Occupation(s) Chamber ensemble Record label Los Angeles Electric 8 | Years active 2006-present | |
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Website losangeleselectric8.com Members Felix Salazar
JohnPaul Trotter
Eric Kiersnowski
Andy Lee
Nicholas Deyoe
Gabe Deutsch
Tom Frazer
Jeremy Kerner Past members Brandon Schmidt (2013)
Hugo Aguayo (2010-2013)
Ken Rosser (2009, 2012-2013)
Tom Farrell (2009-2013)
Philip Graulty (2006-2013)
Kai Kurosawa (2010-2013)
Marc Nimoy (2006-2013)
Chelsea Green (2006-2012)
Alexander Sack (2008-2010)
Ben Harbert (2006-2010)
Andy Nathan (2007-2009)
Brandon Mayer (2006-2008)
Bryce Wilson (2006-2007) Origin Los Angeles, California, United States Albums Interlocking Textures, Imagined Overtures Genres Classical music, Post-rock Profiles | ||
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The Los Angeles Electric 8 is an electric guitar chamber octet founded in 2006. The group is based in Los Angeles, California. The founding members are Philip Graulty, Chelsea Green, Ben Harbert, Brandon Mayer, Marc Nimoy, Felix Salazar, JohnPaul Trotter and Bryce Wilson.
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New music
Much the Los Angeles Electric 8's repertoire consists of new works including microtonal and minimalist music. They have performed music by Frank J. Oteri, Wayne Siegel, Randall Kohl, Cornelius Boots, Peter Yates, Derrick Spiva, and Nathaniel Braddock.
Arrangements of older music
The Los Angeles Electric 8 produces arrangements of older works for their ensemble including Johann Sebastian Bach, Felix Mendelssohn, Dmitri Shostakovich, Giovanni Domenico Rognoni Taeggio, Giovanni Gabrieli, Olivier Messiaen, Igor Stravinsky and Benjamin Franklin. Their repertoire adapts music that was originally intended for strings, organ, gamelan, bells, wind ensembles, classical guitars and choirs.
History
The octet began a 2004 classical performance electric guitars organized by the Los Angeles Modern Guitar Project. The concert included students of guitarist Peter Yates playing a West Coast premiere of three new works by Chicago composer/guitarist Nathaniel Braddock. In 2006, four of those guitarists—Ben Harbert, Philip Graulty, Chelsea Green and Felix Salazar—performed for a memorial concert for the late composer James Tenney. From there, they constituted the rest of the group.
Recordings
Songs
Octet - Op 11: ScherzoInterlocking Textures · 2012
G-String FetishImagined Overtures · 2011
Rational Basis2015