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Category: Notes from the field

Interview for PostGenre: Music Beyond Category

Posted on July 21, 2025 by Ken Vandermark

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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Posted in Interviews, Notes from the field

Back To ESS To Work With Corbett vs. Dempsey

Posted on July 18, 2025 by Ken Vandermark

[photo of John Corbett and Jim Dempsey by Meg Noe] On Thursday, July 17th, I returned to Experimental Sound Studio in Chicago to complete mixes on two projects for the […]

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Posted in Notes from the field, Recordings

Studio Work

Posted on July 11, 2025 by Ken Vandermark

[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 […]

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Posted in Notes from the field, Recordings

Discussion with Furkan Çolak

Posted on July 3, 2025 by Ken Vandermark

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 […]

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Edition XL concert update

Posted on June 30, 2025 by Ken Vandermark

[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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Posted in Notes from the field, Observations

After and Before

Posted on June 17, 2025 by Ken Vandermark
NRG Ensemble photo by John Corbett (left to right: Fred Lonberg-Holm, Kent Kessler, Steve Hunt, Brian Sandstrom, Dave Rempis, Ken Vandermark)

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 […]

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Posted in Notes from the field, Performances

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