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Keith RoweKeith Rowe is a British free improvisation guitarist. He is one of the few relatively well-known musicians (along with perhaps Derek Bailey and Evan Parker) in the small but dedicated free improvisation community. Rowe began his career playing jazz in the early 1960's--notably with Mike Westbrook--but grew tired of what he considered the form's limitations. Rowe gradually expanded into free jazz and free improvisation, eventually abandoning conventional guitar technique. Rather, he developed various prepared guitar techniques: placing the guitar flat on a table and manipulating the strings, body and pickups in unorthodox ways to produce sounds described as dark, brooding, compelling, expansive and alien. A January, 1997 feature in Guitar Player magazine described a Rowe performance as "resemble a surgeon operating on a patient." Rowe sometimes incorporates live radio broadcasts into his performances, including shortwave radio and number stations. Some account report Rowe's guitar technique was an influence on Pink Floyd founder Syd Barrett: "Taking his cues from experimental guitarist Keith Rowe of AMM, Barrett strived to push his music farther and farther out into the zone of complete abstraction." http://www.geocities.com/julienindica/lost2.html Rowe is a founding member of AMM and M.I.M.E.O. He trained as a visual artist, and Rowe's paintings have been featured on several of his own albums. External links Rowe, Keith
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