Jeff Kaiser

Sunday, January 31, 2010

Analog/Digital: KaiBorg and Tiner/Glass in Ventura

We had a blast in Ventura last night, packed house at the San Buenaventura Artists Union Gallery on the ocean in Ventura. (Big thanks, Phil Taggart, for making it happen!) A continuation of our "Analog/Digital" theme from two nights ago. Kris Tiner improvised to film by Allen Glass, followed by KaiBorg with live video improvisations by Joachim Goßmann. This has turned out to be an intriguing pairing (acoustic/celluloid and electro-acoustic/digital video) and we hope to do more together in the future. Afterwards, a FANTASTIC party at Upfront Gallery hosted by Carolyn Friend. A truly enjoyable evening all around and a great time for me to re-connect with friends in Ventura. Pics of Kris and Allen by me, pics of KaiBorg by Kris Tiner. Also, a big thanks to our friends at ICST, Philippe and Jasch, for their fantastic ambisonic objects for Max/MSP....makes improvising spatialization fun.

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Film projections Allen Glass

with Kris Tiner

More Allen and Kris

KaiBorg

KaiBorg with video by Joachim Goßmann

There's something cool about three projectors...

...and Joachim's video stuff all side by side

Friday, January 29, 2010

Analog/Digital: Multi-media in Bakersfield...

KaiBorg had a great time last night in Bakersfield. Opening set was Kris Tiner on acoustic trumpet with two 16mm (simultaneous) film projections by Allen Glass...wonderful stuff. We then followed and were joined by video artist Joachim Goßmann. A packed house, thanks to Kris Tiner for putting it all together and for Metro Galleries for giving us a place to be.

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The Grapevine was beautiful on the way up...

Film artist Allen Glass, video artist Joachim Goßmann

Joachim and Allen

Kris Tiner with film by Allen Glass

More Kris and Allen...

KaiBorg

KaiBorg with video by Joachim Goßmann

Chatting afterwards...

Milts! with Allen, Kris, James Sproul

Joachim, the always awesome Chris Truitt, Me

Joachim and David

Photo Gallery for KaiBorg CD Release concert, UCSD

I've uploaded some pics from the KaiBorg CD release concert at UCSD, including some wonderful pics by photographer Sylvia Borgo. Click to see.

Thursday, January 07, 2010

Mark Dresser, Han Bennink, Mary Oliver session...

Jeff and Joachim in Studio 269/203, University of California San Diego
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I had the absolute pleasure of recording Mark Dresser, Han Bennink and Mary Oliver last night. My dear friend and tonmeister Joachim Goßmann joined me working the gig. Sitting listening to them improvise and play tunes, including several by Misha Mengelberg was wonderful. A joy when this type of session comes along.

Here are some pics from it.....

Mary Oliver, Mark Dresser, Han Bennink
(In front of them, you see what looks like an old fashioned tv antenna or something....it is a REALLY nice stereo tube omni mic that we used for the room from KMF Audio.) Also, above it, you can see the Neumann's we used for additional room sounds. (Thanks, Tom!)

Mary Oliver, viola and Schoeps

Mark Dresser, bass, Schoeps, Neumann TLM 103, DPA

Han Bennink, snare, paper bags, two Josephson's and a Shure KSM27

Mary and Mark

(Taken from the control room, no flash...)

Han going...

going...

and...

some...

more....

going

KMF Mic...

Joachim Goßmann at the console...

Wednesday, January 06, 2010

More tea....!

A cup of the fantastic Awazon on my balcony...
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My friend Keith, who is also known to send me some amazing cigars (look earlier on this blog), has just made me a rich man...in tea.

After the wonderful 2008 Menghai Five Colored Peacock, and the über delicious Menghai V93..Keith sent me eight baggies of delight today:

Eight baggies of delight

Closeup of the Awazon

Monday, January 04, 2010

New Angry Vegan release...

NEW CD!

Grain of the Voice

Corpseboy: voice and laptop
Justin Cassidy: electronics

A labyrinthine exploration of voice, electronics and more electronics.

From bone-crunching agressive noise
to soft and bubbly vocal caressing.
A lovely first album by Corpseboy with
experienced noisester Justin Cassidy.

A co-release of Angry Vegan Records and
Paper Cuts Records.

Click here to look, listen and buy....
http://angryvegan.com/
http://www.papercutsrecords.com/

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Fall 2009...gone...

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Fall in San Diego!
(Is gone...)

This quarter flew by...and I still haven't taken my qualifying exams....BUT I had a great time: touring with David Borgo (KaiBorg) with gigs in Santa Barbara at Colter Frazier's series, and UC Santa Cruz at the International Society for Improvised music (joined by video artist Mark Henrickson-thanks for the great photo, Kris Tiner!) and I presented a paper on John Zorn's Arcana series and metaphor. The Desert Fathers (Gregory Taylor and myself) played in Madison, WI. A busy, work filled, and fun quarter. I feel lucky, good friends to be creative and experience life with...