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“...mindbending music for guitar and electronics… hear Oppedisano’s intricate roar.” – Time Out New York
"...Unlike many others who use the guitar as the principle tool of their music, he cares little for caressing the listener with warm washed of brushed guitar strings - this is full-on, in-your-face and almost confrontational music, which however never sees salvation in total mayhem, but in creating an immediate emotional and endorphinal experience. It is all the more remarkable, then, that he has never allowd himself to be blinded by the love for guitars and still considers the human voice the most expressive instrument. His CV may take twists and turns, but Marco Oppedisano's music goes straight to your heart." - Tokafi

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Marco Oppedisano is a composer, guitarist and producer with ample recording and performance experience as a guitarist in music ranging from rock/pop, jazz, hip hop, club/dance music, contemporary concert music, free improvisation, film music and musical theater.
Oppedisano performs with the BIOS trio and has performed with various contemporary music ensembles and musicians in the New York City area. He has had works performed by the Fireworks Ensemble, Glass Farm Ensemble, Morris Lang and The Brooklyn College Percussion Ensemble, The Zyryab Guitar Quartet of Portugal, and distinguished guitarists; Oren Fader and Kevin R. Gallagher. He has recorded for Capstone Records (Vox Novus 2003 60x60 project), performed in Glenn Branca's pieces for 100 guitars and in the US premiere of Guitars D'Amour by Glenn Branca. Oppedisano also is featured with Tom Buckner on an electroacoustic composition entitled, Hoodlum Priest by Noah Creshevsky (released on the Mutable Music label in 2003). In October 2006, Oppedisano held a concert at Dominic Frasca's The Monkey NYC featuring his electroacoustic workd for electric guitar and works for live electric guitar and CD playback.
Television appearances by Oppedisano include an improvisation concert at Brooklyn College aired on CUNY TV in December 2005 and for a special called Deadly Women, aired on the Discovery Channel in February 2005, featuring an opera scene by Dennis Bathory-Kitsz. He has done radio interviews for Kalvos and Damian (www.kalvos.org), and had works programmed WNYC "New Sounds," CBC Radio (The Signal with Laurie Brown), Contemporary Classical Internet Radio (live 365) and various internet radio stations. In September 2005 and December 2006, Oppedisano performed live with Josh Weinstein on WOR710's Joey Reynolds Show in New York City. In December 2006 he performed with Josh Weinstein on Vin Scelsa's long running radio program, "Idiot's Delight." In October 2006, Oppedisano was featured in an online interview with Urban Guitar 'Zine and in April 2007 did a 15 Questions Interview with Tokafi.
Oppedisano work as a producer and assistant producer include projects, FIRST FLIGHT, a solo classical guitar disc by the prolific New York City based guitarist, Oren Fader. He has worked as assistant producer on an album called DANCE MIX by the Fireworks Ensemble. His full length CD, ELECTROACOUSTIC WORKS FOR ELECTRIC GUITAR was released in June 2007 on the OKS Recordings of North America label. His works have been performed and heard in various areas around the world and are all registered with ASCAP.
Oppedisano is a native of Brooklyn, New York. He holds a B.A in Music Composition from the Brooklyn College Conservatory of Music and an M.A in Music Composition from the Queens College Aaron Copland School of Music.
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Music:

Member Since: 02/12/2006
Band Website: www.zebox.com/oppedisano
Band Members: MARCO OPPEDISANO, electric guitar and bass samples. KIMBERLY FIEDELMAN, voice samples (KARMICOM)
Influences: Too many to mention
Sounds Like: With the exception of voice in KARMICOM, all the works
here are electroacoustic works consisting of electric guitar
and bass samples. THERE IS NO LIVE PERFORMANCE ASPECT
TO THESE PIECES.

