Chuck Hammer

American musician Chuck HammerHammer at Terminal 5, New York City, 2015OccupationGuitarist · Composer Chuck Hammer is an American guitarist and soundtrack composer, known for textural guitar work with Lou Reed, David Bowie, and Guitarchitecture. As an artist, Hammer is best known for his Guitarchitecture recordings, though he is also widely regarded as a leading New York City based soundtrack composer, having scored approximately 300 documentary films. He is currently developing a series of improvisational textural guitar recordings. He was born in New York City and attended University at Buffalo, studying classical guitar with Oswald Rantucci, jazz with Archie Shepp, and attended lectures presented by Karlheinz Stockhausen. As a guitarist Hammer was a central figure within the Lou Reed Band from November 1978 through mid 1981 including the June 1979 Lou Reed concerts at The Bottom Line in New York City with Don Cherry. Early work Hammer worked and toured extensively as a textural guitarist with Lou Reed from November 1978 through mid 1981. During these concerts and recordings Hammer utilized new guitar technology, known as guitar-synth, to orchestrate songs from Berlin, Street Ha