This Sunday, April 30: Kudler/Gesualdi with The Early in West Philly; plus duo CD with Graham Stephenson
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Jesse Kudler
Apr 25, 2023, 9:08:40 AM4/25/23
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Hello all!
That link again: https://studio34yoga.com/events/music-two-duos/
My duo with dancer Christina Gesualdi performs this Sunday evening, nice and near my house, in lovely West Philly. We're on a bill with rather different but great improvising duo The Early. Would be gratified if you're able to attend. Christina and I have been working hard on developing our duo language since "before" and have been back at it nicely the past year or two honing various strategies, formats, instrumentation, etc. This will be our first performance in Philadelphia in a little while, in a nice yoga/dance space with lots of room to move around. I'm also excited to finally catch buds The Early live.
Scroll down below the show info for details on a very different duo from me/Christina, me and amplified trumpeter Graham Stephenson, on a "new" CD from last year.
Sunday April 30 [info]
8:00pm
The Early (guitars/drums/electronics)
Christina Gesualdi and Jesse Kudler (movement/music)
Doors/café 8:00pm, music at 8:30pm
Suggested donation $10–$20, no one turned away
The Early (guitars/drums/electronics)
Christina Gesualdi and Jesse Kudler (movement/music)
Doors/café 8:00pm, music at 8:30pm
Suggested donation $10–$20, no one turned away
Studio 34, 4522 Baltimore Ave., Philadelphia, PA
Formed in North Jersey in 2004, The Early span two decades, two coastlines, and an evolving lineup of multi-instrumentalists. In its current Philadelphia iteration (Alex Lewis on guitar/synths and Jake Nussbaum on drums/electronics) the two-piece metabolizes the textural grandeur of post-rock, the communicational intimacy of jazz improvisation, and the patient grooves of minimalism, refining a decades-long extrasensory correspondence. Hear more from The Early here.
The duo of Christina Gesualdi and Jesse Kudler explores the inter-dependence of movement and sound, with the boundaries between dancer and accompanist deliberately troubled; hierarchies between audio and visual constantly shift as byproducts of either medium become examined or picked up for elaboration in the other. The duo has been performing in art galleries, dance spaces, and concert venues since 2018.
The duo of Christina Gesualdi and Jesse Kudler explores the inter-dependence of movement and sound, with the boundaries between dancer and accompanist deliberately troubled; hierarchies between audio and visual constantly shift as byproducts of either medium become examined or picked up for elaboration in the other. The duo has been performing in art galleries, dance spaces, and concert venues since 2018.
That link again: https://studio34yoga.com/events/music-two-duos/
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Apposite Rejoinder CD/DL
Jesse Kudler and Graham Stephenson
Jesse Kudler and Graham Stephenson
We've gotten some nice feedback since releasing this disc last year, e.g. here. You can get CD copies or purchase a download here or here. More info on the album below.
Thanks, and hope to see you Sunday! It should be running promptly and wrapping up early-ish, for those of you wary of Sunday night outings.
Cheers,
JK
Recorded pre-pandemic but evoking its rollercoaster moods - tentative calm, nervous anxiety, claustrophobia, and confusion giving way to moments of excited release - "Apposite Rejoinder" is the debut release from the duo of Graham Stephenson and Jesse Kudler. Long-time free improvisers and staples of their respective Chicago and Philadelphia musical communities, Stephenson and Kudler bring their distinctive approaches together for the first time in the studio. Stephenson plays amplified trumpet, close-mic'd to reveal a wealth of interior detail derived from circular breathing and other extended techniques. Kudler performs in stereo on guitar, radios, transmitters, tapes, and electronics.
"Apposite Rejoinder" was improvised live to multi-track in two sessions before being carefully mixed and edited by Kudler for maximum hi-fi impact. A world of layered and shifting spaces is revealed from the sundry amplification techniques at hand: a microphone close on the trumpet's piping, the pickups of electric guitar, contact and cassette recorder microphones, and live room sampling on tape.
At a moment of renewed appreciation for in-person group activities and live collaboration, "Apposite Rejoinder" is a thrilling reminder of the possibilities of collective free improvisation. Carefully-honed voices join to create a unique music, where individual contributions are frequently impossible to distinguish within rushes of noisy energy.
