g-string blues
BLUES FOR G STRING
Performer: Syd Kitchen
Instrument: G string of electric guitar
Instructions: Improvise the blues for 4min33sec
BLUES FOR G STRING is a performer-specific intervention that calls into question the notion of the “composer” in a period when recording sound technology has rendered the Western notational system obsolete. The piece is also a sly homage to John Cage whose 4′33″ is the watershed composition that puts into motion the gradual self-effacement of the “composer” into obsolescence. By strictly timing the improviser’s performance to 4min33sec, BLUES FOR G STRING effectively performs the Cage composition as well, in parallel sequence, as it were. The choice of Syd Kitchen as improviser for this piece is self-explanatory, he is South Africa’s non-pareil guitar virtuoso.
aryan kaganof
african noise foundation
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