Music for Eight Guitars (The Parting Gift) by the Moe Staiano Ensemble - (SF International Arts Festival)

Moe Staiano continues to explore works for electric guitar ensembles with his third work-in-progress composition, Music for Eight Guitars (The Parting Gift). This is an exploration of tonal interplay and contrasting rhythms with eight electric guitars, bass, drums and percussion. Moe will feature assertive rhythmic structures and intertwining tremolo structures, balanced by continuous play against each guitarist with bouncing rhythms and ongoing hockets while surrounding the audience with a bombastic attack. This piece comes after his Music for 48 Guitars (2023), which has yet to be performed.