Electric Kompany is an ensemble dedicated to commissioning contemporary music for rock quartet, thereby giving modern composers the chance to express their compositional ideas through the rock quartet medium.
At this time in music history, composers are freely combining avant-garde and american popular music aesthetics. Pieces are written for traditional instruments with touches of modern technology - i.e. a string quartet with an added effect, a cello routed through a looper, an orchestra piece with added electronics, etc. However, there still is a tremendous lack of “modern music” written for “modern instruments” - in our case - the electric guitar, keyboards, drum set, and electric bass. This seems to be the next logical step in serious composition, and is the main reason for the formation of the rock quartet, Electric Kompany. |
