Thurston Moore Gets His Yuri Landman / Premier Guitar DIY Drone Guitar
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Read the story behind the guitar: bit.ly/ThurstonMooreDIY
Dutch avant-garde luthier Yuri Landman delivers the DIY drone guitar he built for former Sonic Youth guitarist Thurston Moore. Read about the project here: www.premierguitar.com/articles...
Perhaps it’s best if I start this article with a confession: I’m mostly known for being “the guy who built guitars for Sonic Youth.” Actually, I only built one guitar for one member of SY-Lee Ranaldo. Even so, I will probably live with this “stigma” for the rest of my life. Not that this worries me-it could be much worse. Here’s the story of how it happened.
In 2006, I built a 12-string, zither-like instrument called the Moodswinger and donated it to Liars, an experimental band based in Los Angeles, as a form of mutual promotion. Full disclosure-this was a setup: I knew they had opened for Sonic Youth a few years before and that the connection might help me get my foot in the door with Lee and Thurston Moore. As soon as I finished that job, I contacted Sonic Youth’s management and offered them the same instrument deal. Within an hour I got a reply saying my request had been forwarded to Lee. The next day Lee enthusiastically replied that he was interested in such a project and proposed something like a harp guitar. The conversations with Lee eventually culminated in the 18-string Moonlander.
After that I did a third instrument called the Bachelor for Jad Fair of Maryland art-punk outfit Half Japanese-which meant I had my weird instruments in the hands of a fresh, hip young band, a famous veteran outfit, and a legendary cult act. They’re three of my favorite bands, for different reasons.
Again, I stress that all three instruments were donations. I insisted on this, since I don’t possess the level of skills most expect from a bona fide luthier. I just have odd ideas and I’m not afraid to try them out. In order to both ensure that I didn’t get complaints and that I could maintain absolute autonomy in the builds, the first condition was not taking any money.
To continue reading the story about Thurston's drone machine: bit.ly/ThurstonMooreDIY
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Please do a rig rundown for him.
What's with all the Thurston hate? Do you guys really need some more pentatonic blues or harmonic minor shred riffs? A little musical deconstruction might do you some good.
@byebyebeano8616
8 жыл бұрын
I can not agree more.
@yurilandman1
8 жыл бұрын
Art & music philosophy is different and for certain people more difficult to understand than sustain and wood choices, which pickups, etc.. Ranting in public is then the easiest way to express your confusion. It is allowed to not like my work or that of Thurston.
@louderthangod
8 жыл бұрын
Yuri Landman I don't think they were even willing to receive it. Music for so many is about satisfying accepted conventions rather than realizing it's all just an assembly or a deconstruction of sounds. Things were not prepared for often seem strange and for so many strange is synonymous with "bad" because strange doesn't conform to the social pact we've been conditioned to accept. Take away the assumption that good is familiar and the world is either scary or exciting. There's a favorite quote of mine by Mark Rothko: “I'm not an abstractionist. I'm not interested in the relationship of color or form or anything else. I'm interested only in expressing basic human emotions: tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on.”
@jekylwhispy
7 жыл бұрын
When people disagree with you or feel differently it is because they are less than you, smallminded green monsters who really need to deconstruct their blues pentatonic, na'mean?
@llovebeats3749
6 жыл бұрын
Kool Thing is in Blues Minor.
this is badass and i totally understand why people are mad. this is like the exact opposite of normative "guitar playing". fuckin cool
Thurston picks up this weird instrument and instantly sounds like Thurston!
Great! Thanks for this and to Yuri for keeping it interesting
wish they had plugged it in.
dislikers are probably people who only play thrash, grunge and metalcore covers, and not even a different instrument
@AdolfStalin
6 жыл бұрын
I like thrash and early metalcore and don't mind Sonic Youth
Personally I love open tuners there’s gold in those harmonic possibilities
I really don't get all the hate here. I do understand that most people don't enjoy experimental music, prefer more conventional sounds and don't see the point in such a guitar, but how does that translate to insulting the creator and musician on video? Like, are these people doing some unusual music harming you in any way?? The comments seem really full of hate, why on earth would you call someone's work "shit" just because you don't share their interests?? Sadly though, I agree that Moore acted a bit on the prick side. Zero receptive to Yuri's work... like he was a fan giving him some uncomfortable gift like a bad painting of him or whatever. That's a pity because that guitar looks like a great work.
