Marco Oppedisano is an American guitarist, composer, recording artist, instructor, and session musician. His compositions primarily focus on the innovative use of electric guitar in the genre of electroacoustic music. Oppedisano has also composed a cappella works, various ensemble works with guitar and solo classical and solo electric guitar compositions.

Oppedisano has four album releases on the OKS Recordings of North America label (OKSRNA): Mechanical Uprising (2010), The Ominous Corner (2008), Electroacoustic Compositions for Electric Guitar (2007) and a collaboration with David Lee Myers (aka. Arcane Device) called Tesla at Coney Island (2008). Oppedisano has also recorded for labels including Tzadik Records, Bridge Records ($100 Guitar Project), Mutable Music, EM Records (Japan), Capstone Records and Spectropol Records.  In late 2015, Oppedisano will be releasing an EP of electroacoustic music with electric guitar on Spectropol Records called, Resolute.

His works have been performed and heard in various areas around the world and are all published through Out Your Ear (ASCAP)

Oppedisano is a native of Brooklyn, New York. He holds a B.A in Music Composition from the Brooklyn College Conservatory of Music and an M.A in Music Composition from the Queens College Aaron Copland School of Music.


	Je suis montréalais et québécois vivant à Saint-Jean de Matha. Je suis un musicien créateur oeuvrant dans la musique de film, de théâtre, d'improvisation et en électroacouatique. Ma musique, c'est assez varié: solis de guitare acoustique, classique, électrique, préparée (avec ou sans vinaigre...), du cistre, du délire d'impro free à la notation maniaque où tout est écrit...et néanmoins jamais exécuté deux fois pareil. Ya du folk, du minimalisme électronique, du blues de métèque sans métrique (ou à métrique de métèque étriqué?), du techno-arabo-bruitiste-concret quand même dansable, et dans l'sable quand ça devient saharien ou gobiesque, comme dans ma pièce le shaman techno du désert de Gobi. Ya aussi de l'électroacoutique, impur à ce que disent les zexperts en la matière, mais la pureté pour moi, ça a des arrières goûts de nazisme. Ya dans mon bagage sur CD des disques de percussion "junk" entremêlé de soudures électroniques et des cris primaux onomatopéïques en délire sur flûte à bec qualifiée de pataphysique (dixit Jean Derome…). Et bien d'autres choses aussi. Je m’amuse comme un grand fou, et amuse ceux qui ont le goût d’entrer dans ma danse ébourifée de capotage sonore. J'espère jouer au Québec l'été prochain.

Daniel Heikalo is a multi-faceted composer and instrumentalist living in Saint-Jean de Matha, Québec. Born in a french-speaking working class neighbourhood of Montreal, he grew up surrounded by fascinating architecture, colourful people, noise, pollution, poverty, and the kind of sensibility to deeply absorb the richness of his surroundings. He developed an appreciation for light and visual composition, architecture, that translated in his early involvement with drawing and photography, which he still practices professionally. He also discovered early on that his ear was musical, being able to memorize complex instrumental pieces which he would sing to himself on his way to school, or to alleviate the boredom instilled by that institution, not recommended for creative people. After realizing that he could sing in his mind complete lead guitar solos by the likes of Clapton, Zappa and Page, he thought that learning guitar might be a good thing. He was right and never looked back.

Heikalo now plays all kinds of guitars, banjo, cittern, mandolin, drums, percussion, recorders and invented instruments. He has 30 CDs available from Bandcamp.com, which range from classically-influenced folk and world music to electroacoustic sonic mayhem and free improvisation. He does all his recording, mixing and mastering in his home studio and records other musicians, theatre and video soundtracks.

Daniel Heïkalo, Août 2014

Experimental musician, improviser, and multi-instrumentalist originally from Sherbrooke, now based in St-Faustin, Quebec, Canada. I came out of the music closet at age 38. I play keyboards, theremin, percussion, and various misfit instruments, and I also sing, drawing inspiration in equal parts from Peter Hammill, Phil Minton, and Keiji Haino. I also love to sculpt multi-facetted feedbacks using mixing boards. Solo releases on La Cohu, Cuchabata, and Pan y Rosas. I also play in La Forêt rouge [http://laforetrouge.bandcamp.com], Square/Sine [http://squaresine.bandcamp.com], and RBC [http://rbcmusic.bandcamp.com].

Chuss Laforet is a composer and Spanish guitarist. In 2011 Chuss’s first album, ‘Stop Motion’ is released. It is a record of contemporary instrumental music, entirely performed with an acoustic guitar. A precise rhythm and the subtle treatment of silences sustain each song, rousing an intriguing sense of weightlessness. Thus, an emotional, organic and sincere style emerges. The sound universe of Chuss Laforet immerses you in a landscape of compositions in which the technique is put to the service of the song’s content. Thanks to this performing ability, her music goes beyond the score to also transmits the sensitivity of a great story.

Producer, recording artist, Ted Stilles is sharing this site to showcase a variety of his original music and current collaborations  "Music is a language by which thoughts and feelings can be communicated without words." TS 
"La musique est un langage par lequel les pensées et les sentiments peuvent être communiquées sans mots." TS

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