Musician & Composer

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), New York’s Downtown scene (Ikue Mori), 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

Mon 22 June Jun

8:00 pm

Vandermark plays Field Kitchen/Field Kitchen plays Vandermark

My second of two performances with the band, Field Kitchen, during their weekly residency at Moondog in June. The group has a shifting cast of characters (including me), but the […]

Sun 28 June Jun

7:00 pm

Night School: Christa Baclia (video) & Ken Vandermark (reeds)

Night School is a performance series organized in Chicago by Erez Dessel which features collaborations between improvising musicians and video artists. The event on June 28th will present the following […]

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Latest Recordings & Releases

October Flowers for Joe McPhee

Ken Vandermark
El Infierno Musical II

Christof Kurzmann, Katinka Kleijn, Lia Kohl, Dave Rempis, Ken Vandermark
Pivot

Mats Gustafsson, Tomeka Reid, Chad Taylor, Ken Vandermark
Fourth Atlas

Ken Vandermark & Tim Daisy
Broadcast Transformer

Edition Redux
This Is Not A Holiday!

Terrie Ex & Ken Vandermark