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Experimental Guitar
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Experimental Guitar
Harry Pussy
1996
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Experimental Guitar
Experimental guitar is a practice-centered genre that treats the guitar as an open-ended sound source rather than a fixed instrument. Instead of conventional chord–riff–solo roles, it privileges extended techniques, unconventional tunings, feedback systems, prepared objects, live electronics, and non-standard forms. Across acoustic and electric traditions, practitioners bow strings, retune to microtonal scales, insert objects ("prepared" guitar), exploit amplifier/speaker coupling, and route signals through tape, modular gear, granular processors, or custom circuitry. The result ranges from delicate timbral studies and ambient expanses to ferocious noise, harsh texture, and physically driven performance art.
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Harry Pussy
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