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Trevor Babb performs Eve Beglarian's "Until it Blazes."

Until It Blazes

From "Table Music," a set of experimental movements using the guitar laid flat on a table with electronics. This particular movement loops voice memos from a smart phone through the instrument's pickups.

Table Music V

Bach Prelude BWV 998

D'un Rêve II by Swiss composer Nicolas Bolens

D'un Rêve II

Sample of the first movement of Electric Counterpoint by Steve Reich. Available on my forthcoming album on Innova Records. To support my Kickstarter campaign, please visit here: http://kck.st/2kdYmKe.

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Electric Counterpoint I. Fast

Sample of Paul Kerekes's piece "trail" for 7 electric guitars, recorded by Trevor Babb. Due out on Innova Records later this year. To support the album's Kickstarter campaign, go to: http://kck.st/2kdYmKe.

trail

Sample of the second movement of Steve Reich's Electric Counterpoint. To be released on Innova Records later in 2017. To support the record and pre-order your copy (physical or digital), go to: http://kck.st/2kdYmKe

Electric Counterpoint II Sample

A sample of the title track from my upcoming album, Warmth. This piece by David Lang of the New York Bang on a Can collective is a polyrhythmic head turner that got me back to playing electric guitar after many years of classical study. To support the album's release, click here: http://kck.st/2kdYmKe

warmth

Third Movement of Steve Reich's Electric Counterpoint from Trevor Babb's album, Warmth, due out on Innova records later this year. To support the album's release and preorder your copy, donate here: http://kck.st/2kdYmKe

Electric Counterpoint III Fast Sample

Sample of James Tenney's Septet for electric guitars due to be released on Trevor Babb's first solo album, Warmth, on Innova Records. This piece didn't just inspire the cover art, it created it. The cover art is a spectral analysis of the audio on this track. Support the album's final production expenses on Kickstarter here: http://kck.st/2kdYmKe

Septet Sample

A sample from my piece, Grimace, for four electric guitars. Initially composed as a model composition assignment for a course on Ligeti, Grimace was inspired by a mask at the Barbier-Mueller Museum in Geneva, Switzerland. The piece uses Ebows and brass slides on the guitar to create smeared counterpoint between the two guitars that eventually devolves into chaos and ultimately melts away. Support the album's final production expenses on Kickstarter: http://kck.st/2kdYmKe

Grimace

Carl Testa's "slope 2", the final track on my debut solo CD, Warmth, to be released on Innova Records. To support the album's final production expenses, visit: http://kck.st/2kdYmKe.

Slope 2 Sample

American guitarist/composer, Trevor Babb, is a versatile guitarist based in New Haven, CT. His performance activities span a wide range of styles including traditional classical guitar, contemporary music on electric guitar, free improvisation, experimental music, and crossover projects.

Mr. Babb has received several awards and recognitions including a Fulbright Award, the Yale School of Music's Eliot Fisk Prize, and back-to back Second Prizes in the Denver Classical Guitar Competition in 2011. He has performed throughout the US, Switzerland, and Spain as a soloist and chamber musician with the Improvised Sound Collective, Yale Recital Chorus and Orchestra, Ossia New Music, the Apeiron Ensemble, the Benson Forum on Creativity and performed on Rochester's public radio station, WXXI. In November 2010, Trevor performed on the Yale in New York concert series with the Yale School of Music guitar department in Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall.

As a passionate advocate of new music, Trevor actively composes and performs his own music, and served as a member of the production board of the Eastman School of Music's student led new music ensemble Ossia New Music from 2009-2010. He has given first performances of pieces by Nicolas Bolens, William Gardiner, Justin Hoke, and Eugene Astapov.

Mr. Babb holds a Bachelor of Music degree from the Eastman School of Music and a Master of Music degree from the Yale School of Music. He also studied for a year at the Haute École de Musique de Genève in Geneva, Switzerland and is currently a candidate for the Doctor of Musical Arts degree at the Yale School of Music. His principal teachers have been Nicholas Goluses, Benjamin Verdery and Dusan Bogdanovic.

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