I was recently reminded of this…my bio on allmusic.com. It is not up-to-date…but I love Chadbourne, thanks, Eugene! http://www.allmusic.com/artist/jeff-kaiser-mn0000227053/biography **************** Artist Biography by Eugene Chadbourne Jeff Kaiser is a composer, trumpet player, conductor, and private music instructor …
Videos
Videos Please take a moment to subscribe to my YouTube Channel by clicking here. I have embedded a variety of videos below featuring my solo work (Prelude and Fog, ZEITNOT, Sitzfleisch, and more), recording session videos …
Max Native Abstractions for Ableton Push 2
I have been using Ableton Push in my duo with Trevor Henthorn (Made Audible using Ableton Live) for around a year now, and absolutely loving it in the studio and on stage. I decided to incorporate Ableton Push 2 into my Max (Cycling74.com) …
Scores
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 …
Max
KaiserLooperjk.pushjk.reverser 2jk.softstepKaiserLooper2-2KaiserLooper2-3KaiGen-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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …