Keith Rowe

English free improvisation tabletop guitarist and painter, born 16 March 1940, Plymouth, England.

He is a co-founder of the English improvising ensemble AMM, established in 1966. Already in the late 1950s Rowe started experimenting with preparations on the guitar, influenced by the ideas of Marcel Duchamp. In the early 1960s he was a member of Mike Westbrook's band until his resolution never to tune his guitar again, made his resignation from the group unavoidable. Since then Rowe has exclusively played the "table top guitar", as a soloist, in AMM and in various other groups.