My friendships with musicians Tom Erbe and Rand Steiger go back just a few years… AND both have asked me to provide improvised clips played on the trumpet for projects, and I cannot believe I never …
Scores added, including “Improvising machine #7325 – Inside my trumpet, again”
I have added scores to https://jeffkaiser.com/scores/, including Improvising machine #7325 – Inside my trumpet, again, written for my friend Gabriel Trottier. His performance is available here: https://youtu.be/XZCxWvBp49k. I find this score fun in that it includes …
Improvising machine #7325 – Inside my trumpet, again – Premiere by Gabriel Trottier
My friend, Gabriel Trottier (awesome horn player, newly minted Doctor from University of Montreal) premiered a new piece I wrote for him, Improvising Machine #7325 – Inside My Trumpet, Again. This has been a blast, working …
jk.softstep, version 3, software for interacting with SoftStep in Max/MSP, updated for 2021
I am pleased to share with you a major rewrite of my jk.softstep, a set of abstractions made with standard Max objects for interacting with Keith McMillen Instrument’s SoftStep within Cycling ’74’s Max/MSP programming environment. Version …
For programs featuring my music, please put [Living] for my birthdate
This came up in a discussion the other day. In formal Western European Art Music concerts there is a lot of concern with listing age on programs, among many other things. I would suggest we use …
Jumper fixed. Free Max for Live plugin that helps you navigate to Locators
Thanks to @n00neimp0rtant for spotting a bug! The floating window will now open in a hopefully more agreeable location. ALSO, you can edit the location it opens in by clicking the edit button, which will open …
Setting up your Audio Applications for Demoing and Performing in Zoom
The following is one option (Mac computers only, sorry) to route audio applications and more into Zoom, getting rid of some latency and other issues especially when demoing/performing in Max, Ableton, and others. Even though this …
Downloads Working Again!
I changed servers last week, to a WAY better server. However, there were a few bumps along the way, in particular for the way downloadable files were handled. The problem is fixed, and downloads are now …
Video content moved to YouTube!
Hi All, just a note, at the end of this past October I moved my video content from Vimeo to YouTube! The past videos will remain on Vimeo, but I am releasing new content regularly solely …