Jesse Kudler,
born 1979, creates concrete music on the computer,
composes low-tech multi-channel sound works, and
improvises on cheap consumer devices: a no-name electric
guitar, hand-held cassette recorders, radios and
transmitters, various small junk, and
pedals/electronics.
Kudler
attended public school until Wesleyan University, where
he studied music with Ron Kuivila, Alvin Lucier, and a
little bit with Anthony Braxton, among others. He eventually
became active as an organizer and performer in
improvised, experimental, and electronic music, forming
a regular duo with fellow student Jonathan Zorn and
leading the large electronic improvising ensemble Phil
Collins. Kudler
has also worked as a recording engineer for various
projects.
In his
various travels, Kudler has performed with Matt Bauder,
Kyle Bruckmann, Chris Cogburn, James Coleman, Tim
Feeney, Brent Gutzeit, Bonnie Jones, Jason Kahn, Mazen
Kerbaj, 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. He has
toured the United States several times. He performed
as part of the 2010 No Idea Festival, 2008 Dartmouth
Festival of New Musics, and the 2007 Phoneme Festival.
Jesse Kudler
lives in Philadelphia.
Current and "recent" projects include: sound
installation; a duo with Ian Fraser; solo performance;
HZL, an environmental electronics duo with Tim Albro;
duos with Chris Cogburn, Christian Weber, and Chandan
Narayan; Benito Cereno (with Dustin Hurt, Chandan
Narayan, Tim Albro, and Ian Fraser); Tweeter, a
treble-intensive noise trio with Alex Nagle and Eli
Litwin; and various ad hoc groupings. Kudler is the
co-founder and co-Director (with Ian Fraser) of the
Philadelphia Sound Forum.
NB: "Kudler"
rhymes with “muddler.”
Many people refer to him as "the Kud."
Web presence:
www.jessekudler.com
Promotional
material: http://www.jessekudler.com/promo.html