A set of 4 compositions for electric guitar based on processes of realtime audio transformations performed and programmed by the composer.

III. You Are That Way

I'm Kenneth Stewart. Please call me Ken. Thanks for reading. I'd say I'm a bit of a ‘renaissance man’. If I'm playing, it usually has strings. If I'm in the role of curator or composer, a background in performance becomes useful in other ways.

In a previous utterance, music assisted by physical interfaces and sound processing played heavily on my work, however once I finished school my desire to stay behind the desk dwindled. I took to acoustic genres. I'd say for a couple of years I became fascinated with the subtle differences between Jazz and Bluegrass, yet the vast differences in the harmony, sets and motifs specifically in Old-Time and New Acoustic show that what you hear is not always what you expect.

Using the instruments I play I seek to explore the roots of the music that happens around me here in Durham, NC.

The scholarly study of composition prepared me by to use the tools of a composer to develop musical ideas far beyond my own. I took to standards as experimental tools for learning how to create works with rich, melodious textures and romantic harmony.

I'd like to think that the time away from school helped me enhance my original obsession with weaving into my work an underpinning of the ambient electronic music and that of the avant-garde. Or my insistence a perversion for unusual sounds and peculiar timbres somehow coalescing into something familiar and hopeful.

While I do musical research that engages concepts of instrument modification and design and his non-compositional creative work of signal processing (linear and digital) and the hacking and modifications of electronic and acoustic musical instruments and their electronic effects, sometimes what's necessary is putting that all away and singing a simple song.

As a quasi-alumnus member of the Slippage Lab formerly at Duke University now at Northwestern, under the directorship of professor Thomas DeFrantz. Most of my time with Slippage was when I was a graduate student at Duke..
Some other things of note: I was one of Gordon Epperson's final cello students. Nancy Green, and protege, Nelvimar Neves and two summer festivals of lessons and masterclasses as a teenager with Brinton Averil Smith and countless lessons via conversation with colleagues. 

My composition mentors, whom shaped my vision for music creation: Daniel Asia, Pierre Jalbert, Durham’s Scott Lindroth and as well as a summer in Berlin with Samuel Adler; ditto on the colleagues.

Ph.D. from Duke University, and additional degrees from Rice University, The University of Arizona and Pima College in Tucson, AZ.
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Created in 2009 by Antonio Bonazzo, the groups leader, AB Quartet have since travelled around Europe playing their unique sound while perfecting their blend of genres and preparing for the launch of their debut studio album “OUTSIDING” (2017), a name that refers to the unconventional music themes and in general to the musicians and their individualistic style. The four diverse musicians that form AB Quartet, Antonio Bonazzo (Piano), Francesco Chiapperini (Clarinet & bass clarinet), Cristiano Da Ros (Double bass) and Fabrizio Carriero (Drums & percussion) all stand out in their own musical expertise but together bring something unforgettable to the music world playing a blend of classical, free jazz, jungle, rock and contemporary that leaves their listeners humming their tune for days. After the first album "Outsiding", recorded on 2016, in 2018 AB Quartet proposed "I bemolli sono blu" (Flat notes are blue), a review of some of the most intresting Debussy’s works played in the kaleidoscopic music style of ABQ to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the french composer's death. In 2023 they released their third album "DO ut Des" inspired by ancient music and in particular by Gregorian chant.

Laboratorium is the 2nd profile of a well-known experimental band from Germany. 
The one you're on is about pure Improvisation.
Hope you enjoy this as much as we do!

If you want to watch Filmtrailers we did music for: please choose the links "Music for Movies 1 & 2"

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Versuchsanordnung // laboratorium players (from 2006 until today):

Christoph Uhlhaas: piano, electronics

Christian Barthold: guitar, live-looping, microkorg, bass-ukulele, fretless bass, live-electronics, theremin, kalimba, percussion, flutes

Martin Schubert: drums & percussion

Wilfried Hanrath: our new man on fretless bass & fretless bass-ukulele

Markus Blatzheim (2006-2014): fretless bass, bass-synth, selfmade flutes, synth

Jörg Düpjohann (2006-2010): electric & acoustic drums & percussion

Joe Becker (R.I.P. 2016): drums, percussion

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please contact Christian Barthold (Manager)
mailto: weaverofyourdreams@gmx.de

Thank you for your open ears!

III. You Are That Way

Kenneth D. Stewart