Ted Killian Biography
Born and raised in sunny Southern California, Ted Killian has been playing guitar for nearly 4 decades and hasn't yet managed to learn how to do it quite "correctly." But, as it happens, this may have turned out to be a prett [+]Ted Killian Biography
Born and raised in sunny Southern California, Ted Killian has been playing guitar for nearly 4 decades and hasn't yet managed to learn how to do it quite "correctly." But, as it happens, this may have turned out to be a pretty good thing. Without necessarily having set out to do so, Killian has succeeded (according to critical praise for his debut CD, "Flux Aeterna") in finding a fairly unique "voice" on an instrument that is nearly ubiquitous in modern popular music. His sound is a peculiar amalgam of odd, and (oftentimes) familiar, influences: folk, pop, blues, rock, metal, jazz, electronica, electro-acoustic "art music," and just plain noise ("!") that begs one to think the word "fusion" but is much more primal, gut-level and organic than any connotation that word may conjure.
This music is full of contradictions. It is primitive and sophisticated, visceral and sensitive, abstract and accessible, complex and blood simple all at once. It is given birth by heavy doses of technology (MIDI guitar, a plethora of electronic effects, digital echo devices, samplers, and all manner of assorted "gadgets") but the result is amazingly human sounding. There is blood and sweat mixed in with all of the diodes and cables -- and more than a small measure of passion. This intensity is not something that can be seen in the usual form of typical guitarist "histrionics" but can be heard in every note of the music itself.
Killian began playing and experimenting early on, but (in terms of public performance) bloomed late. Beginning in the late 1980s, he began performing his original music in conjunction with the Ventura, California New Music Concert Series -- aided by close friend and colleague, avant-jazz trumpeter, Jeff Kaiser. So began a long series of ever-changing concerts and presentations all around Southern California. Some of these were in connection to SEAMUS, an acronym for the national "new music" organization: the Society for Electro Acoustic Music in the United States (Killian was introduced to the organization by Kaiser in 1990 and became President of the Los Angeles chapter in 1992). Ted's has been interviewed as a featured composer on "Music of the Americas" on KPFK radio in Los Angeles.
Since the debut of "Flux Aeterna" his mu
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