interesting website:

http://preparedguitar.blogspot.de/

it also has a facebook-page:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/preparedguitar/?fref=ts

Nice video by guitarist/composer Derek Johnson:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sS_OTuZSgcI&feature=plcp&context=C3a77698UDOEgsToPDskKxd_Yh4-239-TlX_Q3_vLc

derek johnson - electric guitar (4 tracks), fx re-amping
zachary todd barr - video

http://www.myspace.com/derekjohnsoncomposer

Nice video by guitarist/composer Derek Johnson:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sS_OTuZSgcI&feature=plcp&context=C3a77698UDOEgsToPDskKxd_Yh4-239-TlX_Q3_vLc

derek johnson - electric guitar (4 tracks), fx re-amping
zachary todd barr - video

http://www.myspace.com/derekjohnsoncomposer

Guitar virtuoso David Tanenbaum discusses new works extending the language of the instrument with Charles Amirkhanian. From the Other Minds Archive:

Guitarissimo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WqVfKLNm4Y&feature=related

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Jozef van Wissem is a Dutch minimalist composer and lute player.

Much of the work of Jozef van Wissem is based on the application of mirror images to lute composition. The work is idiomatic to lute tablature of around AD 1600. Through study in New York City with Patrick O'Brien, he discovered that from the Middle Ages on, one of the variations on the cantus firmus (the given melody) is the backwards performance of the melody. As a result, on his first group of compositions, released as a CD Retrograde. A Classical Deconstruction (Persephone 002), Van Wissem wrote out mirror…

A very listenable improvising guitarist from germany:

Thomas Maos

He is working with Elliot Sharp and specializes in Dobro-playing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKgOJk8qJBM&feature=related

CD-review at Allaboutjazz:

By Glenn Astarita

Berlin-based guitarist Andreas Willers injects a bit of hoodoo voodoo into the realm of solo guitar, complete with effects-drenched overlays. A longtime participant in Europe's avant-garde, progressive jazz and jazz-rock contingent, the artist improvises within fragmented song structures and captivating shifts in strategy. Marked by off-kilter phrasings and guitar tunings, Willers tosses caution to the wind.

Willers implements sliding notes amid hazy dreamscapes while investigating the capabilities of the acoustic and electric guitar. He executes resonating and extended lines to offset harrowing effects on “Haufen e,” while rendering crazed, computer-generated sounds via android dialogues…

Compilation by CLEAN FEED (Portugal)

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"Curated by Elliott Sharp, this compilation presents the "state of the art" in today's guitar. Included are some of the most established pioneers, like Henry Kaiser, Jean-François Pauvros, Michael Gregory, Mike Cooper, Brandon Ross, Jeff Parker and, of course, Sharp himself, but also the new heroes of the electric or acoustic six-string instrument: Nels Cline, Raoul Bjorkenheim, Noel Akchoté, Scott Fields, and Mary Halvorson, plus some less internationally known (but no less remarkable) figures active in the domains of free improvisation and experimental music, namely Janet Feder, Kazuhisa Uchihashi, Mick Barr, and Gunnar Geisse.…

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…is still growing !

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A nice collection of contemporary free-guitar music !

spectra

Quote:

this collection of works provides a contemporary perspective for the unconventional sounds that can be generated from the guitar. performers were gathered from around the world, from tokyo to texas, norway to turkey, london and beyond. the timbre of this album as a whole is the modern version of the instrument itself, now possessing larger dynamic and harmonic ranges, and seemingly endless possibilities when combined with technology.

furthering the legacy of innovation and expression that the guitar now represents, spectra is a reverberance of living artists creating music for…