5.1 Surround Guitar
His instrument, an electric concert guitar, is the result of several years of development in cooperation with Stevens Custom Guitars and Huber Amps. Though similar in size to a classical concert guitar, it is made to sound like a warm electric guitar, but with a broader spectrum of harmonics at higher frequencies. It also offers the option to create real 5.1 surround sound.
The 5.1 surround guitar is a hybrid between classical concert guitar and electric guitar. It follows the idea of combining subjectively appreciated aspects of the guitar, and offers various musical possibilities. It makes it possible to send each string of its six strings to one separate channel of an amplifier, and further, to six separate loudspeakers in a room. It is played with finger technique on medium steel strings and sounds like an electric guitar. The instrument was developed by contemporary guitarist, improviser, and composer Andreas Paolo Perger, and built by Stevens Custom Guitars in 1998. The instrument was presented at the Frankfurt music fair in 1999. The first radio live transmission (surround > stereo), and the first surround live concert took place in Munich 2002. After several more years of technical and musical development, the Huber preamplification was added in 2007. Surround guitar concerts in Vienna 2007, Prague 2008, Munich, Hamburg, Münster, Lüneburg, Meaford/ Ontario/ Canada, and Berlin 2009, followed.
The solo guitar album Relief, recorded 2011 at "Studio am Fernsehturm" in Berlin, represents ten improvised compositions on the instrument in CD quality. The title refers to the acoustic relief arising, while listening to the music with stereo headphones.
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