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Graham Stephenson uses amplification to bring interior aspects of the trumpet to the fore. Through the use of highly pressurized breath, valve rotation, and extreme embouchure, the instrument becomes an unpitched sound generator adaptable to improvised settings combining acoustic and electronic sound palettes. He was initially influenced by Greg Kelley and has performed with Zoots Houston, Carol Genetti, Fred Lonberg-Holm, claire rousay, Jason Stein, Richard Kamerman, and others. Recordings are available on Erstwhile Records, Pilgrim Talk, and Hideous Replica.
Jesse Kudler is a musician, composer, performer, and sound artist working in improvisation, collaboration, and site-specificity to examine authorship, intention, agency, ambiguous affects, and modes and practices of listening. He uses guitar, electronics, recordings, keyboards, synthesizers, radios, tapes, movement, and text.
Kudler lives in Philadelphia, PA. Current projects include solo acoustic guitar improvisation, solo church organ performance, and performance duo with dancer Christina Gesualdi. Kudler has also performed with Tim Albro, Ian Fraser, Chandan Narayan, Matt Bauder, Kyle Bruckmann, Chris Cogburn, James Coleman, Tim Feeney, Brent Gutzeit, Bonnie Jones, Jason Kahn, Mazen Kerbaj, Matt Mitchell, Toshimaru Nakamura, Pauline Oliveros, Bhob Rainey, Vic Rawlings, Christine Sehnaoui, Mike Shiflet, Jason Soliday, Howard Stelzer, Christian Weber, Matt Weston, Jack Wright, Jason Zeh, and many others.
JMY81
Limited edition of 200 CDR in digipak
released April 1, 2022
Jesse Kudler: guitar, electronics, radios, tapes
Graham Stephenson: amplified trumpet
Recorded and mixed by Jesse Kudler
Photo by Graham Stephenson
Mastered by Bill Harris
"Apposite Rejoinder" was improvised live to multi-track in two sessions before being carefully mixed and edited by Kudler for maximum hi-fi impact. A world of layered and shifting spaces is revealed from the sundry amplification techniques at hand: a microphone close on the trumpet's piping, the pickups of electric guitar, contact and cassette recorder microphones, and live room sampling on tape.
At a moment of renewed appreciation for in-person group activities and live collaboration, "Apposite Rejoinder" is a thrilling reminder of the possibilities of collective free improvisation. Carefully-honed voices join to create a unique music, where individual contributions are frequently impossible to distinguish within rushes of noisy energy.
***
Graham Stephenson uses amplification to bring interior aspects of the trumpet to the fore. Through the use of highly pressurized breath, valve rotation, and extreme embouchure, the instrument becomes an unpitched sound generator adaptable to improvised settings combining acoustic and electronic sound palettes. He was initially influenced by Greg Kelley and has performed with Zoots Houston, Carol Genetti, Fred Lonberg-Holm, claire rousay, Jason Stein, Richard Kamerman, and others. Recordings are available on Erstwhile Records, Pilgrim Talk, and Hideous Replica.
Jesse Kudler is a musician, composer, performer, and sound artist working in improvisation, collaboration, and site-specificity to examine authorship, intention, agency, ambiguous affects, and modes and practices of listening. He uses guitar, electronics, recordings, keyboards, synthesizers, radios, tapes, movement, and text.
Kudler lives in Philadelphia, PA. Current projects include solo acoustic guitar improvisation, solo church organ performance, and performance duo with dancer Christina Gesualdi. Kudler has also performed with Tim Albro, Ian Fraser, Chandan Narayan, Matt Bauder, Kyle Bruckmann, Chris Cogburn, James Coleman, Tim Feeney, Brent Gutzeit, Bonnie Jones, Jason Kahn, Mazen Kerbaj, Matt Mitchell, Toshimaru Nakamura, Pauline Oliveros, Bhob Rainey, Vic Rawlings, Christine Sehnaoui, Mike Shiflet, Jason Soliday, Howard Stelzer, Christian Weber, Matt Weston, Jack Wright, Jason Zeh, and many others.
JMY81
Limited edition of 200 CDR in digipak
released April 1, 2022
Jesse Kudler: guitar, electronics, radios, tapes
Graham Stephenson: amplified trumpet
Recorded and mixed by Jesse Kudler
Photo by Graham Stephenson
Mastered by Bill Harris
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