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James Fei

JAMES FEI (b. Taipei, Taiwan) moved to the US in 1992 to pursue a degree in electrical engineering. He has since been active as a composer, improvisor and electronic musician. Works by Fei have been performed by the Bang on a Can All-Stars, Orchestra of the S.E.M. Ensemble and Noord-Hollands Philharmonisch Orkest. Recordings of his works can be found on Leo Records, Improvised Music from Japan, CRI and Organized Sound. In addition to writing concert music for conventional and electro-acoustic ensembles, Fei also creates sound installations and performs on saxophones and live electronics. Fei joined the faculty of Mills College in 2006. Recent CD releases include Sieves, electro-acoustic by Fei and Kato Hideki [Improvised Music From Japan], Alto Quartets [Organized Sound Recordings], Studies on the ANS (Russian synthesizer from 1958) [Krabbesholm], and Bode Sound Project, a tribute CD to early electronic instrument pioneer Harold Bode. Fei has taught classes and lectured at Wesleyan University, Columbia University, The Art Institute of Chicago, Taipei Normal University, Theremin Center (Moscow), Pro Arte (St

Vilnius Mama Jazz Festival 2022

by John Sharpe
June 6, 2022

Vilnius Mama Jazz Festival National Drama Theater Lithuania May 27-29, 2022 Introduction It's a little known fact that Lithuania has more jazz festivals per capita than any other country. Prominent among them is the Mama Jazz Festival, held annually amid the baroque beauty of the capital Vilnius. And it says something ...

Other Minds 25, Day 4

by John Chacona
November 1, 2021

Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 Taube Atrium Theater Other Minds Festival San Francisco, CA October 17, 2021 Outside the hotel on the morning of the final day of Other Minds 25, curator Harry Bernstein, nearing the conclusion of the twice-postponed festival over which ...

Roscoe Mitchell with Ostravska Banda: Distant Radio Transmission

by Alberto Bazzurro
March 22, 2021

Decisamente prolifico, in anni recenti, Roscoe Mitchell, e non ce ne rallegreremo mai abbastanza. Certo, con lui c'è sempre il rischio del prodotto non perfettamente a fuoco, centrato, in poche parole all'altezza del suo grande talento (e ormai, varcata la soglia degli ottanta, acclarato magistero, e da un po'), ma per fortuna non è questo il ...

Distant Radio Transmission

By Roscoe Mitchell

Label: Wide Hive Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Distant Radio Transmission; Nonaah Trio; Cutouts for Woodwind Quintet; 8.8.88 Pt 1; 8.8.88 Pt 2; 8.8.88 Pt 3.

Anthony Braxton's Sonic Genome at Turin's Jazz Festival 2015

by Francesco Martinelli
June 25, 2015

Egyptian Museum Turin Jazz Festival Turin, Italy May 28, 2015 Someone might ask: “Why is an African-American saxophonist from jny: Chicago performing inside the Egyptian Museum in Turin? Where is the connection between “da jazz" and Ancient Egypt?" Sorry, but it isn't a legitimate question. If you still don't make the ...

Doek Meets Anthony Braxton's Tri-Centric

April 22, 2015

Doek Festival 2015: Doek meets Tri-Centric 2-7 June 2015, Amsterdam @ Bimhuis, Zaal 100, Pianola Museum, Torpedo Theater, Het Perron Sparks will fly when ten top US musicians cross the Atlantic Ocean this June to work with ten of their Dutch counterparts. Six days full of intriguing music, where audiences get to know the work of ...

Roscoe Mitchell Trio: Angel City

by John Sharpe
April 15, 2015

Throughout his career Chicago multi instrumentalist and composer Roscoe Mitchell has forensically examined two key polarities. More than most he has focused on the tensions between sound and silence and composition and improvisation. On Angel City, a continuous 55-minute opus recorded over two days in 2012 at Mills College in Oakland where Mitchell is professor of ...

Anthony Braxton: Sax Quintet (New York) 1998

by John Sharpe
June 25, 2013

Saxophone agglomerations are not without precedent in reedman/composer Anthony Braxton's copious playbook. Indeed, his “Composition 37" for four saxophones on New York, Fall 1974 (Arista, 1975) could be said to have launched the genre, bringing together as it did three of the founder members of the pioneering World Saxophone Quartet two years before their eventual formation. ...

October 5th thru 8th, the Tri-Centric Foundation presents a 4-day festival "Energies, Ideas, Intuitions: The Tri-Centric Music of Anthony Braxton" at Roulette's new venue

September 30, 2011

This is the most comprehensive portrait of Anthony Braxton ever presented in the United States, with Braxton himself performing or conducting every night, leading a total of 60+ musicians. There will be world and U.S. premieres every evening. Prior to the event, we have released a FREE special sampler CD of Braxton's works, spanning over 3 ...