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Jason Kahn
Every Hand Is Lunatic That Travels on the Moon
Editions 017
CD+digital

Recorded December 18, 2023 in Zürich.
Recording, mix, mastering and cover design by Jason Kahn.

Tainan 3.9.23
Planetary Listening
cassette

Jason Kahn // guitar

Released on Planetary Listening's "Swamps & Stars" compilation cassette.
Recorded September 3, 2023 in Tainan, Taiwan at the Ting Shuo Hear Say artist residency.

Other artists on the cassette: Daniela Medina Poch, Ally Bisshop, Adriana Knou, Felicity Mangan, Peter Strickmann, Ela Spalding, KMRU, Carla Boregas, Miya Toshida, Samuel Hertz, Monaí de Paula Antunes, Marcela Moraga, Daniela de Paulis, Izhak David.

planetarylistening.net
tingshuostudio.org

Time Between
Ftarri
CD + digital

Jason Kahn // electronics
Katsura Yamauchi // saxophone

Terminal Analog
Room 40
digital

Jason Kahn // electronics
Dave Brown // tenor guitar

Recorded October 17-19, 2023 in Melbourne by Jason Kahn.
Mix and cover art by Jason Kahn.
Mastered by Lawrence English at Negative Space.

I Smile When the Sound Is Singing Through the Space
Editions 017
CD+digital

Jason Kahn // voice, modular synth, mixing board, electromagnetic
transducers, radio, spring reverb tank

Edition of 100
Factory pressed CD
Hand-painted covers on thick gray cardboard

Recorded December 18, 2023 in Zürich.
Recording, mix, mastering and cover design by Jason Kahn.

Tetracosa Ensemble, Volumes 1​-​4

Mike Shiflet // composition

With Jason Kahn, Mathieu Ruhlmann, Zhu Wenbo, Anla Courtis, Marina Peterson, Crank Sturgeon, Andrew Weathers, Michael Tolan, Dave Phillips, Roel Meelkop, Brent Gutzeit, Rutger Zuydervelt, Jeremy Purser, J. Soliday, Francisco López, Retribution Body, Seth Cluett, Cody Yantis, Andrew Tuttle, FREEBASS, Bonnie Han Jones, Leslie Keffer, Tim Olive, Paul Rentler, Katsura Mouri, Caleb Miller, Joe Panzner, Carl Ritger, Jeph Jerman, Bill Nace, Howard Stelzer, HeadBoggle, Nathan McLaughlin, Jonny Butler, T.J. Borden, Envenomist, Rafael Toral, Das Synthetische Mischgewebe, Noisteria Emission, Lea Bertucci, Sam Craighead, Deforma, Marc Richter, Staubitz and Waterhouse, Michael Pisaro-Liu, Dominic Coppola, C. Vadi, Daniel Menche, Lasse Marhaug, Patrick Carey, Phil Julian, Grisha Shakhnes, Hallock Hill, Bryan Eubanks, Ty Owen, Jim Haynes, Carlos Pozo, Greenhouse, Joe Colley, Yan Jun, Aaron Martin, Failsafe!, Marcia Bassett, Brad Rose, Guy Birkin, Brian Werstler, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Brendan Murray, Jon Mueller, Shedding, Charles Barabé, André Foisy, Brian Harnetty, Murderous Vision, The Rita, Raymond Cummings, Thaniel Ion Lee, Fred Thomas, Modelbau, Aaron Rosenblum, Phil Maguire, Mike Bullock, Toshimaru Nakamura, Leah P, Thomas Dimuzio, Eric Hardiman, Maja S. K. Ratkje, Maria Chavez & Jordi Wheeler, Gabriel Beam, W. T. Nelson, Michael Hartman, Neil Jendon, Carlos Giffoni, Ryan Jewell, John Wiese, Attorneys General, Choi Joonyong, Paul Watson, Paul Haney, Gerritt Wittmer, Eoin Bell-Games, Liam Weikart, Giant Claw, Peter J Woods , Yann Novak, Eve Essex, Vic Rawlings, Larry Marotta, Francisco Meirino, Michael Kimaid, Stephen Cornford, Abhilasha Chebolu, Jeff Central, Michael R. Bernstein, John Also Bennett, John Kolodij, Ian Epps, Goh Lee Kwang, Greg Kelley, Jeff Barsky, Developer, Fenian, Karen Constance, Alex Paquet, Mykel Boyd

Eternal City
Editions 015
CD+digital

Jason Kahn // electronics
Ulrich Krieger // tenor saxophone, contrabass clarinet, krummhorn

Edition of 200
Factory pressed CD
Hand-painted covers on thick gray cardboard

Recorded by Ulrich Krieger on May 24, 2022 in Los Angeles.
Mix, mastering and cover design by Jason Kahn.

