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.
Discography
Jeff Kaiser DiscographyAs Leader/Co-Leader Corpseboy I (Upcoming, 2024) Jeff Kaiser and Paul Botelho – Dome (Technophony, 2024) Jeff Kaiser and Andrew Pask: The Choir Boys – Surveilled (Technophony, 2023) Larval: Jeff Kaiser, Seth Davis, Kevin Cheli …
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, …
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 …
Alpine to Bakersfield to Berkeley…a beautiful drive…
I’m guest lecturing at The Jazzschool in Berkeley, California this coming week…and decided to make a bit of a Spring Break trip out of it. Spent time with Nicholas Deyoe, Tom McNalley and Frannie Garretson at …
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Vacation, August 2011…
Currently I’m in Cottage Grove, Oregon trying to write some new music for my Ockodektet concert in November and working on some Max/MSP/Jitter projects. On the way out of town, I participated in a concert at …
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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 …