About Rhys Chatham
Rhys Chatham is an American composer, guitarist, trumpet player, and multi-instrumentalist, primarily active in avant-garde and minimalist music. He is best known for his "guitar orchestra" compositions. He has lived in France since 1987. In 1971, while still in his teens, Chatham became the first music director at the experimental art space The Kitchen in lower Manhattan. Drastic Classicism was first released in 1982 on the compilation New Music from Antarctica, put together by Kit Fitzgerald, John Sanborn and Peter Laurence Gordon.
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