Guitarist, Composer, and Audio Architect Rachika Nayar Crafts Fantastic Layered Works

Rachika Nayar is a composer and producer who uses her electric guitar as a sound source, creating rich layers of sound in real time. She then "mutilates" and "contorts" these sounds, processing them, arranging them into the finished pieces on her 2021 LP Our Hands Against The Dusk and its companion record, the 2021 EP Fragments, which could be considered as a collection of Etudes; none of the works on Fragments were translated into larger pieces.

Nayar's guitar playing is informed by math rock, post rock, jazz, EDM - "the 4AM warehouse rave", and lately – exploring open tunings. She talks us through and demonstrates her process, starting with solo electric guitar loops, which are processed, pulled apart, and rebuilt, shifted, stretched, and arranged with other electronic instruments.  Rachika Nayar improvises guitar loop-based pieces and transforms them for this remote session. - Caryn Havlik

Set list: "Memory as Miniatures," Untitled Guitar Piece

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