Electric Guitar and Electronics — Yiannis Foulidis (2024)

Electric Guitar and Electronics (2024), by Yiannis Foulidis

Written, performed, recorded and mixed by Yiannis Foulidis, from November 2023 to January 2024.

I wrote this piece because electric guitar is an instrument rarely seen in contemporary “classical” music.

This piece is sort of a “quasi-concerto” for a single performer. I used electronics to accompany the solo part, and looked to achieve timbres similar to bowed strings, and percussion. There are some organ-like timbres, as well. All sampler sounds are created from guitar.

There are many tone row manipulations present, rhythm “games”, and some chords whose sounds, to me, are more timbral than harmonic (in any sort of familiar way, at least).

This was a great learning experience, and a way for me to really sharpen my technical abilities in writing, but also in timbral combinations.