You are welcome to the page of the composer, tap guitarist and Chapman Stick Player Mathias Sorof from Germany.
Mathias Sorof Projects is his platform to realize his different innovative musical projects, featuring the possibilities of the Tap Guitar and the Chapman Stick with their new way to play the guitar, and to bring them to stage, concert and publishing on Audio, CD and video.
Further he teaches Tap Guitar and Chapman Stick and composes especially easy new musical pieces and etudes of new music for to devellopement his authentic style this new universe of tapping sound on 6-string guitar and Chapman Stick.
He works as Tap-Guitarist since 1978, and as Chapman Stickartist since 1980 in different musical styles like Experimental, Jazz, Worldmusic, Classic, Avantgarde, Fusion, Crossover, Rock, Folk and much more as Solo and in Ensembles. 1988 he released one of the first Chapman Stick Soloproductions anyhow on Vinyl-LP, this album has been re-released as CD in 2005. The composition "Sandteufel" that you are just listening is one tune of this production.
The compositions on 6-string Guitar he performs with the classical guitar tuning. For his approach on the Chapman Stick Sorof uses his own tuning, which he develloped in 1980 with ascending 5th in the left hand and a regular guitar tuning in his right. For further information , please visit the homepage: www.tapguitar.de
Mathias Sorof is director of the Ars TapGuitar Festival, organized by Neue Akademie Braunschweig, which will happen actually every year in Braunschweig/Germany. For further information please visit the homepage: www.ars-tapguitar.de