@yurilandman1
8 жыл бұрын
Thurston just arrived from Paris 15 min before, was worn out from that event, and had a 10 min salad for diner before we went off. In contrast to what you assume based on the interview, he was very happily showing it to his friends in the venue. So I'm convinced and happy. But apparantly KZread is indeed a shit hole where you can just scream whatever regardless your knowledge on the topic. Exhausting, since I was invited by PG to make something outside the normal, and I was the one who suggested it should be a gift to T who was so kind to take time for me. All SY members have always listened, mailed back and supported my work since 2007.
@Cesnakov
7 жыл бұрын
yuri , your work is amazing. wish i could try somethin like that .. best regards
@RobMacKendrick
4 жыл бұрын
Yuri's a class act.
>sits down >plucks behind the nut Oh he is excited
thank you so much
This is like telling Kim you have coded special autodetune software inspired by her singing. Also LOL at 17:10
I'd like to see John Bohlinger try this guitar.
He's ok...quite honest talking about patterns and shapes on the fretboard rather than sounds
Great interview
@lucas-940
8 жыл бұрын
How did you comment 6 days ago if this song came out 12 minutes ago
@micknevermind
8 жыл бұрын
How did you mistake this video for a song?
@seafoamgreen9147
8 жыл бұрын
probably it was unlisted and he got to watch it somehow
@copheart
8 жыл бұрын
It was shared on TM's facebook page. I don't know what song yr talking about
@lucas-940
8 жыл бұрын
+micknevermind I think I was up for 24 hours when I commented this I just woke up
💜 sonic youth 💛 ❤ I miss you 💚
Hi Premier Guitar thanks for this video ! I like the work of Yuri Landman, and I'd like to listen more of that guitar... is there a video or link to listen more off the show at the end of the video ? Thx !
16:40 I'm sure he meant the Kora, a beautiful instrument from Mali
Senyawa is great!
he doesnt pick it up
@professorpancakes6545
5 жыл бұрын
that's why it's called table-top guitar!
Crazy!!
I like what Yuri is doing. He has that DIY ethos to his creations. In some ways, he is the punk Harry Partch. If you want to see the polished and ultimate realization of this DIY model, I suggest Harmonic Complexity's third bridge stuff. kzread.info/dash/bejne/fmmdr9iek8vFdbg.html
Thurston just doesn't let this guy fanboy out hahaha
Build a guitar for the Flaming Lips! "Style is a crystallization". Don't get too stuck.
They didn't even play the thing. What's this for? Lol
What's Thurston Moore's gig today?
they talking about a kora
Who is the guitar player they reference who played in Static?
@Keverton13
4 жыл бұрын
The guitarist is Glenn Branca.
@charizmawolf6490
4 жыл бұрын
thank you!
compare to the weird guitar im more interest about the music influence talk
@justinizgd
8 жыл бұрын
and the video did not show what it sounds plugged in...
@yurilandman1
8 жыл бұрын
We had a tight schedule unfort and no amp in the restaurant. So I decided to do an interview about the background of these types of mods and playing techniques that involve the sound of SY on their early albums and which I try to incorp in my designs.
Thurston kind of looks like combination of James chance and Dale cover now
Looks like a pj Harvey
pre order I suppose too.
The audio quality is not good enough to make listening a pleasure.
A 20 minute vid with about 15 seconds of the guitar actually plugged in? WTF?
Yeesh thurston making that while Kim in body/head.... body/head rules
damnhow can he that
Thurston's reactions make me feel like that this whole thing is beneath him. Rattling off things that seemed to be a great influence on his early playing evolution and just brushing them off "oh, I was more interested in writing songs than making noise". Yuri has obviously done his homework about the scene that Sonic Youth were a part of, and the evolution of their sounds, but Thurston was shutting him down at every 2nd turn, the hipster paradigm of being a part of something, but decrying your part in it. Makes me never want to listen to Sonic Youth again.
@SW-by9ob
8 жыл бұрын
Totally agree. Average guitarist, below average vocalist, smug hipster twat. Very poor video.
