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.
![Studio Work: Two days were spent at Experimental Sound Studio in Chicago this week, each focusing on different aspects of documenting the creative process. On Wednesday, July 9th I recorded an interpretation of a composition by John Cage which Cage sent by fax to the photographer and filmmaker, Chris Felver, in October of 1991. This performance of the material is meant to be used as part of a documentary about the artist that Felver is currently working on (as is a version, called “The Unquestioned Answers”, by Andrew Culver who was Cage’s assistant for the last 11 years of his life). The next day I went back to ESS with Nate Wooley to mix recordings by the trio we have with Paul Lytton, made by Christophe Albertijn on September 14th, 2024 at Paul’s painting and rehearsal studio near Sippenaeken, Belgium. The music is a rare document of Paul’s work with his electronics and “tabletop” percussion. Both sessions ran smoothly because of the assistance and expertise of recording engineer, Alex Inglizian.
(link to full essay at kenvandermark.com, with more information about work on the Cage composition and the recordings/concerts with Paul Lytton and Nate Wooley)
[photo of Ken Vandermark and Chris Felver by John Corbett; photo of Nate Wooley, Dizzy, and Ken Vandermark by Alex Inglizian]
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