Jazz Articles about Ernesto Diaz-Infante & Chris Forsyth

Ernesto Diaz-Infante & Chris Forsyth: Wires and Wooden Boxes

by AAJ Staff
July 1, 2001

For pure sonic experimentation, string instruments offer some very attractive options. They bear complex higher-level overtones, which can be crafted and manipulated using various percussive and abrasive approaches. They're amenable to amplification, which can introduce another whole bag of tricks. And they're generally attached to resonant pieces of wood, which often work quite well as percussion instruments in and of themselves.

Ernesto Diaz-Infante and Chris Forsyth take this idea as their lead concept for their second collaboration, aptly named Wires ...

Ernesto Diaz-Infante & Chris Forsyth: Left & Right

by Glenn Astarita
January 1, 2000

Ernesto Diaz-Infante is a musician who is apt to churn out delicate, minimalist passages and fragmented themes as a pianist (see Jan ’00 AAJ review - Ucross Journal ) or here on Left & Right utilizes a prepared acoustic guitar (left channel) along with electric guitarist Chris Forsyth (right channel). From the onset, it would be a fair summarization that the music presented here takes you on a journey which is often bizarre, at times harsh, surrealistic and most certainly ...