TRANSISTOR ILLUMICATOR Jeff Kaiser: quartertone trumpet and laptop Don Haugen: electronicsRecording Information Live performance, 7/3/2010 at the New Zone Gallery, Eugene, OR USA Originally released on the (now defunct) net label run by ChefKirk with a …
Solo
Kaiser’s performances have been described as……not to be missed.MIT Computer Music Journal…a dreamlike and hypnotic reverie that’s subtle beauty had the crowd leaning forward in their seats. Suddenly, all hell broke loose.San Diego Reader…intense, powerful, sometimes …
Jeff Kaiser: Sitzfleisch I (PFMCD138)
Jeff Kaiser: flugelhorn, trumpet, voice, pot lids, toy car, ball and chain, and live computer processing.
[playlist ids="10483"]All the software is authored in Max/MSP by Jeff Kaiser.
There is no pre-recorded material or samples, it is all sampled, processed, and manipulated live. The only audio post-processing is mixing and mastering.
For more information and to download my software, please go to jeffkaiser.com
SITZFLEISCH I is a continuation of my use of chess terminology to name my works. Sitzfleisch, meaning “sitting meat” or even “buttocks.” However, it goes well beyond those terms to mean in chess (and politics) the ability to sit there and endure it, persevere: steadiness in a challenging situation. A person with sitzfleisch does not necessarily win by playing better, but by outsitting their opponent. It is also used in politics.
I experience sitzfleisch sometimes in improvisation, not that the music is an opponent, but that it is important to sit there and sometimes endure challenging moments and questions such as “why did I just do that,” where do I go from here,” “I have no ideas,” “really Jeff, THAT?”
And, as my friend and collaborator David Borgo likes to remind me, we are never alone, even when playing solo. Voices of former teachers, inspirational musicians, family, critics, and more are all there in our mind talking to us— sometimes at perfect moments, and sometimes at awkward moments in a performance. We must be present, sit there, and keep going.
This was recorded in one take…you can watch the session below. It is hilarious to me to see my headphones move forward bit by bit…
Recorded for a virtual concert at Ball State University.
[embed]https://vimeo.com/463879120[/embed]Recorded, mixed, and mastered by Jeff Kaiser at pfMENTUM Studios, Warrensburg, MO (September 2020)
Layout, and Design by Jeff Kaiser
Composition by Jeff Kaiser
© 2020 Jeff Kaiser Music, ASCAP
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Jeff Kaiser / David Borgo: KaiBorg: IntraAction (feat. Kjell Nordeson) (PFMCD137)
David Borgo: Soprano Saxophone, Piccolo, Futujara, Hne, Sneng, Double Whistle, Bamboo Saxophone, Sylphyo with Respiro, and live computer processing
Jeff Kaiser: Trumpet and live computer processing
Kjell Nordeson: Drums, Percussion, and Vibraphone
INTRAACTION
KaiBorg
Kjell Nordeson
1. Abductive 26:17
2. Noumenal 13:52
3. Ontotelic 10:35
4. Quinquagenary 18:39
1-3 Recorded in Studio A, The University of California San Diego, February 10 and 11, 2020
4 Recorded in concert, Conrad Prebys Music Center Experimental Theater, February 9, 2020
Recorded by Andrew Munsey • Edited, Mixed, and Mastered by Jeff Kaiser with David Borgo
Photo by Kiki Zhang, Used by Permission • Layout and Design by Jeff Kaiser
All music ©2020 David Borgo Music, ASCAP and Jeff Kaiser Music, ASCAP
kaiborg.com • davidborgo.com • jeffkaiser.com • kjellnordeson.com
pfMENTUM PFMCD137
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Jeff Kaiser: ZEITNOT V (PFMCD064)
ZEITNOT V
Jeff Kaiser
