My first tabla recital has come and gone, and I wanted to post my short solo. It was fun to get out there and play, and the crowd was generous and supportive. Afterwards I had the extreme pleasure of hearing Ustad Shahid Parvez Khan play an incredible concert with my tabla instructor Hindole Majumdar. What a great evening.
Click on the thumbnail for the tabla solo:
Some great shots of MiLO by Paul Mitchell (website). Pictured are: Christopher Burns, David Collins, Adam Murphy, Elliot Patros, Kevin Schlei, Steve Schlei, Jim Schoenecker, Amanda Schoofs, Seth Warren-Crow.
Next Wednesday Night, August 29, I’ll be joining some excellent musicians to perform music by Christopher Burns. The show will feature some heavy improvisation with formal instruction. We had a rehearsal last night, and all I can say is that the pieces are a blast to perform. The lineup:
David Collins, sax
Adam Murphy, clarinet
Trevor Saint, percussion
Kevin Schlei, percussion
Amanda Schoofs, voice
Seth Warren-Crow, drums
Wednesday, August 29
8:00 pm
Borg Ward Gallery
823 W. National Ave.
From ‘An Evening with Hindole Majumdar and Kevin Schlei,’ here is a short improvisation called Idiom.
Idiom from Kevin Schlei on Vimeo.
On Sunday, August 19th I will be joined by Hindole Majumdar for an eclectic evening of Classical Indian Percussion and live electronics. Hindole will bring his tabla expertise to Milwuakee, and I will be performing on my own custom instruments (primarily TC-11). There will be solo works and duets featured on the concert.
Come see the collision of two musical styles in an exciting evening of percussion and electronics. Maestro Hindole Majumdar brings Indian classical percussion to Milwaukee with his tabla mastery, and UWM’s own Kevin Schlei presents his cutting edge work on live electronic synthesis.
Sunday, Aug. 19 – 7:30pm
PSOA Music Building
Recital Hall MUS 175
$12 general / $10 student / $5 PSOA student
Tonight at the Sugar Maple MiLO will be performing a full set of improvisations. This time, the show will feature small sets of player ‘sub-groups.’ The mixture of sound sources and styles will be a sonic grab bag – come check it out!
The lineup:
Christopher Burns – electric guitar
David Collins – saxophone, electronics
Adam Murphy – iPad (using Kevin Schlei’s TC-11 software)
Elliot Patros – laptop
Kevin Schlei – tabla, laptop
Steve Schlei – iPad (TC-11)
Jim Schoenecker – Nord modular
Amanda Schoofs – voice, electronics
Seth Warren-Crow – tabla, electronics
More info over at the MiLO tumblr: http://milo-ensemble.tumblr.com/
This Saturday Seth Warren-Crow and I are performing at the Borg Ward Collective. It will be a night of electronic music, live video, tabla improvisation, and more. Seth and I will be joined by Trees Fall, the Milwaukee electronic music and video gurus. It should be a fantastic evening! The show starts at 8:00.
On Saturday April 21st the Milwaukee Laptop Orchestra (MiLO) will performed during the Kenilworth Open Studios, a collection of exhibitions from all areas of the Peck School of the Arts. MiLO played a live realization of Ligeti’s Artikulation, my structured improvisation Collision, and electro-acoustic improvisations.
MiLO is: Chris Burns, David Collins, Nolan Dargiewicz, Adam Murphy, Elliot Patros, Kevin Schlei, Steve Schlei, Amanda Schoofs, Sebastian Valenzuela.
For more information about MiLO, check out the new MiLO tumblr. You can also listen to the full performance on MiLO’s SoundCloud page.
Here are a few shots from the event:
If your in the Milwaukee area, come join the new TC-11 ensemble and users group TORCH: the TC-11 Orchestra. The group is an outlet for compositions and performances that use TC-11, where players can bring patches for the group to perform together. It is a great opportunity to get out and play with other like-minded users.
Meetings will be on Sundays, starting April 29th at 2:00. The meeting location is the UWM PSOA Arts Building on Kenilworth and Prospect Ave. Email me at kevinschlei@gmail.com beforehand so we know you are coming, and we look forward to seeing you there!
A paper of mine detailing the design of TC-11 has been accepted into the New Interfaces for Musical Expression conference (NIME 2012). The conference will be held in Ann Arbor, MI, and I’ll be going to present and demo the instrument. Once the proceedings are online, I will link to the paper here (along with other neat research from the conference).
From the conference site:
The NIME conference brings together researchers and practitioners from a range of academic fields including computer science, electrical engineering, human-computer interaction, musicology, electro-acoustic music, dance and composition, and has routinely attracted interest from electronic music industry as well.
This year NIME will be held at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Ann Arbor has a long tradition on electro-acoustic music having been the location of pioneering early work by Gordon Mumma, Robert Ashley, David Tudor, Alvin Lucier, and David Behrman. It has just celebrated the 25th anniversary of the Performance Art Technology program, is the location of numerous electronic music groups such as Steve Rush’s Digital Music Ensemble and more recently Georg Essl’s Michigan Mobile Phone Ensemble. University of Michigan hosted the International Computer Music Conference in 1998.