MARCO OPPEDISANO, electric guitar, electric guitar samples
and electric sounds KIMBERLY FIEDELMAN, vocal samples
Influences
Too many to mention
Sounds Like
I am a classically trained composer/guitarist that composes
works primarily with electric guitar. The works here focus on
my use of live electric guitar in an electroacoustic setting with
a playback portion that consist of various samples including
electric guitar.
CDBABY LINK for DAVID LEE MYERS & MARCO OPPEDISANO: Tesla at Coney Island
OKS Recordings of North America is pleased to announce the release of Tesla At Coney Island, our eighth major release. This CD will available through cdbaby.com as well as Amazon.com, Los Angeles’ Amoeba Records, Austin’s End of An Ear, and Waterloo, New York’s Other Music and Kim’s Underground. It will be available for digital download at iTunes, Napster, YahooMusic, and many other digital download services.
Tesla At Coney Island is a unique sonic collaboration between one of the great forefathers of modern experimental, noise, and avant-garde music, David Lee Myers and a guitar hero from the land of tomorrow, composer, Marco Oppedisano. Myers brings his signature feedback sources and found sounds, and Oppedisano drives his intense guitar tonalities straight at them for a head-on collision. With this release the two obviously throw caution to the wind and set out to explore whatever audio frontiers please them, genres be damned.
We are invited into a bad horror movie with the opening track, Hyperpituitary Giant, as appropriated sound predominates and a full orchestra slides across the deck of the Titanic on its way down. Sonar makes an attempt to track it to no avail, and apparently a seance is held in the effort, but the melancholy final notes indicate that the string section sleeps with the fishes. Pheromones begins with the promise of something a bit more conventional, but as cascading guitar notes become cascading water drops and untuned bells, Oppedisano's screaming guitar scratches fitfully at the walls, creating an atmosphere of unease. Roog fittingly borrows its title from a Philip K. Dick story, and a sci-fi feel is evoked as if by Morton Subotnick's bastard son. Events progress, and we are perhaps relieved when the UFO vanishes into a cloud bank. On Fling Away The Shell, Myers lays down a dreamy fog of ambient sound, but as if in disagreement Oppedisano's guitars storm in and trash the place. Kind of ECM in hell, but in a pleasant way, if that's possible. With the next track, suddenly the duo's real intention begins to dawn on us—Throttle Body Lifter wrenches us off the rails into heavy metal not-so-intelligent dance music (HMNSIDM), and we realize that we have been purposefully cast adrift off Coney Island with a lightning rod in our hands.
Washes of feedback and crazed electric tones waft in and out, interwoven with tasty guitar wails as we await the next bend in this ever-so-interesting crooked road. Throughout the thirteen tracks, we are treated to (threatened by?) alternating rhythmic patterns, noise barrages, looping Chinese finger-puzzles and...what? A lovely acoustic guitar piece? Well, with grating feedback accompaniment, of course! Finally, Myers and Oppedisano leave us with Love's Diet, scattering a boxful of Scrabble pieces at our feet (and perhaps making a mockery of John Donne), posing the question, what is to be made of all this? It's worth asking, and in the case of Tesla At Coney Island, it's a journey worth taking.
This is Marco Oppedisano’s second release with OKSRNA, following his acclaimed solo collection 2007’s Electroacoustic Compositions 1999-2005. Oppedisano’s second solo release, The Ominous Corner and the debut of his electro-acoustic improvising trio BIOS (with Bill Byrne of The Painful Leg Injuries and John Ibarra of El Plan De Aguavodka) are both awaiting release on OKSRNA later this year. This is David Lee Myers’ first release with OKSRNA, but his groundbreaking, often gorgeous and challenging work has been circulating for over twenty years. This CD release marks the latest major release from OKS Recordings of North America a label run by Bill Byrne and his longtime collaborator, Jonah Goldstein.
CDBABY LINK for MARCO OPPEDISANO: Electroacoustic Compositions for Electric Guitar
OKS Recordings of North America is pleased to announce the release of
Electroacoustic Compositions for Electric Guitar, our fifth major
release. This CD-R is now available through cdbaby.com as well as
Amazon.com, Los Angeles’ Amoeba Records, New York’s Other Music and
Kim’s Underground. It will be available for digital download at
iTunes, Napster, Yahoo Music and many other digital download services.
