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.
About
Jeff Kaiser’s solo performance was “a manic, hallucinogenic joyride through time, space and tonal distortions. He took some of the extended techniques of Lester Bowie and Bill Dixon, and stretched them past the breaking point. He would bend …
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Equalizers and Pro Tools 9
Recently I switched to Pro Tools 9 as my main DAW (from Digital Performer). There are many reasons for this, not the least of which is I like it better. I also find myself using the …
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Douglas Detrick: Interview with Jeff Kaiser
From Douglas Detrick I had a gig in the summer of 2010 with Jeff Kaiser at the Jazz Station, a gem of a venue in Eugene, Oregon’s music scene. I played the first set, Jeff played …
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) – …
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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 …
New Media Reading Group…
Friends regularly ask what I am reading here at UCSD, so I thought this might interest some of you. A friend and I started a reading group this quarter for new media theory….here are the texts, …