- Corpseboy • Jeff Kaiser, Keith Wecker, Anthony Cammarota • 20
- Chainsaw Fugue (Andy Au & Per Bloland) • tumulus clusters • for lap steel feedback banjo and live video • 15
- Sarah Belle Reid, Ryan Gaston, and Vinny Golia • Falls Apart Two Days Later (Oh Well) • Improvisation for homemade electronic instruments, amplified trumpet, woodwinds, and laptop • 20
- Board of Regents: Ritwik Banerji, Jean-Francois Charles, Will Yager • bass, clarinets & electronics, tenor sax & electronics • 20
- Total: 75 mins
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Corpseboy
Jeff Kaiser, Keith Wecker, Anthony Cammarota
Jeff Kaiser’s Corpseboy (I-Ching 7, six in the third place) is a shifting cast of improvising musicians performing Kaiser’s compositions from his portfolio bearing the same name.
Jeff Kaiser is a composer, technologist, and performer who has been fortunate to perform and record with improvisors and composers from around the world throughout Europe and in the US, Mexico, and China. For more information: jeffkaiser.com
Keith Arthur Wecker is a composer, improvisor, and multi-instrumentalist using technology to explore the timbral and temporal properties of granular synthesis in the creation of electroacoustic music. Keith puts a focus on bringing the in-between sounds to the forefront through a layering intensive process, creating rich sonic textures that evoke a meditative sonic environment for the listener to immerse themselves in. His personal approach to sound creation is highlighted by the diversity of the acts he has shared the stage with (Tim Hecker, Clark, Sumac, Thundercat, Wolf Eyes, Six Organs of Admittance, Goblin, Lori Goldston and Sun Araw) as well as participating in projects of Anthony Braxton and Glenn Branca. Keith has had his music featured across North America, including multiple appearances at the Vancouver International Jazz Festival, New Forms Festival, VU Symposium, and Improvisors Summit PDX.
Anthony Cammarota is a scholar-artist whose work integrates performance, composition, and technological innovation. With a Bachelor of Music degree from Cornish College of the Arts and a Master of Music degree from the University of Central Missouri, Anthony’s academic journey has been deeply intertwined with their creative pursuits. His research focuses on interactive music systems, sound design, and algorithmic composition, using programming environments like Max and Ableton Live to develop new approaches to performance and composition. Through these tools, Anthony explores the dynamic interplay between human expression and machine agency, crafting systems that challenge traditional notions of musicianship and performance. For more information: anthonycammarota.com
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tumulus clusters
for lap steel feedback banjo and live video
Chainsaw Fugue
Chainsaw Fugue is an audio-visual duo based in Cincinnati, OH. We make noisy electronic and acoustic sounds and noisy video, all generated live. Every show is different, come check us out. Our first video album, Sledge Feathers, is available on YouTube and has the critics in a tizzy:
“By far the best album they’ve ever released. Top of the list. Give it a look/listen.” – Andy Au
“Definitely the worst album in this duo’s career. Still worth checking out though.” – Per Bloland
Chainsaw Fugue is:
Andy Au: Born in Chicago in 1972, Andrew Au was influenced from an early age by science fiction, religion, reading and art. With each series of work he produces, he creates a working narrative that sets the parameters for the aesthetic conventions he uses. In recent series of works, he has treated memetic study as a pseudo-science, presenting cultural ideas as if they were living and evolving creatures. His works also challenge the notions of design being evident in lifeforms through a series of life products that will be evolved, rather than designed. He teaches foundation studies at Miami University at Middletown, OH, and maintains a studio with his wife in Cincinnati.
Per Bloland is a composer of acoustic and electroacoustic music whose works have been described by the New York Times as “lush, caustic,” and “irresistible.” His compositions range from solo pieces to works for large orchestra, and incorporate video, dance, and custom-built electronics. He has received awards and recognition from a bunch or really impressive organizations, so impressive. He is currently an Associate Professor of Composition and Technology at Miami University, Ohio, and working on an Artistic Research Residency at IRCAM in Paris. A portrait CD of his work is available from Tzadik (now streamable!).
