Guitaring
1st performance: Artculture Resource Centre, Toronto, 1983.
An electric guitar (fed into a fuzz & distortion box ) is de-tuned and re-tuned at high volume creating sustained and distorted feedback sounds. The strings are eventually de-tuned to the point where they dangle loosely and are then tightened by pulling them across the guitar pick-ups, so that the pick-ups become the bridge for the strings. This creates a very distorted feedback effect. The piece is improvised according to this plan.
© Gordon Monahan 1978-83
photo by Chris Devonshire