Karl Montevirgen

Karl Montevirgen (b. August 10, 1969) is an American Composer who specializes in improvisational, experimental guitar work. Karl Montevirgen's album "War Machines" was released in 2007 under the "Black Phone Label" [http://web.mac.com/blackphonerecords/iWeb/Site/Catalogue.html] . Karl has organized the Unmapping of the Electric Guitar event in Eagle Rock, California that brought together the guitar works of Michael Pisaro, Rick Cox, Chas Smith, Jeremy Drake, Michael Jon Fink [http://michaeljonfink.com/listen.html] , and Karl Montevirgen. [Woodard, Josef. [http://articles.latimes.com/2004/may/08/entertainment/et-woodard8 "The eclectic electric guitar".] "Los Angeles Times".] Karl Montevirgen has performed at the Earjam 3 in Pasadena's Furious Theatre Space curated by Julie Adler. [http://www.hertz-lion.com/archive/21june2002.html] His collaborative work with artist and filmmaker Chris Peters [http://www.calarts.edu/faculty_bios/art/faculty/chrispeters/chrispeters] in their film 'Captain Scurvy'has been put on exhibition at Berlin's ARTBANG 2008. [http://www.artbang.de/] Karl Montevirgen participated in the so.cal.sonic sound.Commons Orchestra in Long Beach California in 2005. [http://music.mills.edu/pipermail/newmusic/2005-April/012899.html] . Other venues that have featured his improvisational work have been "Line Space Line" [http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/entity.php?id=1092] and "Dangerous Curve Gallery" [http://www.dangerouscurve.org/history.html] in Downtown Los Angeles.

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