After a very nice train trip from Amsterdam (first class is worth the extra 10 euro) I arrived in Berlin. We have a lovely apartment in Wedding (“we” being Phil Skaller, Ayesha Khatun, Carolyn Chen, Ariana …
Amsterdam: August 3-8, 2010
What an incredibly productive and enjoyable stay at STEIM. Gregory Taylor and I recorded more than enough material for an album, I was able to conduct and videotape five interviews for my dissertation and as an …
The Desert Fathers in concert tonight at STEIM
From STEIM: 5 August 2010 | 20:30 hrs. | Concert | 5 euros STEIM Residency Concert:The Desert Fathers, PIRX, Lesley Flanigan Featuring:The Desert Fathers: Jeff Kaiser (US) – trumpet + computer & Gregory Taylor (US) – …
Amsterdam: August 2, 2010
The Desert Father’s first day at STEIM was quite exciting….a wonderful recording session immediately followed by a crash…making the 1.68gb seven channel interleaved file recorded in Max/MSP unreadable…THANKFULLY, Audiofile Engineering came to the rescue with their …
Amsterdam: July 25-29, 2010
Another nice week…I hate to be so upbeat about all this…besides a jam session at Zaal 100, and forays for beers, food, laundry and the occasional cigar (cubans have come down in price since my last …
Amsterdam: July 20-24, 2010
Spui with Kevin Whitehead and Michael Moore(Click any image to enlarge) What a beautiful week this has been, full of unexpected and delightful surprises. It began with meeting Michael for coffee, his houseguest Kevin joined us. …
Amsterdam: July 17-19, 2010
Ahhhh…So good to be back in Amsterdam! I’ll be here for the next three weeks. The first two are a “vacation” as a bit of a self-reward for making it through my PhD qualifying exams and …
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Dad’s 1966 Porsche 912
My father, Chuck Kaiser, has a habit (along with my mother) of taking old beat-up things and making them into something amazing. Ten years ago he purchased a trailer of rusty steel for a pittance….he saw …
Melford, Dessen, Dresser and Dresser, Nakatani, Turetzky
Some nice shows in the last week. A SMOKING telematic show with Myra Melford, Michael Dessen and Mark Dresser at UCSD last week. Look closely, you can see Michael in the center there…he performed from UC …