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David Beardsley

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About Me

Microtonal guitar, composer/performer.

A long time resident of New Jersey, David Beardsley is one of the New York area's foremost microtonal guitarists. Meditative and mesmerizing, his playing is steeped in Indian music and blues as much as it is the late 20th century minimalist tradition. Playing microtonal Just Intonation guitar and steel guitar, David creates droning ambient soundscapes.

He started piano at seven, guitar as a teenager and started composing seriously in his thirties. Along the way, he developed a strong interest in the tuning system known as just intonation - tuning by whole number ratios from the naturally occurring harmonic series.

More: http://www.biink.com/db/

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 3/26/2006
Band Website: biink.com/db
Influences: Harold Budd, Robert Fripp, Brian Eno, Morton Feldman, La Monte Young, David Hykes, Harry Partch, Iannis Xenakis, Horatiu Radulescu, Hindustani Classical raga, minimalism, post classical, modern jazz, country blues, ambient.
Sounds Like: Ambient.
A bit of looping.
Minimalism.
Microtonal.
Record Label: ogreogress productions
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

mo’ music...

Whadda ya know...I finally uploaded some more music.
Posted by David Beardsley on Thu, 31 Jan 2008 11:03:00 PST

Harry Partch, microtonalist

There's a lot I didn't know about Harry Partch here. 
Posted by David Beardsley on Fri, 26 Oct 2007 01:47:00 PST

the Voice of the Bowed Guitar

The Voice of the Bowed Guitar, the microtonal music of Rod Poole Sasha Bogdanowitsch, David Beardsley, John Cummins. September 23, 2007, 6:00 PM freeDowntown Music Gallery342 Bowery [between E. 2nd &a...
Posted by David Beardsley on Thu, 09 Aug 2007 10:12:00 PST

There's a Terry Riley discussion list

There's a Terry Riley discussion list: http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/Terry_Riley/?yguid=7054 4219Join us and talk about Shri Camel, the man. TerryRiley.com Terry Riley at Wikipedia...
Posted by David Beardsley on Wed, 04 Apr 2007 07:35:00 PST

Microtonal guitarist Rod Poole died last Sunday night...

http://www.biink.com/pooleMicrotonal guitarist Rod Poole died last Sunday night, a senseless killing...
Posted by David Beardsley on Tue, 15 May 2007 10:22:00 PST

Download my string quartet

Download my string quartet as beautiful as a crescent of a new moon on a cloudless spring evening on the For Feldman DVD as performed by Christina Fong from itunes. just enter my last name -> beardsle...
Posted by David Beardsley on Tue, 03 Apr 2007 05:06:00 PST

new blog!

new blog!
Posted by David Beardsley on Sat, 17 Mar 2007 11:02:00 PST

For Feldman released!

On sale now at CDBaby.
Posted by David Beardsley on Thu, 03 Aug 2006 12:25:00 PST

string quartet radio premiere!

The radio premiere of David Beardsley's (http://biink.com/db/index.htm) 30-minute 2004 string quartet "as beautiful as a crescent of a new moon on a cloudless spring evening" as performed by Christina...
Posted by David Beardsley on Tue, 04 Jul 2006 09:17:00 PST

now playing


Posted by David Beardsley on Tue, 20 Jun 2006 09:22:00 PST