Solo

Garth Stevenson has been presenting solo concerts for double bass with electronics since his 2005 debut in Warsaw. The music has evolved from mostly improvised pieces to longer, through composed works that are difficult to categorize in a musical style. Some have compared it to modern classical music, new music, experimental, film, ambient, or music inspired by Nature. His electronics consist of an array of foot pedals including reverb, delay, looping, distortion, tremolo and routing pedals that run into a laptop which he uses to control creative panning in stereo or surround sound performances. This music has reached a wide variety of audiences and venues including St. Peter’s Cathedral in New York, Esber Recital Hall at Penn State College, David Friend Hall at Berklee, St. Michaels Cathedral in Kelowna, and more intimate venues such as Barbés in Brooklyn, the Starving Artist in Keene, and the Lily Pad in Boston.

Occasionally, Stevenson collaborates with Joshue Ott, one of New York’s premier improvising visual artists. Ott, inventor of an interactive drawing program named SuperDraw, improvises drawings on a metal pad, which he then manipulates with his software and projects onto a screen. The images vary in color, shape, size, density and create a constant sense of motion.

To book a solo concert contact Garth directly at garth@garthstevenson.com