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 …
Concert: Thursday, June 26, 2014, Berkeley
Jeff Kaiser, trumpet and electronics. Maxine, improvising software agent with: Kyle Bruckmann, oboe; Aram Shelton, saxophone; Theresa Wong, cello; Teddy Rankin-Parker, cello; Tom Djill, hacked keytar; Darren Johnson, trumpet; Louis Lopez, trumpet; Ritwik Banerji, saxophone.
Archived Events: Dec. 1, 2005 – June 7, 2014
Selected archived events from 2005-2014.
Trumpet Trumpet Travel
I’m sitting in the airport, off to Baltimore and NYC. I will be developing software, rehearsing, recording and gigging with Dave Ballou this week. Should be a blast If you are in Baltimore on Tuesday, or …
Renaming Items in Large Sample Libraries on a Mac: The Joy of Automator
I have been working on a personal library of sounds recorded of my own trumpet, quartertone trumpet and flugelhorn. After exporting them from Pro Tools I ended up with a large collection of files that needed …
Alpine to Bakersfield to Berkeley…a beautiful drive…
I’m guest lecturing at The Jazzschool in Berkeley, California this coming week…and decided to make a bit of a Spring Break trip out of it. Spent time with Nicholas Deyoe, Tom McNalley and Frannie Garretson at …
Some pfMENTUM and Angry Vegan business….
***************** We’re pleased to announce our latest release, ***Endless Pie*** featuring Jeff Kaiser and Phil Skaller. The first review described it as “Wicked trumpet meets prepared piano in this intense and hilarious pairing of twisted minds.” …
Todd Reynolds at Space 4 Art in San Diego
Thanks to Bonnie Wright for bringing Todd Reynolds to town. Click any of the images below for larger version.
Double Quartet Re-visited…
Despite, what it says in the review, it is not *quite* out of print…I also have a few copies that are available….nice to revisit the review, though! From Downtown Music Gallery’s Newsletter today:***********************JEFF KAISER DOUBLE QUARTET …