What happens when you give two guitarists the same rhythm guitars as a starting point for new music?
In July of 2025, the idea for a new project grew in my mind. It centered around the idea that there are infinite ways to cross a landscape and, similarly, there are myriad ways to wrap a melody around a rhythm. Given the same recorded guitar rhythms, and structure, how will what two guitarists create differ in the end? Stephen Duros and I decided to find out. We each created our own melodies, counter lines, and additional rhythmic elements, and made new pieces of music.
A few months later we each have a new album called Rhythm Maps. These are two pieces that started out with the same Map SD02 and became two very different pieces. You can click anywhere below to go to the album page on Bandcamp.
I have never heard of anyone else doing something like this. Have you? Please let me know in the comments. Enjoy!
Very creative and fresh. I listened to both full albums. They will be in my collection. The music takes you to the Southwest filled with endless earth tone colors during the day con El Sol and the night con La Luna!!
Bravo
Thank you, Ricardo. It was a lot of fun to create that album!!