Blue Monk (2007)


Blue Monk
Guided improvisation based on musical fragments from Thelonious Monk’s well-known jazz standard – ‘Blue Monk’.
Written by: Guy Barash

Instrumentation: guitar and real time digital signal processing

Duration: 7 minutes

World Premiere: June 22, 2007, Iliya Siltsov (guitar) and Guy Barash (electronics), The Yellow Submarine, Jerusalem, Israel

Other Performances:
March 13, 2008, Iliya Siltsov (guitar) and Guy Barash (electronics), The Left Bank, Tel Aviv, Israel

Performance Note:
Guided improvisation based on musical fragments from Thelonious Monk’s well-known jazz standard – ‘Blue Monk’. These fragments are triggered by parameters like pitch, velocity, etc., and manipulated in real-time.

Guitar, Iliya Siltsov