@BenLubin
8 жыл бұрын
As much as I like SY, this is kinda true.
@theawecabinet
8 жыл бұрын
It's a bit like inviting Pollock around and showing him your home made random paint dispenser, which uses a variety of randomiser algorithms to distribute the paint onto the canvas. Pollock would be stifling a yawn too, while trying to be nice to some guy who is obviously a fan of his work. It's not that this guitar is beneath him. It is that it is above him. The guitar innovations of SY were always slave to the songs. This guitar makes you a slave to its innovations. Hipsterism aside, the guitar is awful. As an object of curiosity it is fine, but as a musical instrument it sucks ass. But it was also clearly a labour of love. Thurston understands this, and he lasts 17 whole minutes before finally cracking that yawn.
@janosmarothy5409
6 жыл бұрын
Did we watch the same video? Moore politely pushed back on situating himself in relation to the New York scene and Glenn Branca. One can wonder whether his account is accurate or if it underplays Branca's influence, but he has the right to speak for himself. Ditto with the timbre/songwriting bit - it was a very mild clarification. He wasn't being rude or condescending at all. You have the right to set the record straight when someone makes claims about your art that you think are off the mark. The whole interview Moore was behaving like... a normal human being having a conversation with another normal human being.
@crypttonite
Жыл бұрын
@@theawecabinet Pollock was STATE Sponsored propaganda. It’s known. Modern Art was a fabrication from the ground up by Banks, Industrialists & Intel, illegal Governance. Modern art is a product labeled art that doesn’t care about art by the old definition. The new definition, is all this shit you see, all these people are products of a product. It’s all histrio & litterateur
goddammit why are there no sound clips of this abomination of a guitar.
@yurilandman1
8 жыл бұрын
We had a tight schedule unfort and no amp in the restaurant. So I decided to do an interview about the background of these types of mods and playing techniques that involve the sound of SY on their early albums and which I try to incorp in my designs.
@jaysterdude
8 жыл бұрын
Great thing to put out -after- a video with sound clips of the instrument! "Guitaris-Interruptus" :(
@ewalyneno
7 жыл бұрын
that was a great interview, lots of stuff i've never heard Thurston talk about before, great job
what a nightmare.
What the hell?!
Meh bollocks!
dafuq's this?
@harleykingman
8 жыл бұрын
HIM GOING OVER 2 THE AS HE SAID . HOW FUNNY 2 ME THIS IS , IN ALL THE 35+YEARS MY BAND WAS ON THE ROAD I NEVER ONCE CALL R WORK A , IT WAS A JOB THAT PAID US GOOD MONEY THERE 4 I CALLED IT A !!
@RorysIrishTour
8 жыл бұрын
+Martin Parmer dafuq?
@kscotthoy
8 жыл бұрын
Martin Parmer You OK, Bro?
WHY !
Depth probes... so deep... in shit.
i bet in the hands of a great guitarist this guitar would sound great, in thurston's ? not so much. like he says he's not that interested in playing guitar
This guy completely misses the point of the music. - Taking an off the shelf guitar and approaching it differently than others have in the past. Instead, he created a ridiculous piece of tat where 2/3 of the outputs don't even work. - Just to be "different".
@yurilandman1
7 жыл бұрын
Yep, I tried some things. Not to make the best guitar or good music, but on request of Premier Guitar to see what is possible and what works and/or doesn't work. Obviously some ideas failed, a few things work for future projects. I compared it with a catwalk dress, that also have little function for casual wearing it on the street.
@matthewramiz3516
7 жыл бұрын
Yuri Landman love you Yuri, keep experimenting. Its a beautiful thing
@janosmarothy5409
6 жыл бұрын
Yuri Landman thanks for helping make this video possible, it was very interesting. And so was your guitar! More fun and experimentation is needed in luthiery and design for musical instruments!
unsubscribed!
@ThoggDCaare
8 жыл бұрын
Why
Was that a paying audience at the end listening to that drivel? Just proves that if there is somebody famous involved then people will listen to music no matter what a load of rubbish it is. Pretentious chumps.
@professorchill7392
8 жыл бұрын
No that was free jazz!
dafuq's this?