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Category: Notes from the field

Interview for PostGenre: Music Beyond Category

Posted on July 21, 2025 by Ken Vandermark
Interview for PostGenre: Music Beyond Category

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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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 Corbett vs. Dempsey label, with major assistance from John […]

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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 the creative process.  On Wednesday, July 9th I […]

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Posted in Notes from the field, Recordings

Discussion with Furkan Çolak

Posted on July 3, 2025 by Ken Vandermark
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 […]

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Edition XL concert update

Posted on June 30, 2025 by Ken Vandermark
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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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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