More Giacomo Fiore's contemporary and experimental guitar music
Italian-born guitarist and musicologist Giacomo Fiore has premiered more than two dozen new works for justly-tuned, electric, and classical guitars, and released several recordings for Populist, Cold Blue, Pinna, Spectropol, Paper Garden Records, and his own impressum.
Colors: modern music for guitar
Colors includes four mesmerizing and evocative works from contemporary composers Toru Takemitsu, Michael Tippett, Lou Harrison, and Benjamin Britten.
Released June 14, 2011.
Modern music for classical and just-intonation resophonic guitar.
iv: american electric guitars
released July 31, 2014
Four compositions by u.s. composers for electric guitars, exploring the novel textural, harmonic, and expressive possibilities that the instrument allows.
My Heart Comes Undone/Because EP
Two tracks related by the layering of multiple guitar parts. Adashi's *my heart comes undone* was originally composed for cello and looping pedal, and presented here in a studio multi-tracking version for electric guitar. The piece departs from Bjork's "Unravel," both musically and in the inspiration for its title.
Giacomo Fiore’s arrangement of "Because" features multiple looped lines to underscore the piece's own magical layering (in the original, of three copies of John, Paul, and George's timeless harmonies).
From Pike by Giacomo Fiore and Larry Polansky
electric guitar duets from the u.s. experimental tradition
released February 25, 2020
Michael Pisaro: black, white, red, green, blue
an extended composition for solo electric guitar, inspired by the opening couplet in arthur rimbaud's poem "voyelles," and exploring the boundaries between silence, sound, and music.
released May 1, 2020
Catherine Lamb // point/wave
"point/wave" is a long-form cyclical work by Catherine Lamb for steel-string acoustic guitar and Secondary Rainbow Synthesizer, an electronic instrument developed by Lamb and Bryan Eubanks that filters environmental sounds into lush waves of microtonal sonorities. Performed by guitarist Giacomo Fiore, the slowly-evolving work features justly-tuned guitar and processed atmospheric sounds from Fiore's San Francisco neighborhood. The download includes a detailed PDF booklet with images and notes about the work written by Fiore.
released August 21, 2020
Turntable drawing no. 16 by Giacomo Fiore and Danny Clay
Turntable Drawings is an ongoing series of numbered works by composer Danny Clay and printmaker Jon Fischer based on a growing collection of hand-molded, playable records. Turntable Drawing No. 16 combines three turntables playing locked-groove records with a score for electric guitar featuring looped chordal fragments. The records are encoded with various sounds: some noisy, some melodic, all pretty low in fidelity.
released August 26, 2022
Giacomo Fiore, electric guitars; synthesizer (live version).
Danny Clay, turntables and electronics.
Jon Fischer, handmade records.