Three pieces spanning free improvisation, noise and extended saxophone technique by long-time collaborators Jason Kahn and Ulrich Krieger.

New book + cd out:

Jason Kahn
All along the Way
Editions 014
paperback book + cd

15x14 cm
370 pages
CD duration 55.01
ISBN 978-3-033-09958-6

All Along the Way chronicles a concert tour through the United States and Canada from May 5 to June 30, 2022. The book explores the state of the DIY experimental music scenes just as these countries began to hold shows again after the Covid pandemic.

Written after the tour, these diaristic accounts offer a ground-level view of Kahn's travels, as he drives his way alone around North America in a series of thirty-seven solo concerts played in bars, clubs, arts spaces, galleries, museums, book stores, diners, basements, record stores, churches, people's living rooms and Fraternal Order of Eagles lodges.

Purchase here:
https://jasonkahn.net/editions/catalog/all_along_the_way.html

Live at Hundred Years Gallery
Soundholes Live Edition 020
Cassette+digital

Jason Kahn // electronics
Colin Webster // saxophone

Recorded by Andrew Lisle 29 October 2021. London. UK .

The Foot of the Sky
Personal Archives 212
Cassette+digital

Jason Kahn // electronics
Gretchen Korsmo // electric piano
AF Jones // guitar, steel guitar, electronics
Andrew Weathers // guitar, electronics

Recorded and Mixed by AW at Wind Tide, Littlefield, TX, May 2022.

Live at Tokyo
@ Tokyo
digital

Jason Kahn // voice, electronics

Recorded November 5, 2023 at Tokyo in Whanganui, New Zealand by Campbell Kneale.

This new piece, On Any Sunday, composed for The Listening Biennal.

Electronics, voice, guitar, field recordings.

https://listeningbiennial.net

A continuation of the In Place project, realized in Valparaiso, Chile
in November 2019 at Encuentro Tsonami.

In Place Valparaiso
Tsonami Ediciones
Valparaiso, Chile
English with Spanish translation
13.5 x 18 cm softcover
184 pages
ISBN : 978-956-09669-3-3

Published with the support of Pro Helvetia.

https://tsonamiediciones.cl

A new text piece of mine, And We’re Still Here, is featured
in this recently published book by Thibault Walther.

Audio Trouble
les presses du réel
13 x 17 cm softcover
272 pages
ISBN : 978-2-37896-283-8

https://lespressesdureel.com

Köln
Editions 013
CD+digital

Jason Kahn // electronics
Frantz Loriot // viola
Christian Wolfarth // percussion

Edition of 200
Factory pressed CD
Hand-painted covers on thick gray cardboard

Recorded in concert on October 21, 2022 at Plattform nicht dokumentierbarer Ereignisse
in Atelier Dürrenfeld/Geitel, Köln, Germany.

Butcher's Wood
Aural Detritus audet010
CD+digital

Jason Kahn // voice
Tim Hodgkinson // clarinet, occasional voice, small percussion
Ken Hyder // voice, dungur, shaman drum, ting-sha small cymbals,rolmo cymbals, small percussion
Paul Khimasia Morgan // feedback, transducers, contact mics, stereo pre-amp, small objects

Recording made by Will Montgomery on October 30, 2021 in Butchers Wood, UK.

Soundings

Radio adaptation of the book Soundings

Framework Radio

Broadcast March 5, 2022
on Resonance FM

Jason Kahn // text, voice, environmental recordings

https://frameworkradio.net
https://resonancefm.com

"Translations"
Potlatch P122
CD

Bertrand Denzler // saxophone
Jason Kahn // electronics

Recorded by Jason Kahn in concert at Tiasci, Paris on December 10, 2021.

