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KaiBorg is: |
David
Borgo Jeff
Kaiser |
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| KaiBorg is an electro-acoustic improvising duo featuring David Borgo on saxophones, electric wind instrument (EWI) and laptop and Jeff Kaiser on quartertone trumpet and laptop. KaiBorg employs real-time interactive strategies from jazz and improvised music within the expanded sonic palette and space made possible by the use of live electronics. Our goal is to create hybrid instruments with which we have the same intimate feedback relationship as our traditional acoustic ones. Our performances aim to sonically foreground the cybernetic processes of feedback, interconnection, communication and emergence. David Borgo is a saxophonist, multi-media artist, ethnomusicologist, and Associate Professor of Music at UCSD in the Integrative Studies Program. He has released five CDs and one DVD as a leader, and his book, Sync or Swarm: Improvising Music in a Complex Age, won the Alan P. Merriam Prize from the Society for Ethnomusicology in 2006 as the most distinguished book published during the previous year. Jeff Kaiser is a trumpet player, electro-acoustic performer, composer, conductor, programmer and PhD. student in the Integrated Studies Program at UCSD. He is the founder and owner of the pfMENTUM and Angry Vegan record labels. Jeff has released numerous albums as leader/co-leader, as well as been a featured performing artist at festivals, universities, clubs and concert halls around the U.S. and abroad. His trumpet playing, and use of extended trumpet techniques, has also been featured on films for the large and small screen. |
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