Guitar Paint by John Oliver

This is an album about ambient textures and atmospheres on which I play electric guitar and 10-string classical guitar. But there is a lot of electronic music throughout the album. The opening track features delay pedals and deep environmental soundscapes; a couple of tracks feature a 10-string classical guitar fed through through my electronic music system to generate rhythmic drive, pulsations, and undulating texture. "The Diminishing Arctic" takes you to a cold nirvana of pure tunings. On two tracks, the guitar is so chopped up we barely recognize it. The closing track takes the listener out on what is almost a progrock track. As you might expect, this is not really a "guitar album."

As you can tell from the titles, I am an environmentalist. I am fascinated by the rhythms and sounds of nature and man-made inventions. Although I love a really good, simple melody, and rhythmically active music, this album feels more like sound painting.

For the guitar geeks out there, I play Godin electric MIDI guitar in standard tuning, as well as playing microtonal patches on Roland's GR-55 synthesizer. I play 10-string classical guitar on tracks 4 & 6.

For the synth geeks, a Eurorack system is used for tracks 2, 4, 5, & 6.

electronic and soundscape music projects, ranging from classic musique concrète, to granular synthesis, and dark ambient. My instrumental and vocal music appears on several other labels and compilations. See my web site for details.

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