Jason Kahn
"Soundings"
(2022)
Editions 012
book+cd

15x14 cm
165 pages
CD duration 69.47
ISBN 978-3-033-09140-5

Text written February 2021 to April 2022.
All recordings made by Jason Kahn February 5 to March 22, 2020 in Zürich.
Realized with the generous support of Stadt Zürich Kultur Covid-Arbeitsstipendium 2022.
More information

Price including post worldwide: 20.00 euros
Including streaming / download code and pdf of the book.

New concert video from Elastic Arts, Chicago. June 15, 2022

New collaboaration with Devin Sarno.

"Lacunae"
A Wave Press awp018
CD

Jason Kahn // modular synthesizer, mixing board, voice, electromagnetic inductor,
piezo microphone, radio, environmental recordings

1. 13.5.21 (29:53)
2. Latvian Classical Radio (20:06)

13.5.21 recorded May 2, 2021 in concert by Philip Tschiemer at Kunstraum Walcheturm, Zürich
Latvian Classical Radio recorded November 1-30, 2020 in studio by Jason Kahn in Zürich

An overview of my work in German, written by Jörg König for the beFREIte MUSIK blog.

https://befreitemusik.de/jasonkahn

New Concert Video
Jason Kahn // electronics
Christian Wolfarth // percussion

November 22, 2022
FIM (Forum für Improvisierte Musik+Tanz)
@ H95 Raum für Kultur
Basel

http://fimbasel.ch

Concert Video
Jason Kahn // electronics
November 13, 2021
Oqbo
Berlin

Video by Christian Bilger

http://oqbo.de

"LISBOA SOA 2016-2020: Sound Art, Ecology and Auditive Culture"

Raquel Castro (Editor)

I have an interview in this book, along with the following artists: Akio Suzuki, Barry Truax, Chris Watson, Hildegard Westerkamp, ​​Jacob Kirkegaard, Jason Kahn , Jez Riley French, Leah Barclay, Luís Cláudio Ribeiro, Mileece and Peter Cusack and texts by Gustavo Costa, Joana Gomes Cardoso, José Sá Fernandes, Ivo Louro and Mikhail Karikis.

https://lisboasoa.com

"Such Music"

radio broadcasat
Resonance FM, London

Hosted by Rihards Endriksons, journalist and artistic director of Latvia's Skaņu Mežs festival.

My voice is used here as the opening jingle.

Jason Kahn, Jon Mueller, Greg Davis
"Green Door"
Autumn Records AR034
CD

Jason Kahn // percussion, electronics
Jon Mueller // percussion, tapes
Greg Davis // percussion, electronics

Price including post to Europe: 12.00 euros

Price including post to rest of the world: 14.00 euros

New concert video
Christian Wolfarth // percussion
Jason Kahn // electronics
Franzt Loriot // viola

September 11, 2021
Schlosserei Nenniger
Zürich

"Plazuela Ecuador"

This is a spanish translation of one chapter, "Plaza Ecuador," from the forthcoming book "In Place Valparaíso." This excerpt was published as part of the exhbition "Museo Sonoro de la Revuelta," which runs from July 3 to September 30 in Parque Cultural de Valparaíso, Chile. This text was originally written as part of the Tsonami Festival 2019, where I was invited to recreate my project "In Place" in the context of the social and political upheaval happening in Chile throughout 2019.

Download "Plaza Ecuador" here.

http://museosonorodelarevuelta.cl

https://www.tsonami.cl

"Muted Stories"

I have one piece on this sampler compiled by Dale Lloyd of and/OAR records. Other artists included are C. Worth, Asher Tuil, Scott Sherk, Loren Chasse, Edward Ruchalski, Lucid, Bruno Duplant, selective listening, Cédric Peyronnet, Martin Kay, Kenneth Kirschner, Olivia Block, John Hudak, Tomoko Sauvage, C. Worth, Guillaume Beauron, Eric Lanzillotta, Loren Chasse and Andrew Deutsch.

https://www.and-oar.org/and_49.html

Bullingerhof 4.25

This piece was recorded for Cartopodes / Episode 3: Eclosions

https://topophoniques.ch/cartopodes/

I started recording the piece at 4.25 in the morning, hence the title. And what I was trying to do was interact with the space through my voice and listening -- a kind of unheard intervention in the roar of the city, which even at this time of the morning is quite loud. I was working to blend my vocalizations with the environment, blurring the boundaries of what was being "performed" by me and what was being happening in the environment. An interaction which had perhaps more to do with listening as much with me making any sounds in reaction to the environment.

