Spectrometry Etude #1

Realized 29 July 2014. Kool Maudit rests comfortably in the margins, patiently awaiting his long-threatened return...

Telemetry Maudit

Hydrochloric Love Cry

Wormhole Photobomb

Swords of the No School, aka S.O.N.S., realized during the classic Jersey City sessions, ca. 2007. James Keepnews & DJ Billy Slang, improvising one more slice of badass.

Samurai Pussy Fever

Daniel Carter - tenor saxophone; Kool Maudit - guitar, processing; Billy Slang - beats

Daniel Carter vs. S.O.N.S.

Plan B from Outer Space

Joe McPhee: winds/brass
James Keepnews: electric guitar/laptop
Dave Berger: drums

Recorded December 2015, Cassandra Studio Recording, Beacon, NY 
From the forthcoming Plan B from Outer Space debut release.

Plan B from Outer Space: The Invasion Suite, Part 5 -- Aftermath

Real-time, instant composition programmed in Max and realized for piano samples in Ableton Live.

The Dialogic Imagination

Noble Metal Quartet is: Eric Archer — tabla; Daniel Blair Frankhuizen — cello/laptop; Michael Kadnar — drums/percussion; James Keepnews — guitar/laptop. Improvised on May 23, 2017 at Cassandra Studio Recording, Beacon, NY. Recorded by Rob Kissner.

Noble Metal Quartet — Six Ratios Of Misprision

Composed and recorded at KM HQ, Beacon, NY, Summer 2018
Part of the Family of Woodstock benefit CD curated and produced by Nicola Stemmer

Kool Maudit — Lossless Tentaculoid Repression

James Keepnews is a musician, writer, multimedia developer and performance artist. He received a B.A. in English from Hamilton College and an M.F.A. in Electronic Art from Rensselaer Polytechnic institute. As a musician and composer, he has performed and/or recorded with such artists as Joe McPhee, George Lewis, William Parker, Daniel Carter, Kidd Jordan, Roy Campbell, Tony Malaby, Hamid Drake, Jason Kao Hwang's Spontaneous River, Ras Moshe, Matt Lavelle, Holland Hopson, The New York Chapter of Crafty Guitarists, Chapter Two, The New York Guitar Project, Brown Cuts Neighbors, Blown Woofer and Lick the President. His writing has appeared in Chronogram, the New Haven Advocate, Bass Guitar, Fairfield Weekly, Metroland, The Squid's Ear and Reign of Toads. He lives in Poughkeepsie, NY.

James Keepnews

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