sovratoni.
	www.scaruffi.com /oldavant/chatham.html (295 words)

	RHYS CHATHAM
		A classically trained musician, Chatham was piano tuner to Glenn Gould and La Monte Young, student of Young and Morton Subotnick, protégée of Tony Conrad, and in 1971, while still in his teens, founder of the highly influential experimental music program at the Kitchen in lower Manhattan.
		Nevertheless, it was Rhys Chatham who first applied multiple electric guitars to the extended-duration, overtone-drenched minimalism of the 1960s.
		For a moment you forgot you ever had a name and came from somewhere; this was louder than anything you had ever heard, louder than you had prepared yourself for, and there was no reality other than this.
	www.rhyschatham.com /home.html (245 words)

	Rhys Chatham, Echo Solo, Azoth Schallplatten, LP
		Rhys Chatham, Echo Solo, Azoth Schallplatten, LP Home
		By 1989, downtown legend Rhys Chatham had been fusing art music and punk rock for almost fourteen years and wanted to try his hand at something else.
		In it, Chatham appropriates a number of musical styles - serial technique, chance operations, and just intonation, then through a process of amalgamation and superimposition, he transcends their original musical meaning while at the same time imploding it.
	www.secondlayer.co.uk /index/p58.htm (146 words)

	Rhys Chatham / Trumpet Action / Les 100 guitares Home Page
		Rhys Chatham is a composer / performer from New York City now living in Paris known for rock-influenced compositions such as GUITAR TRIO (1977) to AN ANGEL MOVES TOO FAST TO SEE (1989) for 100 electric guitars, with a lot of other electric music in between.
		Composer's Notebook1970-90 are Rhys' experiences in NY from 1970-1990 and covers his days as co-founder / music director of the Kitchen Center in New York as well as his adventures on the no-wave rock scene: CBGBs, Max's, the Mudd Club, Danceteria, Tier 3 and more...
		Dead Angel 1996 Interview is an interview with Rhys by Dead Angel Magazine made in the autumn of 1996 and covers his current work with trumpet and guitars as well as tracing the origins of American minimalism.
	perso.wanadoo.fr /rhys.chatham (946 words)

	The Mystical Beast
		I didn't really start to like them until I started to listen to them as amped up guitar minimalism, which is basically the source of their sound.
		Rhys Chatham, if you haven't heard his name before, is the other guy who came up with the concept of composing for groups of electric guitars.
		Band Of Susans covered one Chatham composition during their career, with a neat take on a pretty important (and listenable, considering it involves one note) piece called Guitar Trio.
	mysticalbeast.blogspot.com /2005/01/this-is-not-your-bloody-valentine-last.html (674 words)

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		Rhys has moved to France few years ago and now he is doing some techno music.
		Subject: Re: Rhys Chatham was Re[4]: LOLO was Re[2]: Locus Solus On Thu, 22 Oct 98 12:38:53 -0500 brian_olewnick@smtplink.mssm.edu wrote: > > He also has a web page (don't have the URL handy, but do an Alta Vista > search on his name and you'll find it) which includes some thoughtful > essays.
		You can recognize Rhys' style but the net result, like you said, is not very convincing, landing in a kind of no-man's land (neither exciting from what angle you look at it).
	www.xmission.com /pub/lists/zorn-list/archive/v02.n510 (3062 words)

	Rhys Chatham : Factor X - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect
		Chatham's liner notes seem to indicate that all of the brass playing had been notated, but surely some of the wails and cries were at least originally generated in improvisation and then possibly later written to paper.
		The three guitar pieces show Chatham working his own corner of the space initially explored by Glenn Branca.
		With the massed but differently tuned guitars riding over a rockish rhythm, there are certainly similarities but, among other subtler differences, Chatham's pieces tend to have an upbeat quality, even a lilt, that is rarely found in Branca.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,63722,00.html (291 words)

	Rhys Chatham: An Angel Moves Too Fast to See: Selected Works 1971-1989: Pitchfork Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Buzzing and bursting forth with six guitars on “Die Donnergötter”, Chatham’s motley crew-- featuring future Illbient-blower Ben Neill, ex-Modern Lover Ernie Brooks, Susan Stenger from Band of Susans, and the Dictators’ drummer-- plows down a speedy superhighway of fl tar rock and roll, paving the space between Television’s ascendant Marquee Moon and Neu!’s motorik downbeat.
		Despite the sheer impossibility of recording one hundred guitars and accurately conveying that force, there are huge movements from the group, roving from Chatham’s classic colossal bustle into “Interstellar Overdrive”-like drift, even into a curious place that resembles...a hundred dudes playing the opening punches of “Eye of the Tiger”.
		Chatham is huge, and that the box grasps so much of that significance makes it a crowning achievement.
	www.pitchforkmedia.com /record-reviews/c/chatham_rhys/an-angel-moves-too-fast-to-see.shtml (805 words)