Jason Kahn
"Days Falling"
(2021)
Editions 011
Double LP

Jason Kahn // voice, acoustic guitar

Edition of 100
Heavy weight 180 gram vinyl.
Hand-painted covers on thick gray cardboard.
Liner notes.

A. Buried Child (16.06)
B. The Unseen Hand (14.09)
C. Across the Night (5.53)
Far in Mind (8.35)
D. To See That Heaven (15.27)

Recorded April 9, 2020 in Zürich at Kunstraum Walcheturm.
Recording, mixing, mastering, liner notes and LP artwork Jason Kahn.

Price including post to Europe: 30.00 euros
With streaming / download code.

Price including post to rest of the world: 35.00 euros
With streaming / download code.

Concert video
Jason Kahn // electronics

May 2, 2021
Soloreihe
Kunstraum Walcheturm
Zürich

Jason Kahn
"Infinity Suite"
(2020)
Editions 010
book + cd

15x14 cm
60 pages
CD duration 18.06
ISBN 978-3-033-07500-9

A book and composition examining sound and memory in Varanasi.

Composed March-August, 2019 in Zürich.
Source recordings made February 19-24, 2019 in Varanasi.

Price including post to Europe: 15.00 euros
With streaming / download code and pdf of the book.

Price including post to rest of the world: 20.00 euros
With streaming / download code and pdf of the book.

Live Album

Jason Kahn // voice
Ilia Belorukov // modular synthesizer

Fort Evil Fruit cassette FEF107

New cassette release from my collaboration with Ilia Belorukov on modular synthesizer. Documented here are two performances recorded in 2019 in Petersburg and Zürich.

https://fortevilfruit.bandcamp.com/album/live-album

Totality

Cafe Oto download

My voice appears on this new composition from Jean-Luc Guionnet.

Other other voices from:
Daravuth Ly, Nicolas Carrasco, Elizabeth Saint Jalmes, Joe Colley, Aitor Izagirre, Ada Diaconescu, Patrick Guionnet, Houssam El Bokeili, Mattin, Ingrid Schmoliner, Seymour Wright, Klaus Filip, Naomi Verdon, Samo Kutin, Luke Fowler, Marcus Schmickler, Vincent Bouchot, Éric Cordier, Caroline Pouzolles, Frantz Loriot, Cyprien Busolini, Sonia Fleurance, Shaul Kohn, Timothée Quost, Tchang Yixin, Sacha Aksin, Ching Ching Cheung, Ray Brassier, Laurent Pascal, Yan Jun, Santiago Gardeazabal, Laszlo Juhasz, Yanik Miossec, Iris Poon, Xabier Erkizia, Christophe Macé, Joel Grip, Pavel Tchikov, Alexander Lau, Thomas Charmetant, Annette Krebs, Jeremy Kennedy, Claire Bergerault, Bertrand Denzler, Andrew Choate, Gaudenz Badrutt, Iban Regnier, Anna Gaïotti, Nicole Khouri, Lou Neva Zlatanova, Emma De Laura, Natasa Serec, Lotus Edde Khouri, Éric La Casa, Gael Leveugle, Taku Unami, Ali Robertson, XperXr, Fredie Decombe, Véronique Rustici, Barry Esson, Martin Michaud, Alessandro Bosetti, Peter Kolovos, Marc Baron, François Durif, Will Guthrie, ClarencePouzolles-Catela, Nadia Bou Ali, Clayton Thomas, Sophie Daull, Nikos Veliotis, Marc Fèvre, Robert Bastien, Rhodri Davis, Stéphane Rives, Neil Davidson, Cristian Alvéar, Luka Zagoričnik, Martin Tétreault, Moussa Sy, Pascal Battus, Seijiro Murayama and Jean-Luc Guionnet.

https://www.cafeoto.co.uk/shop/jean-luc-guionnet-totality/

Paratopia

Jason Kahn // voice
Antoine Läng // voice

Debut CD from Jason Kahn and Antoine Läng. Through their use of the voice, Läng and Kahn explore the idea of place, creating together through their performances a sense of other possible places and questioning the notion of how we define a place. The title Paratopia takes its definition from ancient Greek: topos is a kind of place and para something beside or resembling that place.

