The Possibility of a New Work for Electric Guitar

I am very happy to have been invited by Zeitgeist to play The Possibility of a New Work for Electric Guitar on their Early Music Festival. This is my first time performing a work by Morton Feldman. And it is lucky that the piece even exists. It was written in 1966 in collaboration with performer, Christian Wolff (who has said he's not a guitar player). He performed the piece three times and kept the only copy of the score in his guitar case. The case, with guitar and score inside, was stolen out of his car in 1967. But the piece has been reconstructed using Feldman's incomplete sketch of the work, and a recording of one of Wolff's performances. The piece is quiet and spacious and makes use of the special capabilities of the electric guitar such as volume knob (or pedal) swells and the vibrato bar. 

--Jeff Lambert, guitarist
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Lambert will perform The Possibility of a New Work for Electric Guitar on March 31 and April 1 as part of Zeitgeist's Early Music Festival celebrating the work of Morton Feldman. 

Christian Wolff, 1971

ZEITGEIST EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL
​MORTON FELDMAN

March 31-April 3  •  Studio Z  •  Tickets/Details

Zeitgeist’s 6th Annual Early Music Festival explores the powerful contributions of our musical pioneers with a celebration of composer Morton Feldman. One of the 20th century’s great visionaries, Feldman’s innovations in music notation and his free-flowing indeterminate music embraced new artistic possibilities and made a lasting impact that continues to shape new music today.