MARCO OPPEDISANO, electric guitar, electric guitar samples
and electric sounds KIMBERLY FIEDELMAN, vocal samples
Influences
Anything and everything.
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.
OKS Recordings of North America is pleased to announce The Ominous Corner, our ninth major release. This CD will soon be available through cdbaby.com as well as Amazon.com, Los Angeles’ Amoeba Records, Austin, Texas’s End of An Ear, Waterloo, New York’s Other Music and Kim’s Underground. It will also be available for digital download at iTunes and
many other digital download services.
Marco Oppedisano is a composer and avant-guitarist who combines gorgeous classical structures with dynamic and experimental techniques. He has previously released a collection of solo recordings, Electroacoustic Compositions for Electric Guitar, and a collaboration with David Lee Myers, Tesla At Coney Island, both on OKSRNA.
The Ominous Corner, his second solo release for OKSRNA, marks a major shift in the work of this gifted musician. His work has become more focused, centering around his live playing. His musique concrète constructions are a jumping off point; a foundation for his mastery.He has processed his influences, such as Fred Frith, Marc Ribot and David Torn, and lifted his
stylized playing into a symphonic grandeur along the lines of Mahler, particularly in the album’s title track.
Oppedisano’s work can sometimes be gorgeous and pastoral, yet his love of the spiky noise and squeal of the New York avant-garde scene balances the beauty with chaos in a profoundly exhilarating way. Marco’s strength is in his discipline to play in a way that avoids showiness, yet highlights his incredible chops. Marco weaves his notes and noise like brush strokes in Cityscape, painting lines like the NYC skyline viewed from a helicopter hovering above.
Throughout this album Marco lifts the listener up into the stratosphere with weightless and lovely sound works. The Cageian radios that surface in and out of Imaginary Portal and the morning has risen’ feeling though out Renewal are just two of the many moments in this collection where Oppedisano achieves a lift-off like Tod Dockstader’s recent Aerial recordings,
classic Fennesz or Keith Rowe.
Oppedisano’s previous solo release, Electroacoustic Compositions for Electric Guitar, was met with wide acclaim. Dave X of Startling Moniker said, “...(Oppedisano) demonstrates his ability to generate an extremely broad range of sounds from his instrument, from sonorous aquatic bells to swarming clouds of electronic chirping”. Tobias Fischer of Tokafi.com said, “Like a
radio dial being turned by an invisible hand, the music switches from sound art to Metal Riffs, then gradually into waves of engulfing drones and a sequence of Frippertronics and consoling backwards chords.”
This CD-R marks the latest major release from the Brooklyn-based OKS Recordings of North America label run by Bill Byrne and his longtime collaborator, Jonah Goldstein. OKSRNA specializes in artist created CD-R releases that cater to tech-savvy listeners who are ready for new arenas of creativity for musical expression.
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.
“...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 his Guitars D'Amour. Oppedisano also is featured with Tom Buckner on an electroacoustic composition titled, “Hoodlum Priest” by Noah Creshevsky (released on the Mutable Music label in 2003). In 2006 and 2007, Oppedisano held various concerts featuring his electroacoustic works for electric guitar and works for live electric guitar and CD playback.
Television appearances by Oppedisano include the Discovery Channel and CUNY TV. He has done radio interviews for Kalvos and Damian (www.kalvos.org), and had compositions programmed on WNYC "New Sounds," BBC 6 Music "Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone," CBC Radio 2 "The Signal with Laurie Brown," Contemporary Classical Internet Radio (live 365), and various other internet radio stations. Oppedisano has also performed live with Josh Weinstein on WOR710's Joey Reynolds Show in New York City and Vin Scelsa's long running radio program, "Idiot's Delight." In 2006, Oppedisano was featured in an online interview with Urban Guitar 'Zine and in 2007,
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 debut CD, ELECTROACOUSTIC COMPOSITIONS FOR ELECTRIC GUITAR was released in June 2007 on the OKS Recordings of North America label (OKSRNA).
CD releases in 2008 on OKSRNA include TESLA AT THE CONEY ISLAND (with David Lee Myers) and THE OMINOUS CORNER. His works have been performed and heard in various areas around the world and are all published through Out Your Ear (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.
Hi, I heard a beautiful work, listen to it several times before words came about it. Guitar is a difficult intrument to deal with for orchestration. Little "tessiture", a sort of trap you escape with talent. Proud to be friends. Bruno
if angels really are the manifest object at the other side of the electro magnetic fence, then a novelist like John Keel had no more of a heads-up on their silvery whereabouts than a Marco Oppedisano's Visi-Sonor-like guitaristic exploits......and hey, if Sci-Fi is little more than a rumor spread about the future by empathetic empaths in the half-know, then you need to look no further into the shadowy neaherlands of their ruminations for a more imaginative inspiration than the distance from which Marco sits from his amplifier, ebow, and whammy pedal......one of my faves, so PLEASE----------------->check it!
hello Marco. Good to hear from you. We look forward to meeting and hopefully playing together in the not too distant future. Best wishes to you and your in your quests this year. Best regards. -Frank
Ciao Marco, Happy New Year! Best wishes for some great music music in 2009. My resolution is to play in NYC a few times this year so we will met again. Dobbiamo prendere un cafe insieme quest ano. Un abbraccio, Gary
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