AUDIO SAMPLE

	Went Back To The City
	Et Puis (And Then)

COMPOSER(S)

Mark Laliberte, Rob Theakston, William Van Loo, Christopher Bissonnette, Steve Roy, Christopher McNamara

ENSEMBLE(S)


Thinkbox

ABOUT THIS CD

Thinkbox is a self-curating media collective, created to explore technological works and contemporary media in relation to both gallery and commercial distribution networks. Thinkbox reflects the varied interests of its members. As an enterprise, it is centred on the exploration and innovative use of material and technique to produce works that develop complex questions to simplified answers about art, technology, and the nature of multi-media creation.

Guitar finds the collective Thinkbox exploring the fertile landscape of mixing laptops with guitars in distinct, innovative ways.

The challenge in undertaking this project was to derive, through the use of computers and signal processing, new ways of looking at the well-established tradition of the guitar. Each member of the collective took on the private task of coaxing a body of ‘sound sources’ from what is arguably still the mainstream music industry’s most popular instrument. Then each participating artist developed their own process to recontextualize the modern guitar sound.