STEEL SKY - Marco Oppedisano
Video by Leo Alves Vieira

CDBABY LINK for MARCO OPPEDISANO: Electroacoustic Compositions for Electric Guitar

OKS Recordings of North America is pleased to announce the release of Electroacoustic Compositions for Electric Guitar, our fifth major release. This CD-R is now available through cdbaby.com as well as Amazon.com, Los Angeles’ Amoeba Records, New York’s Other Music and Kim’s Underground. It will be available for digital download at iTunes, Napster, Yahoo Music and many other digital download services. Marco Oppedisano is a composer, a classically trained guitarist and producer. Marco has worked with Oren Fader, Tom Buckner and Kevin R. Gallagher, and he has performed the music of Glenn Branca. Oppedisano’s music has been described by Time Out New York as “…mind-bending music for electronics and guitar…hear Oppedisano’s intricate roar.” Tokafi said, “…this is full-on, in-your-face and almost confrontational music…Marco Oppedisano's music goes straight to your heart.”This collection chronicles almost a decade’s worth of Marco’s electroacoustic music. For Electroacoustic Compositions for Electric Guitar, Marco abandoned live performance and found a paradise that mixes extended technique, digital processing, and pointillist editing. In some places he achieves a beauty that rivals a Fennesz style of ecstasy and in others a distorted abstraction that could be compared to Keith Rowe, but Marco’s inspired ability to shape shift his guitar into so many beasts is a unique twist that is all his own. Each of these pieces was primarily sourced from his electric guitar or bass playing and finely tuned for months or years, much like the work of a sculptor or masterpiece painter.
In his epic Time Lapse, Marco’s sound palette covers a great deal of territory starting with deep tones that resemble a didgeridoo far more than any stringed instrument before turning into a garden of tapewarped squiggles that recall Tod Dockstader’s classic work. Karmicom is a powerful piece displaying some of Marco’s most fierce guitar work that ends in a swirl of operatic vocals provided by the only other musician to appear on this recording, Marco’s wife, Kimberly. The End is Near is a jump-cut distillation of the broad range that Marco is capable of, easily hopping from gorgeous soundscapes to Zeppelin-style riffing.
Recently, Marco has started an electroacoustic improvisational trio with OKSRNA label-mates Bill Byrne (The Painful Leg Injuries) and John Ibarra (El Plan De Aguavodka) called BIOS. They have recorded an album, Retiring to Palermo to Make Apple Whine, due in late 2007. Marco has had his compositional works performed by the Fireworks Ensemble, Glass Farm Ensemble, Morris Lang and The Brooklyn College Percussion Ensemble, and The Zyryab Guitar Quartet of Portugal. In October 2006 and February 2007, Oppedisano headlined concerts at Dominic Frasca's The Monkey NYC featuring his electroacoustic works for electric guitar and works for live electric guitar and CD playback.
This CD-R release marks the latest major release from OKS Recordings of North America, a label run by Bill Byrne and his longtime collaborator, Jonah Goldstein. OKSRNA specializes in artist-created CD-R releases that cater to the tech-savvy listener who is ready for new arenas of creativity for musical expression.
Record Label: OKS Recordings of North America
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

CD review by Tokafi - Oct.2007

Hello All,Please check out a recent review of my CD, ELECTROACOUSTIC COMPOSITIONS FOR ELECTRIC GUITAR by the online 'zine, Tokafi.Tokafi - Electroacoustic Compositions for Electric Guitar reviewThanks...
Posted by on Thu, 04 Oct 2007 23:49:00 GMT

15 Questions interview with Tokafi - April 2007

Hello, Here's the link to an interview I did with Tokafi in April 2007.Marco Oppedisano - TokafiThanks for reading!Marco
Posted by on Mon, 20 Aug 2007 11:10:00 GMT

Interview with URBAN GUITAR 'ZINE -10/17/06

Hello All, Here's a link to my online interview with Urban Guitar 'Zine. Marco Oppedisano interview - Urban Guitar 'Zine Thanks for reading! Marco
Posted by on Sun, 03 Dec 2006 22:55:00 GMT