nc Electric Presents David Torn Solo Guitar Performance at Cat's Cradle

Part One is a guitar clinic, lecture, and Q & A.
Part Two is a Solo guitar performance.

David Torn is a composer, texturalist, guitarist, producer & whatnot of actual international stature, renowned for his unique musical voice which seems to span and un-define a range of idioms and styles.

His characterful and compositionally textural work has had material impact and influence upon both film scoring - through his own scores, in addition to his creative contributions to scores by Carter Burwell, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Cliff Martinez, Howard Shore, Mark Isham and others; - and generally, upon contemporary electric, electro-acoustic and electronic music. ...

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Part One is a guitar clinic, lecture, and Q & A.
Part Two is a Solo guitar performance.

David Torn is a composer, texturalist, guitarist, producer & whatnot of actual international stature, renowned for his unique musical voice which seems to span and un-define a range of idioms and styles.

His characterful and compositionally textural work has had material impact and influence upon both film scoring - through his own scores, in addition to his creative contributions to scores by Carter Burwell, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Cliff Martinez, Howard Shore, Mark Isham and others; - and generally, upon contemporary electric, electro-acoustic and electronic music.

In addition to the medium of film scoring, David's creative contributions have continued to grace and assist the works of other musical artists-of-note as diverse as David Bowie, Tim Berne, Jeff Beck, Mick Karn, David Sylvian, John Legend, Tori Amos, Sting, Madonna, Meshell Ndegeocello, John Popper, Jan Garbarek, Jarboe, Laurie Anderson, Kaki King, KD Lang, Chocolate Genius, Don Cherry, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Tony Levin, Andy Rinehart, Dave Douglas, Manu Katche and more.

David was educated by Leonard Bernstein (Music for Young Composers) and privately by John Abercrombie, Pat Martino, Paul Weiss, and Arthur Basile. He has been the recipient of many awards, including a Grammy for a Jeff Beck recording which David composed and mixed.

In 2006, David returned to recording for Manfred Eicher and ECM Records.

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