Marco Oppedisano is a composer, a classically trained guitarist and
producer. Marco has worked with Oren Fader, Tom Buckner and Kevin R.
Gallagher, and he has performed the music of Glenn Branca. Oppedisano’s
music has been described by Time Out New York as “…mind-bending music
for electronics and guitar…hear Oppedisano’s intricate roar.” Tokafi
said, “…this is full-on, in-your-face and almost confrontational
music…Marco Oppedisano's music goes straight to your heart.”
This collection chronicles almost a decade’s worth of Marco’s
electroacoustic music. For Electroacoustic Compositions for Electric
Guitar, Marco abandoned live performance and found a paradise that
mixes extended technique, digital processing, and pointillist editing.
In some places he achieves a beauty that rivals a Fennesz style of
ecstasy and in others a distorted abstraction that could be compared to
Keith Rowe, but Marco’s inspired ability to shape shift his guitar into
so many beasts is a unique twist that is all his own. Each of these
pieces was primarily sourced from his electric guitar or bass playing
and finely tuned for months or years, much like the work of a sculptor
or masterpiece painter.
In his epic Time Lapse, Marco’s sound palette covers a great deal of
territory starting with deep tones that resemble a didgeridoo far more
than any stringed instrument before turning into a garden of tapewarped
squiggles that recall Tod Dockstader’s classic work. Karmicom is
a powerful piece displaying some of Marco’s most fierce guitar work
that ends in a swirl of operatic vocals provided by the only other
musician to appear on this recording, Marco’s wife, Kimberly. The End
is Near is a jump-cut distillation of the broad range that Marco is
capable of, easily hopping from gorgeous soundscapes to Zeppelin-style
riffing.
Recently, Marco has started an electroacoustic improvisational trio
with OKSRNA label-mates Bill Byrne (The Painful Leg Injuries) and John
Ibarra (El Plan De Aguavodka) called BIOS. They have recorded an album,
Retiring to Palermo to Make Apple Whine, due in late 2007. Marco has
had his compositional works performed by the Fireworks Ensemble, Glass
Farm Ensemble, Morris Lang and The Brooklyn College Percussion
Ensemble, and The Zyryab Guitar Quartet of Portugal. In October 2006
and February 2007, Oppedisano headlined concerts at Dominic Frasca's
The Monkey NYC featuring his electroacoustic works for electric guitar
and works for live electric guitar and CD playback.
This CD-R release marks the latest major release from OKS Recordings of
North America, a label run by Bill Byrne and his longtime collaborator,
Jonah Goldstein. OKSRNA specializes in artist-created CD-R releases
that cater to the tech-savvy listener who is ready for new arenas of
creativity for musical expression. SKIMMING THE SURFACE - Marco Oppedisano
“...mindbending music for guitar and electronics...
hear Oppedisano’s intricate roar.” – Time Out New York
"...Unlike many others who use the guitar as the
principle tool of their music, he cares little for caressing
the listener with warm washed of brushed guitar strings
- this is full-on, in-your-face and almost confrontational
music, which however never sees salvation in total
mayhem, but in creating an immediate emotional and
endorphinal experience. It is all the more remarkable,
then, that he has never allowed himself to be blinded by
the love for guitars and still considers the human voice
the most expressive instrument. His CV may take twists
and turns, but Marco Oppedisano's music goes straight
to your heart." - Tokafi
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Marco Oppedisano is a composer, guitarist and producer
with ample recording and performance experience as a
guitarist in music ranging from rock/pop, jazz, hip hop,
club/dance music, contemporary concert music, free
improvisation, film music and musical theater.
Oppedisano performs with the BIOS trio and has performed with
various contemporary music ensembles and musicians in the New
York City area. He has had works performed by the Fireworks
Ensemble, Glass Farm Ensemble, Morris Lang and The Brooklyn
College Percussion Ensemble, The Zyryab Guitar Quartet of
Portugal, and distinguished guitarists; Oren Fader and Kevin R.
