Music Current 2025: Shane Latimer E-Guitar Workshop
Contemporary Music Centre
Shane Latimer (photo Ziga Koritnik).
As part of Music Current 2025.
Exploring Contemporary Guitar Techniques
Discover the cutting edge of guitar performance in this workshop dedicated to contemporary techniques. We’ll dive into the extended possibilities of the guitar, focusing on creative approaches to playing the strings—scraping, tapping, harmonics, prepared guitar techniques, and percussive elements that push the instrument's boundaries. From there, we’ll explore how shaping the sound after the pickup, through effects, looping, and digital manipulation, opens up an endless palette of sonic textures. As we connect these techniques, we’ll investigate how they can inspire forms of automatic music—where the interplay of performer and technology generates evolving, self-sustaining compositions. This workshop is ideal for musicians looking to expand their vocabulary, experiment with unconventional soundscapes, and reimagine the guitar as a versatile tool for creative expression.
This two-hour workshop is suitable for musicians, composers and concert-goers, or anyone with an interest in electronic music and how it is composed, or how technology can be integrated into composition and performance.
...an extraordinary range of textures...Latimer manipulated the jumble of boxes and leads – as well as his guitar – in a fascinating meeting of man and technology.
[The Journal of Music]
Shane Latimer is a musician from Dublin, Ireland. As guitarist and composer with OKO (“a revelation” - The Sunday Times) and or as curator with the Bottlenote Festival (“a no-holds- barred celebration of beautiful noise” - The Irish Times), his music has a focus on the improvisational and experimental. His latest solo work exists in the entangled space between the embodied and the embedded. Shane uses software to harvest information from guitar improvisations to feed an assemblage of electronic hardware. His new solo album 'Residuum' on Diatribe Records documents and expands upon this work.
Music Current workshops are supported by the Contemporary Music Centre, Ireland. Composer participants resident on the island of Ireland, travelling from outside Dublin, may apply to CMC for a bursary to cover the cost of travel, subsistence and workshop entry fee by contacting festival staff when attending workshop events, or by emailing info@musiccurrent.ie
Tickets
€5 (includes refreshments). Book tickets.