Music

Guitar duet

Banned...unbound

20187′20″

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Guitar duet

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About the work

Banned... unbound is a work for guitar duet. Bound together by time-band durations, the two guitars exchange frantic gestures built from dense chords, rapid lines, and tapping on the fingerboard.

These percussive actions produce a delicate string resonance that contrasts with the work’s more forceful and hurried material. The two performers move between independence and close coordination, passing gestures back and forth within the flexible temporal structure.

Frantic gestures pass between the two guitars, moving between thick chords, rapid lines, and delicate fingerboard resonance.

Performance history

Rosetta Contemporary Ensemble

Kosuke Hashizume and Mitsuo Nagata · Kyoto Art Center · Kyoto, Japan

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