Chuck Hammer

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Chuck Hammer is an American guitarist and Emmy nominated digital film composer, known for seminal Guitar Synth with Lou Reed, David Bowie and Guitarchitecture. He was born in New York City.

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Hammer recorded seminal guitar synth with David Bowie and Lou Reed; touring extensively with Lou Reed from 1978-1980.

In March of 1980, Hammer recorded Guitar-Synth tracks for David Bowie on Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps), including multiple Guitar-Synth textures across "Ashes to Ashes", "Teenage Wildlife" and the inceptive tracks for "Up the Hill Backwards", all of which marked the earliest use of Guitar-Synth in Bowie's catalogue. The actual instruments utilized on these tracks included a Roland Gr 500 Guitar-Synth with Eventide Harmonizer. Textural tracks such as those on "Ashes to Ashes" implied an alternative, "multi layered" approach to the guitar in soundtrack composition, scoring and audio art. Prior to recording with Bowie, Hammer recorded with Lou Reed on Growing Up in Public, January 1980.

Hammer's textural guitar soundtracks employ the technique of Guitarchitecture, a term which describes his guitar work with Bowie and Reed, and influential scores in the digital film medium.

According to an article by Stephen Thanabalan in Rolling Stone Magazine, Hammer's layering with Guitar/Synth was accorded pioneer status alongside an eclectic yet select group of heavyweights, including Robert Fripp and Fusion artist Allan Holdsworth, having been attributed with leading a new wave of development in the guitar industry, influencing instrument capabilities, form and functions in music of the latter decades from the 1980s and beyond.

[edit] Digital film and television soundtracks

  • Trauma: Life in the E.R.
  • Paramedics
  • Police Force
  • Maternity Ward
  • World Birthday
  • Science Times
  • Breaking News
  • Women and the Badge
  • Body Rebuilders
  • House of Dreams
  • The First 48

[edit] Guitarchitecure recordings

  • Guitarchitecture
  • Glacial Guitars
  • Acoustica v1, v2
  • Guitargraphy
  • Cathedral Guitars

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