Amsterdam 2009, Day 8-20

What an amazing time this has been in Amsterdam. Highlights (but not limited to!): playing and hanging with Michael Moore and Michael Vatcher, playing/recording with Anne La Berge, hanging with Mary Oliver, Trevor Grahl, Susanna Von …

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Berlin 2009, Day 16-18

With Roy Carroll, post-caffeine in Prenzlauer Berg. I met Roy when we both were playing at the Sparks Festival at UMN, Minneapolis. An awesome musician from Ireland, who has settled down in Berlin. Mostly studying, or …

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Berlin Day 3 and 4

In the afternoon of my second day here, we went to Alexanderplatz and surrounding areas (see previous post)…here is some of the stuff I didn’t get to… Art exhibit at former post office.(Click on any image …

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Berlin, Day 1 and 2…

(Click on any image to enlarge) I’m here, and stoked! My friend Phil Skaller (composer, pianist, and fellow PhD student in Integrative Studies at UCSD) and I have sublet an apartment in Berlin for August. It …

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Vision Festival…New York Weekend…

(Phil saying, “Kaiser! Get rid of the camera!”) What a wonderful weekend in New York. Phil Skaller and I went to perform a live soundtrack to Bill Brand’s film, Angular Momentum, at the Vision Festival. I …

A Pause for Pinter…

Having done incidental music/sounds for several of his plays, this saddened me, Harold Pinter was such a great playwright. But the Pinter Pause will live on. Or will it? (Read the link.) From the AP:Nobel Laureate …

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KaiBorg says, “Hoi!”

KaiBorg at STEIM After our stay in Göteborg, KaiBorg moved on to Amsterdam (which involved flying and transferring at Oslo, where we picked up a plane of loud Norwegians all reading the same newspaper article on …

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KaiBorg says, “Hej!”

I’ve just returned from gigs with KaiBorg, (David Borgo and myself) in Sweden and The Netherlands. David put together a fantastic tour, and with the help of the UCSD music department, I was able to go. …