Ken Field
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| Ken Field | |
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| Born | January 26, 1953 |
| Instrument(s) | Saxophone, flute, percussion |
| Associated acts | Birdsongs of the Mesozoic, Revolutionary Snake Ensemble |
| Website | http://fieldk.home.att.net/ |
Ken Field (born 1953) is a saxophonist, flautist, percussionist, and composer. Since 1988 he has been a member of the electrified modern music ensemble Birdsongs of the Mesozoic, with whom he has recorded eight CDs.
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[edit] Career
Field has been Composer-in-Residence at the Ucross Foundation, Wyoming, the Fundación Valparaíso, Spain, and the Atlantic Center for the Arts, Florida. He has performed for President Bill Clinton, and with former J. Geils frontman Peter Wolf. Ken Field is a Vandoren Performing Artist.
[edit] Revolutionary Snake Ensemble
Field leads the Revolutionary Snake Ensemble, a New Orleans-inspired improvisational brass band. Year of the Snake, the group's debut release, was included on best-of-year lists from WNYC Radio, the Gambit Weekly, and the Italian station Radio Popolare. The group has performed at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Puffin Cultural Forum, Berklee Performance Center, and numerous other venues, and has been nominated for a Boston Music Award, and several Boston Phoenix/WFNX Best Music Poll awards.
[edit] Discography
- In 2004 he was commissioned by Bridgman/Packer Dance to compose music for the dance prodution Under the Skin. A CD of this music was released in 2006 on Innova Recordings.
- In 2000 Field released Tokyo in F, a live recording of an improvised concert he gave in Tokyo, with three prominent Japanese musicians he met only just before the performance.
- His 1999 release of layered saxophone music, Pictures of Motion, integrates elements of ambient, hiphop, minimalism, swing, acid, improv, and Balkan processional music. The CD includes two of Field's compositions for Sesame Street, and features a guest appearances by saxophonists Jessica Lurie and Amy Denio.
- Field's 1996 debut solo release, Subterranea, documented his multitracked saxophone improvisations, recorded mostly in an underground chamber in Roswell, New Mexico.
Field is also an award-winning composer of music for animation, film, and dance.[citation needed] His music is heard regularly on the popular internationally-broadcast children's television program Sesame Street, in collaboration with his wife, animator Karen Aqua.
[edit] Other work
Field has undertaken residencies and conducted workshops at a number of US universities. He is on the faculty of the Music Maker School, where he teaches saxophone and flute. He also hosts The New Edge, a weekly radio program on WMBR in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and curates and co-directs Cultural Constructions, an intercultural music performance project.
