How Avant‑Garde Prepared Guitars Shaped Rock

This episode traces the journey from John Cage’s experimental piano to Sonic Youth’s table‑top guitar rituals, uncovering how inserting objects between strings opened new sonic frontiers for noise rock, shoegaze and beyond. It explores the mechanics, studio practices, and cultural ripple effects that turned a quirky technique into a lasting musical language.

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