Ken Vandermark
Ken Vandermark (USA, 1964) is a renowned avant-garde composer, improviser, saxophonist/clarinetist, curator, and writer. He has collaborated and recorded with key figures from the AACM (Fred Anderson), FMP (Peter Brötzmann), British improvisation (Paul Lytton), post-punk (Terrie Ex), Ethiopian music (Getachew Mekuria), and Japanese free jazz (Akira Sakata). Since 2012, he has directed the Catalytic Sound cooperative and runs Audiographic Records (founded 2014). In 1999, he was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship for his contributions to music.
Calendar
7:00 pm
Edition XL (Berman, Dessel, Finnigan, Macri, McDonald, Vandermark)
Edition XL is a new ensemble built on the foundation of Ken Vandermark’s critically acclaimed band, Edition Redux (with Erez Dessel: keyboards, Lily Finnegan: drums, Beth […]
9:30 pm
Edition XL (Berman, Dessel, Finnigan, Macri, McDonald, Vandermark)
Edition XL is a new ensemble built on the foundation of Ken Vandermark’s critically acclaimed band, Edition Redux (with Erez Dessel: keyboards, Lily Finnegan: drums, Beth […]
8:00 pm
Edition XL (Berman, Dessel, Finnigan, Macri, McDonald, Vandermark)
Edition XL is a new ensemble built on the foundation of Ken Vandermark’s critically acclaimed band, Edition Redux (with Erez Dessel: keyboards, Lily Finnegan: drums, Beth […]
8:00 pm
Edition XL (Berman, Dessel, Finnigan, Macri, McDonald, Vandermark)
Edition XL is a new ensemble built on the foundation of Ken Vandermark’s critically acclaimed band, Edition Redux (with Erez Dessel: keyboards, Lily Finnegan: drums, Beth […]
Latest Releases
Medicine Kit
Terri Kapsalis, Damon Locks, Ken Vandermark
Broadcast Transformer
Edition Redux
This Is Not A Holiday!
Terrie Ex & Ken Vandermark
Koniec
Sebastiaan Janssen, Hubert Kostkiewicz, Ken Vandermark & Marta Warelis
Better A Rook Than A Pawn
Edition Redux
Distant Cousins
Paul Lytton & Ken Vandermark
Recent Posts
Studio Work
[photo of Ken Vandermark and Chris Felver by John Corbett] Two days were spent at Experimental Sound Studio in Chicago this week, each focusing on different aspects of documenting […]
Discussion with Furkan Çolak
Furkan Çolak, a member of the Noesis Collective of musicians and artists based in Ankara, Turkey, recently got in touch to interview me. The discussion was in-depth and far […]
Edition XL concert update
[left to right: Erez Dessel, Nick Macri, Lily Finnegan] Back in February, work with the sextet Edition XL began. As you can tell from these rehearsal photos taken in March […]
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Musician (improviser/composer) who plays saxophones and clarinets, and works with a variety of styles and artists.
![Furkan Çolak, a member of the Noesis Collective of musicians and artists based in Ankara, Turkey, recently got in touch to interview me. The discussion was in-depth and far ranging and has just been published in English and Turkish on the Noesis website (links in bio).
Meeting Furkan and learning about Noesis has been a significant reminder for the importance of mutual support during these very troubled times. That, no matter how far apart we may be geographically, we can still live in the same neighborhood: socially, culturally, and politically. My thanks to Furkan and the Noesis Collective for their interest in my work and that of Catalytic Sound.
More information about Noesis:
Noesis Collective is a music and art collective founded by a group of friends in Ankara. Its aim is to create a space where different types of music and art activities can come together and interact, with the understanding that the need to express through production is common, only the methods change.
noesis.blog is a collectively produced platform where different forms of expression can stand side by side, intersect and transform each other.
If you would like them to feature your work on our page, you can contact them at: info@noesiscollective.com
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