Zach Andrews is a guitarist and improviser whose work integrates live electronics and environmental sound. Each project is conceived as a live performance shaped by place, with themes drawn from the immediate environment. Through the use of everyday sounds, Zach explores the tension and harmony between the natural world and human-made noise. He often incorporates stillness, silence, and reduction as counterpoints—creating space that accentuates the voices of his instruments and the surrounding sonic landscape.
Artist Location: Long Beach, CA
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CIRCUIT RÉSONNANT is a performance oscillating between harmonious and discordant. A duo of acoustic guitar and chaotic synthesizer. There is no fixed composition. The performance is completely improvised and unfolds differently every-time depending on the environment. Both the performer and the machine, though, are not truly random, and like chaos, are built by deterministic systems, greatly influenced by changes to conditions.
During the performance textures and timbres blend together from both acoustic and synthesized sounds, which at times are starkly different and strikingly similar. Melding technology, techniques and modalities that span decades, the performance treats time as layered rather than linear. Histories fold into the present, suggesting alternate continuities and futures.
One night event November 15th
Belmont Shore, LB, CA
Sound, Noise, Echo is an improvisational performance that explores the space between quiet dynamics and stillness. Using electric guitar, amplification, micro-samplers, and live electronics, it focuses on subtle texture and restrained movement as sound resonates, then fades into the surrounding world.
The performance blends with the sounds of the environment, merging natural and human-made sounds into the composition. The natural and urban soundscapes help shape an evolving sound. Rather than existing separately, the music and the space interact, influencing and responding to one another.