Rhys Chatham
Rhys Chatham is an American composer, guitarist and trumpeter from Manhattan, based in France since the late 1980s. Trained in early minimalism with La Monte Young and Tony Conrad, he became the first music director of The Kitchen in New York in 1971. He is known for bringing drone and repetition into massed electric guitar music, from Guitar Trio (1977) to works for one hundred and more guitars. Rhys Chatham played in the Theatre of Eternal Music in the early 1970s and formed Tone Death and The Gynecologists in the No Wave years.
