Oren Ambarchi and Martin Ng

Oren Ambarchi is a prolific vanguard composer and multi-instrumentalist with longstanding interests in transcending conventional instrumental approaches. His work focuses mainly on the exploration of the guitar. His solo works are hesitant and tense, with his music existing in the cracks between modern electronics and processing; improvisation and minimalism; hushed, pensive songwriting; and visceral rock music that has been slowed down and stripped to its bare bones, then abstracted and replaced with pure signal. From the late '90s, his experiments with guitar abstraction and...