Gallagher. He has recorded for Capstone Records (Vox Novus
2003 60x60 project), performed in Glenn Branca's pieces for
100 guitars and in the US premiere of Guitars D'Amour by
Glenn Branca. Oppedisano also is featured with Tom Buckner
on an electroacoustic composition entitled, Hoodlum Priest by
Noah Creshevsky (released on the Mutable Music label in 2003).
In October 2006, Oppedisano held a concert at Dominic Frasca's
The Monkey NYC featuring his electroacoustic workd for electric
guitar and works for live electric guitar and CD playback.
Television appearances by Oppedisano include an improvisation
concert at Brooklyn College aired on CUNY TV in December
2005 and for a special called Deadly Women, aired on the
Discovery Channel in February 2005, featuring an opera scene
by Dennis Bathory-Kitsz. He has done radio interviews for Kalvos
and Damian (www.kalvos.org), and had works programmed on
WNYC "New Sounds," CBC Radio"The Signal with Laurie Brown,"
Contemporary Classical Internet Radio (live 365), and many other
internet radio stations. In September 2005 and December 2006,
Oppedisano performed live with Josh Weinstein on WOR710's
Joey Reynolds Show in New York City. In December 2006 he
performed with Josh Weinstein on Vin Scelsa's long running
radio program, "Idiot's Delight." In October 2006, Oppedisano
was featured in an online interview with Urban Guitar 'Zine and
in April 2007 did a 15 Questions Interview with Tokafi.
Oppedisano work as a producer and assistant producer include
projects, FIRST FLIGHT, a solo classical guitar disc by the prolific
New York City based guitarist, Oren Fader. He has worked as
assistant producer on an album called DANCE MIX by the Fireworks
Ensemble. His full length CD, ELECTROACOUSTIC COMPOSITIONS
FOR ELECTRIC GUITAR was released in June 2007 on the OKS
Recordings of North America label. His works have been performed
and heard in various areas around the world and are all registered
with ASCAP.
Oppedisano is a native of Brooklyn, New York. He holds a B.A in
Music Composition from the Brooklyn College Conservatory of Music
and an M.A in Music Composition from the Queens College Aaron
Copland School of Music.
At the risk of being lazy, I completely concur with everything Ken has succinctly said about 'Telsa At Coney Island' But would like to add that anyone visiting this page should buy it immediately!
I always look forward to your stuff, man. It usually fits my mood perfectly. I think that indicates the strength of our friendship. It's great music. I’ll have to write DLM and tell him the same.
You really seem to gravitate towards these sonic juxtapositions... ambient-lilt loops with distorted, high end gtr flourishes on top...it’s a standard in your vocabulary.
The production is perfect, as usual. This is one of the more successful collabs I’ve heard in a long while. And I’ll be damned if “Throttle Body Lifter” isn’t still a fave of mine!! It’s badass. I would have to say “Chopsocky” is second on my list...ya know of course that’s the name of the debut album from NY’s own “Bosho” in fact, it sounds like them, a little. “Drastic…” is also beautiful.
I have no idea how you guys managed half of this stuff. The sound edits and processing are beyond Venus....just awesome!
I think I know your sound well enough now to where I can distinguish between you and David...I think. But everything meshes so seamlessly, things are often (sonically) indecipherable.
I am thankful that there are guitarists just like YOU, Marco, few and far between, that realize the necessity in subordinating the guitar to the compositional vision.
Also, Tesla’s a hero of mine, so the title works well, as far as I’m concerned!
Hi Marco, How have you been ! I hate to see time flighing by, leaving aside friends and projects : why don't we have 100 lives in one to fullfill it all !? Instead we are left with the only option : enjoy every moments of this single one... I hope you do & for the rest, we'll see what can be, All the best my friend, Ivan
Thank you very much Marco for listening and leaving a comment ! I closed my other page down, but i missed some music and people that touched me and you are absolutely one of them ! All the best to you and yours Anders
thanks for your comment and now I put a new one with Phil Ogison I really enjoy doing this song with Phil he is a great musician love is style have a nice day Marco !
