Scores by Jeff Kaiser Most of the following scores use a hybrid notation that combines traditional and graphic elements. Several of the scores are for large ensemble: 132350 and 13 Themes for a Triskaidekaphobic are modular …
[REVISED, added date] KaiBorg Bay Area gigs coming up soon…
KaiBorg…(!) It’s been a while since David Borgo and I have performed together as KaiBorg, so we are both excited about three upcoming gigs: ******************* Friday, December 5, 8pm Berkeley Arts Festival – 2133 University Avenue, Berkeley (next …
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KaiserLooperjk.pushjk.softstepKaiserLooper2-2KaiserLooper2-3jk.reverserKaiGen-M2KaiGen-Smaple-Palyer2KaiGen-R2KaiGen-I-Ching2KaiGen-C2-v2The place where Jeff Kaiser started out isn’t nearly as interesting as where he’s going, and where he’s tarried along the way; Classically trained as a trumpet player (and the owner of one sweet quarter-tone horn, …
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 …
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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 …
Chess and The Mouth Harp…
Mig Greengard over at The Daily Dirt (a chess blog) was researching the lesser-known chess Grandmaster Vladimir Potkin. (In Greengard’s words, “The 29-year-old Russian is better known for not being better known.”) Along the way, he …
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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 …
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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 …
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Berlin, Day 5
My friends follow me everywhere, even here in Friedrichshain(Click any image to enlarge) After a morning/early afternoon of studying and a late lunch at Cafe V (awesome!) we headed off to Friedrichshain to visit musician Jürg …