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		Rhys Chatham and Martin Wheeler's Neon ep is an incredible collision of Tackhead style funk, Dark Magus style molten trumpet playing and the fourth world sounds of Jon Hassell & Brian Eno's Possible Musics.
		On "Charm", the highlight of the more accessible/dancy A side, Chatham's ferocious trumpet playing is run through a distortion pedal and sounds like it's summoning the ghost of Sonny Sharrock to wreak havoc over a heavy funk landscape.
		(Chatham's noize aesthetic should come as no surprise as he originally composed skronk guitar orchestrations at the same time Glenn Branca did back in the late 70s/early 80s.) The B side features the introspective "Ramatek": a subdued number mixing chilled out wah-wah trumpet with Indian tablas.
	www.xmission.com /pub/lists/zorn-list/archive/v02.n043 (2994 words)

	Rhys Chatham (1952 - )
		Rhys Chatham is the second guitar hero to have graced NYC's no-wave scene along with Glenn Branca.
		Rhys Chatham is a classically trained flautist and pianist who studied with LaMonte Young and Morton Subotnick in the late `60s.
		In the early `70s Rhys experimented with serial composition and minimalism and also studied harpsichord tuning with William Dowd.
	www.jahsonic.com /RhysChatham.html (5570 words)

	RHYS CHATHAM \| Press
		Chatham's sonic vocabulary is an inspired marriage of minimalist structures, rock cadences and glittering overtones obtained from massed electric guitars played in unusual tunings at crushing volume.
		Chatham is huge, and that the box grasps so much of that significance makes it a crowning achievement." —Pitchfork
		"Chatham aimed for naturalism and transcendence; simultaneously beatific and horrifying, his music can sound like tornadoes or a swarm of bees, as peaceful as a nave or as chaotic as an avalanche.
	rhyschatham.com /press (630 words)

	THE BRAIN - DON'T SAY WE DIDN'T WARN YOU (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		But what is predictable in Chatham is not boring or off-putting; one quality that must not be denied this music is that it develops exactly how you'd hoped it would, almost as if you'd heard it many times before.
		Chatham's other major piece for multiple guitars, "An Angel Moves Too Fast to See," sounds very much like what it is: "Die Donnergotter" times about 17.
		Chatham writes extensively about the critical climate of the '70s and '80s in the 140-page book that accompanies An Angel Moves Too Fast to See, describing in detail the newfound flexibility and freedom along genre lines that composers enjoyed at the time.
	www.brainwashed.com /brain/brainv06i34.html (7795 words)

	Brave New Waves // Brave New Media (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Rhys Chatham is a minimalist composer who did most of his work in the very prolific New york downtown scene.
		He gave up the guitar for the trumpet and has been living in Paris for over a decade.
		Music excerpts from: Rhys Chatham "A Rhys Chatham Compendium" (2002 - Table of the Elements)
	www.bravenewwaves.ca /bnmedia/archive_i_chatham.shtml (53 words)

	welcome message (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		hi friend rhys, your remark is very interesting and asks the musical situation today, its relation with modernity, or with post-modernity, or not?
		>Rhys Chatham wrote: >In short, I am in favor of making a conscious rather than subliminal >effort to use the new musical forms and extended vocabulary available >to us, and to launch an investigation into the nature of this freedom >itself.
		salut l'ami rhys, ta remarque est tres interessante et interroge la situation musicale actuelle, son rapport a la modernite, la post-modernite, ou non?
	homestudio.thing.net /forum/arch/msg00026.html (574 words)

	Midheaven Mailorder \| Browse by Label: Table Of The Elements (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		*JONATHAN KANE is a Downtown NYC legend--as cofounder of the no-wave behemoth SWANS, and the rhythmic thunder behind the massed-guitar armies of RHYS CHATHAM** and LA MONTE YOUNG--and one of the hardest-hitting drummers on the planet.
		With February, his first solo record, Kane summons Swans' concussive wallop, Chatham's dense guitar strata (Kane even manages a rollicking version of Chatham's notorious "Guitar Trio"), and the perpetual propulsion of ‘70s krautrockers Neu, then steers it all head-on into the blues.
		Make no mistake about it: Kane is a bluesman, and beneath the high-decible bombast of these five instrumentals, he's powering guitar-driven minimalism into the blues, and the blues into guitar-driven harmonic maximalism.
	www.midheaven.com /labels/nonexc/table.of.the.elements.html (1063 words)

	* Dusted Labels [ Table of the Elements ] *
		A Rhys Chatham Compendium by Rhys Chatham ranked 32 on Jul.
		A Rhys Chatham Compendium by Rhys Chatham ranked 20 on Jun.
		The Rhys Chatham Compendium by Rhys Chatham ranked 29 on Jun.
	www.dustedmagazine.com /labels/264 (116 words)

	Kalvos and Damian / The Web Project
		In Paris, two composers were on line, Eliane Radigue and Rhys Chatham.
		Chatham, who helped found New York's The Kitchen, transformed the world view of electric guitars with his remarkable work for 100 guitars, An Angel Moves Too Fast to See; his essay Composer's Notebook (link below) on the past two decades of music and performance art and his provocations on Usenet are well known.
		Saturday, March 8: Realtime chat and exchange/critique of Midifiles with composers Rhys Chatham and Eliane Radigue in Paris, joined by Laurie Spiegel and Tom Hamilton in New York.
	www.maltedmedia.com /euromid (582 words)

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