Made Audible: Jeff Kaiser and Trevor HenthornProbability-based Electronica, since 2008About: Made Audible sonifies information—working with the many possibilities of sonification, from data to concepts, from science to politics. Made Audible uses Ableton Live, Ableton Push and …
KaiBorg: Jeff Kaiser and David Borgo
KaiBorg – Vibrant Matters from Jeff Kaiser on Vimeo.KaiBorg is: Jeff Kaiser Quartertone Trumpet/Laptop David Borgo Saxophones/Laptop KaiBorg explores the intersections of cutting-edge computer music and contemporary improvisation. Employing custom signal processing techniques and hardware mapping …
Jeff Kaiser and Brad Dutz: The Order of Her Bones (PFMCD008)
The Order of Her Bones
Jeff Kaiser: trumpet, flugelhorn, and voices.
Brad Dutz: marimba, glass marimba, vibes, xylophone, bass slit drum, gongs, nipple gongs, wind gong, bell plate, heavy bell, Indian bells, bell chimes, sea urchin chimes, obsidian chimes, cup chime, crotales, rotosound, bird whistles, Brazilian birdcalls, clay jay call, Rawcliffe clay bowls and tuba flute, rainstick, hadjira, concertina, ratchet, shakers, caxixi, bones, pods, balloon whistle, pandiero, riq, bougarabou, spinner, finger cymbals, cymbals, bongos, cajon, string cajon, frame drum, snare drum, bass drum, and voices.
1. The White Haired Gentleman Approaches 6:41
2. Magnification Embrace 5:50
3. The Scrupulous Hand of Childhood 6:18
4. Wounds and Contusions 3:18
5. The Vigilant Conspiracy 5:28
6. The Order of Her Bones 1:48
7. Stories, RumorsÉ 6:58
8. Finches and Wrens 5:42
9. It Becomes Translucent 5:32
10. Bring Me Some Eggs 3:16
11. No Coffee? Nothing? 4:56
12. Faintly Appearing 5:02
Total Playing Time: 60:50
1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11 by Jeff Kaiser and Brad Dutz
© 2002 Jeff Kaiser Music, ASCAP and Leaky Spleen Music, BMI 4, 8, 12 by Brad Dutz
© 2002 Leaky Spleen Music, BMI Recorded by Brad Dutz at Apperson Street Studios in Tujunga, CA on 3.19.01, 6.4.01, and 9.15.01 Mastered by Jeff Kaiser
Design and layout by Jeff Kaiser
Brad Dutz endorses Paiste, VIC FIRTH, REMO, Yamaha, and Mountain Rythym
pfMENTUM CD008
PFMCD008
The Jeff Kaiser Ockodektet: 17 Themes for Ockodektet (PFMCD010)
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Woodwinds: Eric Barber, Vinny Golia, Emily Hay, Lynn Johnston
Trumpets: Dan Clucas, Kris Tiner
Euphonium and Valve-Trombone: Eric Sbar
Tuba: Mark Weaver
Prepared Acoustic Guitar: Ernesto Diaz-Infante
Electric Guitar/Electronics: G.E. Stinson
Organ/Theremin/Electronics: Wayne Peet
Contrabasses: Jim Connolly, Scott Walton
Drums: Billy Mintz, Richie West
Percussion: Brad Dutz
Conductor/Trumpet: Jeff Kaiser
Suite One
1. Dirge 2:31
2. Clad Like Birds 3:40
3. Amplifying Their Parallels 7:01
4. Nothing May Be Taken Naturally 2:56
5. Even with Diagrams 8:12
6. One Absolute Material 5:54
7. Figures of this In-Between 3:05
8. Figures to be Actualities 4:27
9. Figure with Wings 7:09
Suite Two
10. Coincidentia Oppositorum 3:55
11. Where His Third Eye Could Be 3:59
12. Fulfilled by the Reflected Image 7:41
13. There is No Profit from Dreams 7:55
14. Into That Nothing-Between 5:07
Total Time: 73:44
All compositions and arrangements by Jeff Kaiser, ©2002 Jeff Kaiser Music, ASCAP
Recorded direct to DAT – on the occasion of Jeff Kaiser’s 40th birthday party – at Ventura City Hall, Ventura, CA, 12.8.01
CD recording, mastering, design, and layout by Jeff Kaiser
“Dreams are sleep’s watchful brother, of death’s fraternity, heralds, watchmen of that coming night, and our attitude toward them may be modeled upon Hades, receiving, hospitable, yet relentlessly deepening, attuned to the nocturne, dusky, and with a fearful cold intelligence that gives permanent shelter in his house to the incurable conditions of human being.”
— James Hillman, The Dream and the Underworld
pfMENTUM CD010
PFMCD010
Etched Tread of Charcoal Teeth, April 29, 2017 and more
[Update, added the score below and on “Scores” page] [layerslider id=”34″] Jacob Sentgeorge and I have been collaborating on a piece—Etched Tread of Charcoal Teeth—for solo voice and a new instrument called the KaiserDrifter, based on …
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 …
Archived Events: Dec. 1, 2005 – June 7, 2014
Selected archived events from 2005-2014.
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.comACB Mouthpiece, Royer 121 Ribbon MicrophoneHome StudioHome StudioBuilding synths…Building synths…Old rig, …
Two new reviews from Downtown Music Gallery
Two new reviews from DOWNTOWN MUSIC GALLERY… DMG Newsletter for November 16, 2012 http://www.downtownmusicgallery.com/Main/index.htm ENDLESS PIE [JEFF KAISER/PHIL SKALLER] – Endless Pie [2 CD set] (pfMentum 072; USA) Jeff Kaiser on trumpet, flugelhorn and electronics and …