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) – …

Amsterdam: August 2, 2010

The Desert Father’s first day at STEIM was quite exciting….a wonderful recording session immediately followed by a crash…making the 1.68gb seven channel interleaved file recorded in Max/MSP unreadable…THANKFULLY, Audiofile Engineering came to the rescue with their …

Amsterdam: July 17-19, 2010

Ahhhh…So good to be back in Amsterdam! I’ll be here for the next three weeks. The first two are a “vacation” as a bit of a self-reward for making it through my PhD qualifying exams and …

Fall 2009…gone…

(Click any image to enlarge) Fall in San Diego!(Is gone…) This quarter flew by…and I still haven’t taken my qualifying exams….BUT I had a great time: touring with David Borgo (KaiBorg) with gigs in Santa Barbara …

Review in Computer Music Journal…

Computer Music Journal MIT Press Summer 2008, Vol. 32, No. 2, Pages 86-88 Reviewed by James Harley Guelph, Ontario, Canada The Desert Fathers is a duo comprising Jeff Kaiser and Gregory Taylor. Mr. Kaiser combines his …

Boise Stolen Cigar Brigade

We had our annual post Boise Experimental Music Festival (BEMF2) gathering Saturday night after the last set. This group, duly named after the appalling theft of one of my cigars last year, featured four of the …

I do love Idaho…

Idaho is one of my favorite states. Absolutely beautiful; beauty that is as much about what is not there, as what is. The sense of space is glorious. Click here for a short video I made …

Friday night at Spark…

Another great day. The highlight for me was DEFINITELY Gregory Taylor and Tom Hamer performing music with Mark Henrickson doing video improvisation. Gregory was using Radial to create gorgeous loops and textures with Tom playing, among …