In advance of my No Idea residency in Austin on May 29 and 30, 2025, organized by Chris Cogburn, I was interviewed by Rob Shepherd for his “PostGenre: Music Beyond […]
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Author: Ken Vandermark
On Thursday, July 17th, I returned to Experimental Sound Studio in Chicago to complete mixes on two projects for the Corbett vs. Dempsey label, with major assistance from John Corbett, […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Back in February, work with the sextet Edition XL began. As you can tell from these rehearsal photos taken in March the temperature in Chicago has climbed substantially since then… […]
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In John Yau’s brilliant book, “A Thing Among Things: The Art of Jasper Johns” (Distributed Art Publishers: 2008), Yau often brings up the idea that Johns flipped the conventional idea […]
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