Price including post to rest of the world: 14.00 euros

Price including post to Europe: 12.00 euros

luck_down

Jason Kahn // voice, video
Norbert Möslang // electronics, composition

A sound and video collaboration for the "Jazz Chur in Exile" in place of a concert cancelled due to the Corona pandemic.

Bangalore

MKM
Günter Müller // iPods, electronics
Jason Kahn // modular synthesizer, mixer, radio
Norbert Möslang // cracked everyday-electronics

Mikroton 92 LP

Bangalore marks MKM’s fifth release for Mikroton. Recorded in concert on February 2, 2019 in Bangalore during a tour of India, this LP documents the group’s plunge in the ebb and flow of India’s intense energy.

https://toneditions.bandcamp.com/album/bangalore

Jason Kahn // Ilia Belorukov
"Studio Album"

Jason Kahn // voice
Ilia Belorukov // modular synthesizer

Released July 27, 2020
Notice Recordings NTR056
cassette + digital

Recorded 2018 in St. Petersurg.

Price including post to Europe: 12.00 euros

Price including post to rest of the world: 14.00 euros

Jason Kahn / Christian Wolfarth
"Spirits"
Editions 009
LP

Jason Kahn // voice, lap slide resonator guitar
Christian Wolfarth // percussion

Edition of 100
Heavy weight 180 gram vinyl.
Hand-painted covers on thick gray cardboard.
Liner notes.

Side A: Spirits 1 (19.09)
Side B: Spirits 2 (19.43)

Recorded December 22, 2019 in Zürich at Kunstraum Walcheturm.

Price including post to Europe: 25.00 euros
With streaming / download code.

Price including post to rest of the world: 30.00 euros
With streaming / download code.

With streaming / download code.

Star Trap

Arnold Dreyblatt
The Orchestra of Excited Strings

While living in Berlin I was a member of American composer Arnold Dreyblatt's ensemble The Orchestra of Excited Strings from 1994-97, first playing drum set
and later moving to cimbalom. Star Trap includes a concert recording from 1997
in Zürich of Dreylbatt's composition Escalator, with me playing cimbalom.

https://blacktrufflerecords.com

Old and New Ghosts

Jason Kahn // twelve-string Stella acoustic lap slide guitar

Confront Recordings digital release
Available at:
https://confrontrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/old-and-new-ghosts

Recorded at the Werkstatt für improvisierte Musik, Zürich,
11th January 2020. Mixed 12th–15th January 2020.

Joke Lanz / Jason Kahn / Norbert Möslang / Günter Müller / Christian Weber
"kangaroo_kitchen"

Joke Lanz // turntables
Jason Kahn // modular synthesizer, radio, mixer
Norbert Möslang // cracked everyday-electronics
Günter Müller // ipods, electronics
Christian Weber // bass, revolver

mikroton cd 89 | 90
Released October 2019

http://mikroton.net/mikroton-cd-89-90/

Various Artists
"Interactions"

"Nearly You"
Jason Kahn // voice, guitar

Interactions is a project of Incidencias Sonoras: COINCIDENCIA, an experimental music and sound art platform supported by the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia. Compiled by Luis Alvarado, with sleeve art by Marco Papiro, and issued by the Lima based Buh Records, the double CD set highlights the intense activity currently animating the experimental scenes in Zurich, Bern, Geneva, Lausanne, Basel, Biel, Chiasso and Lucerne.

Jason Kahn
"Lining Out"

Jason Kahn // voice, drums

Released May 8, 2019
hiddenbell records 011 LP

Recorded January 13, 2018 in Zürich.

Price including postage: 25.00 euros

 

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