KaiBorg is:

David Borgo
Saxophones/Laptop

Jeff Kaiser
Quartertone Trumpet/Laptop

KaiBorg, the electro-acoustic duo of Jeff Kaiser and David Borgo, explores the intersections of cutting-edge computer music and jazz- and world-inflected contemporary improvisation. Employing custom signal processing techniques and hardware mapping strategies, the musicians perform on “hybrid instruments” that extend their acoustic sonic palettes and afford new spatialization opportunities, all without sacrificing the sense of intimacy and speed of interaction required in improvised settings.

Described as “a surging sonic kaleidoscope” (San Diego Union Tribune) that “alternately overwhelms the senses and gives pause for contemplation” (Gapplegate Review), KaiBorg’s music is “quite cosmic, yet never indulgent” (Downtown Music Gallery), filled with “strange sounds and odd surprises” (Babysue). Last year the duo released its first compact disc entitled Harvesting Metadata on the pfMENTUM label.

KaiBorg has performed internationally at STEIM (Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music) in Amsterdam and The University of Göteborg and the Brötznow club in Sweden, and closer to home at NWEAMO (the NorthWest Electro-Acoustic Music Organization), the International Society for Improvised Music conference, the UC "State of the Arts" festival, the gala opening of the Conrad Prebys Music Center at UC San Diego, and the Palomar College Concert Hour.

Saxophonist David Borgo is an ethnomusicologist and an Associate Professor of Music at UC San Diego. He won first prize at the International John Coltrane Festival in 1994 and has released seven CDs and one DVD under his own name.  David’s book Sync or Swarm: Improvising Music in a Complex Age (Continuum International Publishing Group) won the Alan P. Merriam Prize from the Society for Ethnomusicology in 2006 as the most distinguished book published during the previous year.

For more information: davidborgo.com