Los Angeles Electric 8

Los Angeles Electric 8

Los Angeles Electric 8 performing at MicroFest, 2008
Background information
Origin Los Angeles, California, United States
Genres
Occupation(s) Chamber ensemble
Years active 2006-present
Website losangeleselectric8.com
Members
  • Felix Salazar
  • JohnPaul Trotter
  • Eric Kiersnowski
  • Andy Lee
  • Nicholas Deyoe
  • Gabe Deutsch
  • Tom Frazer
  • Jeremy Kerner
Past members
  • Brandon Schmidt (2013)
  • Hugo Aguayo (2010-2013)
  • Ken Rosser (2009, 2012-2013)
  • Tom Farrell (2009-2013)
  • Philip Graulty (2006-2013)
  • Kai Kurosawa (2010-2013)
  • Marc Nimoy (2006-2013)
  • Chelsea Green (2006-2012)
  • Alexander Sack (2008-2010)
  • Ben Harbert (2006-2010)
  • Andy Nathan (2007-2009)
  • Brandon Mayer (2006-2008)
  • Bryce Wilson (2006-2007)

The Los Angeles Electric 8 is an electric guitar chamber octet founded in 2006. The group is based in Los Angeles, California. The founding members are Philip Graulty, Chelsea Green, Ben Harbert, Brandon Mayer, Marc Nimoy, Felix Salazar, JohnPaul Trotter and Bryce Wilson.

New music

Much the Los Angeles Electric 8's repertoire consists of new works including microtonal and minimalist music. They have performed music by Frank J. Oteri, Wayne Siegel, Randall Kohl, Cornelius Boots, Peter Yates, Derrick Spiva, and Nathaniel Braddock.

Arrangements of older music

The Los Angeles Electric 8 produces arrangements of older works for their ensemble including Johann Sebastian Bach, Felix Mendelssohn, Dmitri Shostakovich, Giovanni Domenico Rognoni Taeggio, Giovanni Gabrieli, Olivier Messiaen, Igor Stravinsky and Benjamin Franklin. Their repertoire adapts music that was originally intended for strings, organ, gamelan, bells, wind ensembles, classical guitars and choirs.[1]

History

The octet began a 2004 classical performance electric guitars organized by the Los Angeles Modern Guitar Project.[2] The concert included students of guitarist Peter Yates playing a West Coast premiere of three new works by Chicago composer/guitarist Nathaniel Braddock.[3] In 2006, four of those guitarists—Ben Harbert, Philip Graulty, Chelsea Green and Felix Salazar—performed for a memorial concert for the late composer James Tenney. From there, they constituted the rest of the group.

Recordings

See also

References

  1. ↑ Archived January 6, 2009 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ↑ Archived January 6, 2009 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ↑ "Contemporary rock reviews". Psychemusic.org. Retrieved 2015-03-10.

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