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[embed]https://vimeo.com/447230669[/embed]Jeff Kaiser
trumpet, flugelhorn, voice, toys, electronics
1) ZEITNOT V 29:44
Recorded, mixed, and mastered by Jeff Kaiser at pfMENTUM Studios, Warrensburg, MO
Photography, Layout, and Design by Jeff Kaiser
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Composition by Jeff Kaiser
© 2020 Jeff Kaiser Music, ASCAP
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The Choir Boys: Jeff Kaiser and Andrew Pask
The Choir Boys! Jeff Kaiser and Andrew PaskEveryone’s plugged into something and the result is an urgent, witty and often moving collage of acoustic and electronic sound which doesn’t draw attention to itself, but lets some …
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 …
Jeff Kaiser / Luis Tabuenca: The Forgetting Machine: Systematic and Quantitative
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The Forgetting Machine:
Systematic and Quantitative
The Forgetting Machine is:
Jeff Kaiser, trumpet
Luis Tabuenca, percussion
1 With Certainty 00:43
2 Collided, Smashed, Bumped, Hit, Contacted 05:14
3 The Radio’s Innards are Exposed 02:59
4 Encodes the Remembrance 04:54
5 Cascade of Questions 04:38
6 Methods Imported from Physics 01:12
7 If I were to suffer from heart failure and depend upon an artificial heart, I would be no less myself 01:32
Total Playing Time: 21:37 (EP)
All music composed by Jeff Kaiser and Luis Tabuenca
Recorded 25 May 2018 in Fabra i Coats, Barcelona, Spain
Mixed and Mastered May 2019 in Warrensburg, Missouri, USA
Recorded, Mixed and Mastered by Jeff Kaiser
Photograph of Kaiser and Tabuenca by Andrea Davis
Artwork and Graphic Design by Ted Killian
©2019, Jeff Kaiser Music, ASCAP and Luis Tabuenca, SGAE
DL: VI-337/2019
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The Jeff Kaiser Ockodektet: 13 Themes for a Triskaidekaphobic (PFMCD013)
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The Jeff Kaiser Ockodektet is:
Eric Barber: Soprano and Tenor Saxophones
Vinny Golia: Saxophones, Clarinets, Flutes
Emily Hay: Flutes
Lynn Johnston: Saxophones and Clarinets
Jason Mears: Alto Saxophone
Dan Clucas/Kris Tiner: Trumpets
Michael Vlatkovich: Trombone
Eric Sbar: Euphonium and Valve-Trombone
Mark Weaver: Tuba
Ernesto Diaz-Infante: Acoustic Guitar
Tom McNalley: Electric Guitar
G.E. Stinson: Electric Guitar, Electronics
Jim Connolly/Hal Onserud: Contrabass
Wayne Peet: Organ, Theremin, Electronics
Brad Dutz: Percussion
Richie West: Drum Set and Percussion
Jeff Kaiser: Conductor, Trumpet
Track List
1. My Uncle Toby’s apologetical oration 6:57
2. Gravity was an errant scoundrel 5:55
3. This sweet fountain of science 8:44
4. The Curate’s folly betwixt them 5:47
5. Devout, venerable, hoary-headed man, meekly holding up a box 4:43
6. The stranger’s nose was no more heard of 1:18
7. Uncle Toby understood the nature of a parabola 4:01
8. The Accusing Spirit which flew up to heaven’s chancery 6:55
9. A thousand of my father’s most subtle syllogisms 7:23
10. His life was put in jeopardy by words 5:44
11. The heat and impatience of his thirst 5:16
12. Nothing but the fermentation 4:11
13. I wish my Uncle Toby had been a water-drinker 6:09
Total Playing Time: 1:13:13
All compositions and arrangements by Jeff Kaiser
©2003 Jeff Kaiser Music, ASCAP
Recorded at Ventura City Hall, Ventura, CA, 9.7.02
Recording, mastering, design, and layout by Jeff Kaiser
“Number helps more than anything else to bring order into the chaos of appearances.”
— C. G. Jung, The Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche
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