Book: Loopers: Aesthetics, Technologies, and Creative Practitioners

"Our Lady of the Blessed Tape Loop" by Jeff Kaiser. Photograph of a loop he used in the early 80s.

Authors:Jeff Kaiser and Gregory Taylor In process. Do you use repetition as part of your creative practice? We want (and need) your input, including: professional and amateur musician/sound artists and developers of hardware and software. Please …

Article: How I lost 150 lbs. thanks to Max/MSP!

[Note: This is an older paper that pre-dates my PhD studies. It catches the mood of the time when composers and performers in certain arenas were viewed as necessarily categorically distinct. Thankfully, not so much now.] …

New video, “Ode to a Spy Balloon, Part 1”

Ode to a Spy Balloon

A new oddity from me, “Ode to a Spy Balloon (Part 1)” features me playing balloons while generative software plays a foley footstep sample library. I don’t know why I did this one, but it was …

The Choir Boys with Choir – MOXsonic 2023

The Choir Boys (Jeff Kaiser and Andrew Pask) premiere a new concert length work for, The Choir Boys with Choir, featuring the UCM Concert Choir under the direction of Jackson Thomas. Originally intended to be performed at MOXsonic …

Loopers Book Project by Jeff Kaiser and Gregory Taylor

"Our Lady of the Blessed Tape Loop" by Jeff Kaiser. Photograph of a loop he used in the early 80s.

I am very excited to announce the beginning of a research/book project on loopers that I will be writing with my friend Gregory Taylor. The working title is, Loopers: Aesthetics, Technologies, and Creative Practitioners. We want …

Ableton Educator Sessions

Educator friends who teach music technology: There is a free Ableton Educator Session tomorrow, and it is full of a variety of different presentations on teaching music technology…and it is FREE and online. “Educators from across …

The Organized Sound – A Tribute Concert to Edgard Varèse

I am very pleased to be a part of this exciting concert in Beijing organized, hosted, and curated by the always remarkable and awesome Qi Mengjie Maggie. The organized sound- A tribute concert to Edvard Varèse …

The Choir Boys at UCM

Andrew Pask came for a visit the University of Central Missouri the week of September 12, 2022, and we had a remarkable time. He spoke with the Music Business class, Creative Software Design (Max/MSP), ran an …

pfMENTUM Selected Reviews

Links: About pfMENTUM/Artists pfMENTUM Recordings: CDs, LPs, DVDs archival information pfMENTUM Cover Art Archive pfMENTUM Selected ReviewspfMENTUM Selected Reviews Here is a partial list of pfMENTUM selected reviews. We are still adding to it, please help …