Per Bloland is a composer of acoustic and electroacoustic music whose works have been praised by the New York Times as “lush, caustic,” and “irresistible.” His compositions range from intimate solo pieces to works for large orchestra, and incorporate video, dance, and custom-built electronics. He has received awards and recognition from organizations including IRCAM, ICMA, SEAMUS/ASCAP, the Ohio Arts Council, Digital Art Awards of Tokyo, ISCM, the Martirano Competition, and SCI/ASCAP. His first opera, Pedr Solis, commissioned and premiered by Guerilla Opera in 2015, received rave reviews from the Boston Globe and the Boston Classical Review. He has received commissions from Unheard-of//Ensemble, loadbang, Keith Kirchoff, Wild Rumpus, the Ecce Ensemble, Ensemble Pi, the Callithumpian Consort, Stanford’s CCRMA, SEAMUS/ASCAP, the Kenners, Michael Straus and Patti Cudd. His music can be heard on the TauKay (Italy), Capstone, Spektral, and SEAMUS labels, and through the MIT Press. A portrait CD of his work, performed by Ecce Ensemble, is available on Tzadik.
Bloland is the co-creator of the Electromagnetically-Prepared Piano, about which he has given numerous lecture/demonstrations and published a paper. In 2013 he completed a five-month Musical Research Residency at IRCAM in Paris, and is currently in the midst of a second multi-segment residency there. He is an Associate Professor of Composition and Technology, and coordinator of the Composition and Music Technology areas at Miami University, Ohio. He is also a founding composition faculty member at the SPLICE Institute, and recently established the Composition program at the Montecito International Music Festival. He received his D.M.A. in composition from Stanford University and his M.M. from the University of Texas at Austin.
Scores may be purchased at www.babelscores.com/perbloland
For more information visit: www.perbloland.com
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Falls Apart Two Days Later (Oh Well)
Improvisation for homemade electronic instruments, amplified trumpet, woodwinds, and laptop
Sarah Belle Reid, Ryan Gaston, and Vinny Golia
This improvisational performance presents and gradually recontextualizes the familiar sounds of late 20th century improvisation and computer music—using low-level recursive electronic processes to break them apart, turn them inside-out, and dynamically restructure them into a variety of unfamiliar forms.
The sounds of tubes, trumpet extended techniques, and woodwind squawks splinter into digital clicks and pulsar trains; whistles, pops, and crackles shift sporadically into explosive blasts, sonic caricatures, and frantic gestures before dissolving into a soft, intermittent digital fizz.
Sarah Belle Reid performs on amplified trumpet and laptop; Ryan Gaston performs on a new digital modular synthesizer system of his own design. Vinny Golia plays on woodwinds—both very large and very small. The performers must rely on careful listening and quick reflexes, pushing their instruments to the limits and learning/re-learning their shifting behaviors over the course of the performance.
Ryan Gaston, Sarah Belle Reid, and Vinny Golia make improvised music with homemade electroacoustic instruments and devices, trumpets (and other tubes), woodwinds, and amplified objects.
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Board of Regents
bass, clarinets & electronics, tenor sax & electronics
Jean-Francois Charles
Free improvisation featuring acoustic and electronics instruments.Ritwik Banerji is an experimental ethnographer, interactive media artist, and saxophonist. His work focuses on the development of artificial intelligence as a technology for ethnographic depiction, performance, and elicitation. He is currently writing a monograph on the relationship between freedom and knowledge in the contemporary musical practice of free improvisation drawing on several years of ethnographic fieldwork in Berlin, Chicago, and the San Francisco Bay Area. Through his creative work, he has collaborated with Tony Malaby, Axel Dörner, Rob Frye, Ben Lamar Gay, Theresa Wong, Liz Allbee, Joel Grip, Matthias Müller, and Tritha Sinha.
Will Yager is a double bassist committed to experimental music, improvisation, and collaborating with artists in the creation of new solo and chamber repertoire for the double bass. He is a founding member of both LIGAMENT, a duo with soprano Anika Kildegaard, and the trio Wombat with Justin Comer and Carlos Cotallo Solares. Performance highlights include Bang on a Can’s Long Play Festival, Big Ears Festival, High Zero Festival, Omaha Under the Radar, SPLICE Festival, SEAMUS, Experimental Sound Studios’ Quarantine Concerts, Oh My Ears Festival, and the International Society of Bassists Convention.
Jean-François Charles is a composer, clarinetist, and electronic musician. He recently released a polystylistic Missa brevis Abbaye de Thélème starring Anika Kildegaard, and directed the companion Agnus Dei music video. In 2023, he co-composed with Nicolas Sidoroff a full soundtrack to the 1923 Hunchback of Notre Dame movie. He has performed with classical, jazz, and other sound artists, from Maurice Merle to Douglas Ewart or Gozo Yoshimasu. He worked with Karlheinz Stockhausen for the world premiere and studio recording of Rechter Augenbrauentanz.
Dr. Banerji teaches at Iowa State University, Dr. Charles at the University of Iowa, and Dr. Yager at the University of Northern Iowa.