My first tabla recital has come and gone, and I wanted to post my short solo. It was fun to get out there and play, and the crowd was generous and supportive. Afterwards I had the extreme pleasure of hearing Ustad Shahid Parvez Khan play an incredible concert with my tabla instructor Hindole Majumdar. What …
Some great shots of MiLO by Paul Mitchell (website). Pictured are: Christopher Burns, David Collins, Adam Murphy, Elliot Patros, Kevin Schlei, Steve Schlei, Jim Schoenecker, Amanda Schoofs, Seth Warren-Crow.
Next Wednesday Night, August 29, I’ll be joining some excellent musicians to perform music by Christopher Burns. The show will feature some heavy improvisation with formal instruction. We had a rehearsal last night, and all I can say is that the pieces are a blast to perform. The lineup: David Collins, sax Adam Murphy, clarinet …
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From ‘An Evening with Hindole Majumdar and Kevin Schlei,’ here is a short improvisation called Idiom. Idiom from Kevin Schlei on Vimeo.
On Sunday, August 19th I will be joined by Hindole Majumdar for an eclectic evening of Classical Indian Percussion and live electronics. Hindole will bring his tabla expertise to Milwuakee, and I will be performing on my own custom instruments (primarily TC-11). There will be solo works and duets featured on the concert. Come see …
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Tonight at the Sugar Maple MiLO will be performing a full set of improvisations. This time, the show will feature small sets of player ‘sub-groups.’ The mixture of sound sources and styles will be a sonic grab bag – come check it out! The lineup: Christopher Burns – electric guitar David Collins – saxophone, electronics …
This Saturday Seth Warren-Crow and I are performing at the Borg Ward Collective. It will be a night of electronic music, live video, tabla improvisation, and more. Seth and I will be joined by Trees Fall, the Milwaukee electronic music and video gurus. It should be a fantastic evening! The show starts at 8:00.
On Saturday April 21st the Milwaukee Laptop Orchestra (MiLO) will performed during the Kenilworth Open Studios, a collection of exhibitions from all areas of the Peck School of the Arts. MiLO played a live realization of Ligeti’s Artikulation, my structured improvisation Collision, and electro-acoustic improvisations. MiLO is: Chris Burns, David Collins, Nolan Dargiewicz, Adam Murphy, …
If your in the Milwaukee area, come join the new TC-11 ensemble and users group TORCH: the TC-11 Orchestra. The group is an outlet for compositions and performances that use TC-11, where players can bring patches for the group to perform together. It is a great opportunity to get out and play with other like-minded …
A paper of mine detailing the design of TC-11 has been accepted into the New Interfaces for Musical Expression conference (NIME 2012). The conference will be held in Ann Arbor, MI, and I’ll be going to present and demo the instrument. Once the proceedings are online, I will link to the paper here (along with …