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Kyle Brenders

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About Me

Kyle Brenders is a young Canadian composer and saxophonist. His compositions are boundless, containing a broad range of idiomatic allusions. As a saxophonist, Kyle is comfortable in all forms of musical experiences ranging from solo improvised works to large ensemble compositions. His current compositional output explores the interaction of intentionality and surprise, the liminality of notation and improvisation, and the experience of duration. He has studied composition and improvisation with Peter Hatch, David Mott, Malcolm Goldstein, Jean Derome, Alvin Lucier, Ron Kuivila and Anthony Braxton. He is currently completing his Masters in Experimental Music and Composition at Wesleyan University. Kyle attended the inaugural Vancouver Creative Music Institute where he worked with George Lewis, Francois Houle, Miya Masaoka, Evan Parker, Mark Dresser, Nicole Mitchell, and Giorgio Magnanensi. He has performed with Guillermo Gregorio, The Anthony Braxton Sextet, and Alvin Lucier. Kyle has had pieces performed by the FLUX quartet, The BSC, sfSound and the Windsor and Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony. He has performed in the Vancouver Jazz Festival, the Winnipeg Jazz Festival, the Open Ears Festival of Music and Sound, the Guelph Jazz Festival, and with NUMUS concerts. Kyle is an active member of the Association of Improvising Musicians, Toronto (AIMT). //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// /////////////////////////////////////////////I have just self released my first CD. A solo saxophone album called Flows and Intensities. you can listen to some of the tracks here: kbrenders.web.wesleyan.edu and you can buy it by emailing [email protected]. each album is $15 including shipping anywhere within north america (it will cost a little more to go overseas). I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4

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Member Since: 11/13/2005
Band Website: kbrenders.web.wesleyan.edu
Influences: Anthony Braxton, David Mott, John Coltrane, Thelonius Monk, Steve Lacy, Evan Parker, Peter Hatch, Tobias Delius, George Lewis, Barry Guy, Sun Ra, Derek Bailey, Malcolm Goldstein, Christian Wolff, Duke Ellington, Jean Derome, Ornette Coleman, John Gilmore, Rene Lussier, Anton Webern, iannis Xenakis, Sonic Youth, Pauline Oliveros, Rolando Alphonso, John Cage, Ben Webster, John Zorn, Herbie Nichols, Ab Baars, Charlie Rouse, Misha Mengelberg, Terry Riley, Peter Brotzman, Alvin Lucier, Han Bennink, Chris Murray, Desmond Decker, Conlon Nancarrow, Don Cherry, Roswell Rudd, Eric Dolphy, Roscoe Mitchell, Muhal Richard Abrams, Trevor Watts, Mats Gustafson, Sidney Bechet, Yoshi Wada, Luciano Berio, Ryo Noda, Nam June Paik, Albert Ayler, Hamid Drake, Michael Moore, Lee Konitz, Warne Marsh, John Lurie, Paul Rutherford, Talking Heads, Don Drummond, Sonny Rollins, Morton Feldman, Earle Brown, and most importantly my peers (thank you all)
Sounds Like: All of the above...
Type of Label: None

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New Music

New music is all from the new composition follow line flow line follow. (each group performs selections from the fifty page score) DuoAnne Rhodes-VoiceKyle Brenders-Soprano SaxophoneQuartetEric Paul-A...
Posted by Kyle Brenders on Wed, 04 Apr 2007 10:18:00 PST