Piano Motor Skills #2 - Brent Gutzeit

Brent Gutzeit is a musician, label owner and instrument designer who lives in Chicago. After graduating from Western Michigan University in 1994 with a degree in sculpture, Gutzeit moved to Japan where, in addition to studying sculpture he saw a lot of bands and started TV Pow with Michael Hartman. Hartman and Gutzeit had been in a band together called Liminal in Kalamazoo, they were joined Todd Carter in TV Pow and after a return to the States and a move to Chicago, TV Pow toured Japan in 1997. Gutzeit started the Boxmedia label to release music from the growing Chicago improvised music scene as well as musicians from beyond Cook County. In March of 1999, Kranky released the Mosquito Dream CD, a collaboration between Brent Gutzeit and guitarist James Plotkin that began when the two met at a Jim O'Rourke concert in Tokyo. Plotkin gave Gutzeit a tape of some guitar pieces which Gutzeit then mutated via tape manipulation and the addition of his own, homemade instruments, including an upright bass strung with piano wire and a 3 string instruments strung with 100 foot piano wires. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.