{"id":2327,"date":"2018-08-13T12:02:30","date_gmt":"2018-08-13T16:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christophertrapani.com\/wordpresssite\/?page_id=2327"},"modified":"2018-08-13T12:02:30","modified_gmt":"2018-08-13T16:02:30","slug":"shotgun-shoegaze","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/christophertrapani.com\/wordpresssite\/shotgun-shoegaze\/","title":{"rendered":"Shotgun Shoegaze"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"container\">\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><strong>Shotgun Shoegaze\u00a0(2018)<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">for four electric guitars and electronics [13:40]<\/span><\/h3>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"padding-left: 30px; padding-right: 60px;\"><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><i>Shotgun Shoegaze<\/i> draws its inspiration from two places: the blues slide guitar tradition of the Mississippi Delta, and the distortion-drenched swells of shoegaze, born in the late 1980\u2019s in the British Isles. Four guitars play a wide range of timbres, all of which are fed to the <a href=\"http:\/\/christophertrapani.com\/wordpresssite\/loop-sculptor\">LoopSculptor<\/a>, a custom-made patch in Max that allows loops to be transposed and time-warped in a flexible fashion. Isolated harmonics coalesce into chords; Lines disintegrate into granulated fragments&#8230; These loops are dynamically spatialized, moving in multiple trajectories throughout the hall. The result is a dense, constantly shifting soundscape, slowly evolving as one loop overlaps with the next\u2014all captured live; nothing is pre-recorded.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><center> \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 <\/center><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><i>Shotgun Shoegaze<\/i> was commissioned for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zwerm.be\/\">Zwerm<\/a> by Transit New Music Festival (Leuven, Belgium), supported by the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation. It was premiered in Essen, Germany at the Ruhrtriennale on August 21, 2017, on an evening-length program titled &#8220;Our Ears Felt Like Canyons,&#8221; with lighting design by Lucas Van Haesbroeck. Repeat performances took place at Transit Festival (Leuven, Belgium), Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (Huddersfield, UK), and Spor Festival (Aarhus, Denmark).<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/christophertrapani.com\/wordpresssite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_0229-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"563\" height=\"422\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-2332\" srcset=\"http:\/\/christophertrapani.com\/wordpresssite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_0229-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/christophertrapani.com\/wordpresssite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_0229-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/christophertrapani.com\/wordpresssite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_0229-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 563px) 100vw, 563px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/christophertrapani.com\/wordpresssite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_0245-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"666\" class=\"alignright size-large wp-image-2333\" \/><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shotgun Shoegaze\u00a0(2018) for four electric guitars and electronics [13:40] Shotgun Shoegaze draws its inspiration from two places: the blues slide guitar tradition of the Mississippi Delta, and the distortion-drenched swells<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/christophertrapani.com\/wordpresssite\/shotgun-shoegaze\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Shotgun Shoegaze&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-fullwidth-noheader.php","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2327","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - 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