- Marco Oppedisano
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Marco Oppedisano 
Background information Born November 20, 1971 Origin Brooklyn, New York, United States Genres Experimental music, electronic music, Electroacoustic music Occupations Musician, Guitarist, Composer, Instructor Instruments Guitar Labels OKS Recordings of North America Website [1] Marco Oppedisano (born November 20, 1971 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American guitarist and composer whose compositions focus on the innovative use of electric guitar in the genre of electroacoustic music. Since 1999, his musique concrète/acousmatic music compositions have utilized multitrack recording and extended performance techniques for electric guitar and bass. In addition to musique concrète, recent compositions by Oppedisano also consist of "live" electric guitar in combination with a fixed playback of various electronic, acoustic (specifically female voice courtesy of Kimberly Fiedelman) and sampled sounds.
His electroacoustic music has been described as “...mindbending music for guitar and electronics... hear Oppedisano’s intricate roar.” [1] (Time Out New York) and "....in-your-face and almost confrontational music, which however never sees salvation in total mayhem, but in creating an immediate emotional and endorphinal experience..." [2](Tokafi)
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Biography
Oppedisano started playing guitar at the age of 12 and was primarily a rock guitarist before entering studies at the Brooklyn College Conservatory of Music. After two years of classical guitar study with Michael Cedric Smith at Brooklyn College, he completed composition studies there with Tania Leon, Charles Dodge, Noah Creshevsky (Hyperrealism (music)) and George Brunner.
Oppedisano completed graduate studies at the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College obtaining his Masters Degree in Music Composition. There he studied with Henry Weinberg and Thea Musgrave.
From 1999-2003, as a member of the Brooklyn College Electroacoustic Ensemble, Oppedisano used the facility at the Center for Computer Music at Brooklyn College to create his electroacoustic works focusing on sounds derived only from electric guitar and electric bass. From 2003–present, Oppedisano has exclusively worked out of his home recording studio in Queens, NY.
Since 2002, he has also had ensemble works performed by the Fireworks Ensemble, Glass Farm Ensemble, Brooklyn College Percussion Ensemble (directed by Morris Lang), Zyryab Guitar Quartet and solo guitar compositions performed by Kevin R. Gallagher and Oren Fader. As a guitarist he has performed in compositions by notable composers/guitarists, Nick Didkovsky and Glenn Branca.
In 2008, Oppedisano was included in a book of guitarists called State of The Axe: Guitar Masters in Photographs and Words (Museum Fine Arts Houston, October 2008 - ISBN: 978-0300142112) by renowned photographer Ralph Gibson.
Oppedisano presently lives in Sunnyside, Queens with his wife Kimberly Fiedelman and daughter, Jillian Maisie Oppedisano (b.2010).
Discography
- Mechanical Uprising - OKS Recordings of North America - (2010: OKSRNA - 019)
- The Ominous Corner - OKS Recordings of North America - (2008: OKSRNA - 016)
- Tesla at Coney Island with David Lee Myers - OKS Recordings of North America - (2008: OKSRNA - 017)
- Electroacoustic Compositions for Electric Guitar - OKS Recordings of North America - (2007: OKSRNA - 007)
Contributions
- [{ }], Berger Rond (Vincent Bergeron) (2011: VVSBR09)
- Retiring to Palermo to Make Apple Whine (CD) and Forever Dividing and Evolving (live DVD), BIOS - OKS Recordings of North America - (2009: OKSRNA - 012)
- Le savant devait arriver avant songeur, Berger Rond (Vincent Bergeron) (2008: VVSBR04)
- Philosophie Fantasmagorique, Berger Rond (Vincent Bergeron) (2007: VVSBR03)
- The Unraveling Begins, "From Here to Obliquity," Various Artists (2008: GtrOblq) Psychopompos
- Post-Minimalism: 4 Countries/19 Composers, "Steel Sky," (2007,Trace Label (France): Trace 024 / 2CD)
- First Flight, "Primo Volo," Oren Fader (2005) (also Producer, Editor and Mastering Engineer)
- Vox Novus 2003 60x60, "The End is Near," (2004, Capstone Records: CPS-8744)
- Hyperrealism, "Hoodlum Priest (with Thomas Buckner)," Noah Creshevsky (2003, Mutable Music: 17516-2)
Selected Interviews and Reviews
- "Interview with Marco Oppedisano," Contemporary Guitars Blog, September 2, 2011
- Review of Mechanical Uprising by Massimo Ricci, Touching Extremes, April 11, 2011
- "The Highs and Lows with Marco Oppedisano," Psychopompos, March 28, 2011
- "Interview with Marco Oppedisano," Tokafi, January 11, 2011
- Reviews of Electroacoustic Compositions for Electric Guitar, The Ominous Corner, Mechanical Uprising and Tesla at Coney Island by Mark S. Tucker, FAME, December 2010, FAME, March 2011
- Review of Mechanical Uprising by Tobias Fischer, Tokafi, September 15, 2010
- Reviews of Electroacoustic Compositions for Electric Guitar and The Ominous Corner by Massimo Ricci, Temporary Fault, February 2010
- CD Feature: The Ominous Corner & Tesla at Coney Island (with David Lee Myers) by Tobias Fischer, Tokafi, March 2009
- Review of Electroacoustic Compositions for Electric Guitar by Tobias Fischer Tokafi, October 2007,
- "A Slice of Bengazegath," Archived radio interview with Kalvos & Damian New Music Bazaar, December 6, 2003
- Review of Electroacoustic Compositions for Electric Guitar by Startling Moniker, July 26, 2007
External links
References
Categories:- 1971 births
- Living people
- American experimental guitarists
- American electronic musicians
- 21st-century classical composers
- Electroacoustic music composers
- Experimental composers
- People from Brooklyn
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