Final Day Overall, a fantastic festival with a nice (not huge, not small) and mostly attentive audience. I love Boise, part of me would love to move there. It is beautiful, housing is reasonably priced, and …
Second Annual Boise Experimental Music Festival: Day Two
Another beautiful day for music…. Moe! Staiano and Z’EV Stefan Smulovitz Ted Killian Jeff Kaiser and Gregory Taylor(photo by M.A. Taylor) Rob Price and David Grollman
Second Annual Boise Experimental Music Festival: Day One
The Second Annual Boise Experimental Music Festival began today. What a blast, a great music and social event. So wonderful to hang out with like-minded people. Here are a few images from the first night: Joe …
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 …
New In Chess and ZUGZWANG
I love receiving reviews/mentions in odd places. Well, not that this magazine is odd, but let’s say it is a “statistically unusual” magazine from which to receive a review of creative improvised electro-acoustic music in. First, …
KaiserLooper….
Bill Harrington was using my software, the KaiserLooper, at a concert last Wednesday. All of a sudden while focusing and concentrating on the performance, a window popped up on his computer that said, “Jeff Kaiser will …
Odd memories of Paul Whiteman…
Little known fact: My step-grandmother’s (she is deceased) first husband (my grandfather was her fourth) reportedly played with the Paul Whiteman Orchestra. She kindly gave me his cornet…a very nice instrument…this memory was triggered by an …
Choir Boys: Eight Days in Chicago-4.12.2006
After another afternoon of teaching, we had our debut at the Empty Bottle, a great, classic, jazz/creative music bar in Chicago. Unfortunately, it lived up to its name, it was somewhat empty…but we had a good …