DAVID STANLEY : new music for electronic guitar

David Stanley is one of the most innovative electronic/multi-effects guitarists in improvised music today. His background is an acoustic guitarist and lutenist, playing and teaching classical, flamenco and folk, hints of all of which enter his improvising style. He has also played with big bands, country and rock groups, and has experimented with cyber-punk. David also presents concerts of new music including works by Stockhausen and Sam Richards. His sensitive washes of electronic sound, rhythmic pulses and solo passages are a distinctive feature of Synchronicity.

David Stanley presents the guitar as a generator of a vast array of sounds capable of being transformed in a host of different ways. Audiences are astonished and delighted by his virtuosic use of electronics and multi-effects. Many have been won over by his extraordinary sensitivity and flair for creating soundscapes of beauty and drama.

David Stanley’s innovative approach is particularly suitable for interpreting graphic and verbal scores, especially those of Stockhausen, Cardew and David’s frequent collaborator Sam Richards. Their works, as well as those of Leo Brouwer, form the backbone of his concert programmes.

David's background in guitar music includes the baroque guitar and lute. He has played both folk and jazz, and often swapped ideas with his old friend the great flamenco guitarist Pepe Martinez.

David has created music for TV, radio and theatre productions, and has been resident guitarist on radio guitar clubs at home and abroad. He is featured playing Sam Richards ‘Eight Delicacies’ on the Future Sounds of Exeter CD issued by the St Davids Ambience Society.

. . . from publicity material produced by Jam Din Totnes Devon

e-mail: david@painted-music.eclipse.co.uk