Adnan Marquez-Borbon - ProfilesArchive

About Me

I like to toot my horn and...(official version) I am a Mexican saxophonist and composer active in both California and Baja California with numerous groups. His music focuses on improvisation and electroacoustic sound manipulation. Influenced by jazz, classical music, free improvisation, electronica, and traditional musics, his improvisations and compositions synthesize these elements into a unique personal style. He has participated in numerous projects with members of the Trummerflora Collective, the Spectrum Saxophone Quartet, and the Mexican Improvisation Collective Generacion Espontanea. His current proyect with guitarist Greg Gibson, Birthdays and Funerals, is an attempt to bring seamlessly together live improvisation with both computers and live instruments. He is currently pursuing a master's degree in Music, Science, and Technology (MA/MST) from Stanford University.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 10/19/2006
Band Website: ccrma.stanford.edu/~adnanm
Band Members: Adnan Marquez-Borbon, saxophone + electronics
Influences: Many people (musicians and non-musicians) and many cultures (musical and non-musical) have influenced me and what I do. I guess that it doesn't matter how many big names you drop when your music sucks. But I'll cite some of them anyway...
Sounds Like: monkeys with their asses on fire (Charles Neal, 2006) + an orchestra dropped in a meat grinder (Jennie Marion, 2007)... and according to Ramon del Buey (2007) "the poor man's Evan Parker"
Record Label: Circumvention Music
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Woo hoo! and summer stuff

Updates:1. New project- Recorded 2 new tracks with some great people(easyE, elJefe, loFy, kSwen). Result: noisy, loud, and beatiful. Potential EP/LP. 1:04:00 of pure awesomeness.2. For the next 2 week...
Posted by Adnan Marquez-Borbon on Thu, 10 Jul 2008 08:06:00 PST

I AM THE MASTER NOW!!

Yup, just like the title says. I am now a master of whatever I do, somewhat. Cheers!...(passing out now)
Posted by Adnan Marquez-Borbon on Mon, 16 Jun 2008 08:33:00 PST

New toys! UPDATE

Check this out, I got a new set of toys:http://ccrma.stanford.edu/~adnanm/220c/Enjoy!Oh yeah! got a new tune online. (V)ocal Study 3 is finally here! Enjoy some more stuff.Check out that website I li...
Posted by Adnan Marquez-Borbon on Fri, 30 May 2008 12:32:00 PST

New news

Aside from being sick these last couple of days, I'm pretty excited in informing you that my latest work "cuatro" for string quartet and tape was premiered this week. Woo hoo! The first performance wa...
Posted by Adnan Marquez-Borbon on Fri, 09 May 2008 10:39:00 PST

update - luver.com

There's some new stuff from my live set (03/30/08) @ luver.com sunday night broadcast.Here are the goodies:Adnan Marquez-BorbonListen to Adnan's performance here: http://www.luver.net/podcasts/adnan-m...
Posted by Adnan Marquez-Borbon on Sun, 20 Apr 2008 01:12:00 PST

Frank Moore for President!

Last night’s radio broadcast was a blast! I haven’t had that much fun in a while. It was truly an amazing experience. Thanks to those few brave souls who tuned in and punished their ears ...
Posted by Adnan Marquez-Borbon on Mon, 31 Mar 2008 02:29:00 PST

Live webcast

Great news!!! Tomorrow night I’m doing a 2+ hour live pod/webcast performance and I believe it will be later broadcasted on some local cable network! I’ll be doing my noisy thing and whate...
Posted by Adnan Marquez-Borbon on Sun, 30 Mar 2008 08:19:00 PST

break-in stuff

So...it’s time for me to blurt again...blurt!!! I’m finally on break from school and I’m ready to sleep for a couple of days. Crazyness everywhere and need to rest a bit from it. A...
Posted by Adnan Marquez-Borbon on Fri, 21 Mar 2008 10:58:00 PST

Once again

Updates:1. New piece "VACk" up on the media player. Details: algorithmic composition using the wonderful program ChucK. 2. Still looking for a second piece to upload3. New link added (my CCRMA homepa...
Posted by Adnan Marquez-Borbon on Sun, 10 Feb 2008 04:29:00 PST

neu!

New toon up now! See, I kept my promise or resolution. AdnanPs... it's "ocho"
Posted by Adnan Marquez-Borbon on Mon, 14 Jan 2008 07:02:00 PST