Giacomo Fiore presents "Lost Horse Wash Drone," a series of works composed during one week in residence at the Lou Harrison House in Joshua Tree California, contemplating matters of tuning, improvisation, and our environment. The music is built on small just intonation modes, played on fretless electric and refretted resophonic guitar with live electronic manipulation, and accompanied by field recordings from day-long hikes into the desert, bringing environmental and improvised sound together. Fiore will also perform a selection of solo guitar works by the late composer Larry Polansky.
Italian-born guitarist and musicologist Giacomo Fiore has premiered more than three dozen new works for justly-tuned, electric, and classical guitars, and released several recordings for Other Minds, Populist, Cold Blue, Pinna, Spectropol, Paper Garden Records, and his own impressum. As a scholar his research focuses on U.S. experimental music, intonation, and performance; he has published articles in Music Theory Spectrum, the Journal of the Society for the American Music, and TEMPO, and teaches a wide range of historical and practical music courses at the University of San Francisco and UC Santa Cruz.