Austin, Texas [Updated]

Thursday night, December 3, 2015 Strange Brew 5326 Manchaca Rd Austin, TX Loopers’ Night is an evening of musical shenanigans unlike anything else in the world – a laboratory for collaborations at the intertidal zone between …

Research Presentations

Research Presentations (Invited) January 2023, Missouri Music Educators Association. Presented “Hands-On Digital Audio Workstations:Teaching with free and/or inexpensive software.” September 30, 2022, Guest speaker to the Minnesota College and University Council for Music on the development …

pfMENTUM

Links: About pfMENTUM/Artists pfMENTUM Recordings: CDs, LPs, DVDs archival information pfMENTUM Cover Art Archive pfMENTUM Selected ReviewspfMENTUM: Dedicated to creative music—and the musicians that make it. pfMENTUM (pronounced, pee-eff-mehn-tuhm) began in 1995 as a newsletter associated …

pfMENTUM Recordings Archive

Links: About pfMENTUM/Artists pfMENTUM Recordings: CDs, LPs, DVDs archival information pfMENTUM Cover Art Archive pfMENTUM Selected ReviewspfMENTUM Recordings: CDs, LPs, DVDs archival information Archive for information about the recordings documented on pfMENTUM, including CDs, DVDs, vinyl …

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Resources for Students in Music Technology

[This material may be out of date. It is now being maintained, and regularly updated at https://whyreaper.com/resources/] I started this list for my students at the University of Central Missouri’s Music Technology Program as an exploration …

Society for Ethnomusicology 2015

I will be presenting at the Annual SEM Conference in Austin, http://www.indiana.edu/~semhome/2015/index.shtml Sunday, December 6 Session 12E, 10:45 am – 12:15 pm Room 415A Panel: Improvising with Electronics at the Interface of Sound, Subjectivity and Significance *Sponsored by …

Selected Press: 1996-2006

Zugzwang (with Tom McNalley) Sinister, strident and glacial sounds emanating from sunny Ventura, California. Kaiser uses quartertone trumpet, McNalley electric guitar. Both add electronics to distort, extend and transmute their instruments. Zugzwang communicates a taste for …

Gear

Kaiser’s music is fierce and uncompromising, often taking listeners on a sonic adventure they might not be prepared for…NBC San DiegoKaiser is a stupendously industrious trickster…plasticsax.comFlugelhorn Yamaha YFH-631G I love this horn, and regularly tour my …

RIP, Pinetop…

A student last quarter in my Blues class met and spent some time with Pinetop in Austin, Texas…she brought me back an autographed CD and a verbal invitation to his 100th birthday party, which he was …