Things Fall Apart

Voice, percussion, electronics.

Composed and published 2013 as cd by Herbal International / Kuala Lumpur

https://herbalinternational.blogspot.com/2018/12/1302-jason-kahn-things-fall-apart.html

Things Fall Apart

Voice and Sky

"Berliner"

Performed and recorded September 23, 2013
Errant Bodies Project Space
Berlin, Germany

Jason Kahn // composition, drum set
Johnny Chang // violin
Bryan Eubanks // saxophone, electronics
Richard Kamerman // electronics, objects
Rishin Singh // trombone

Berliner (2013)

"Orgone"

Recorded April 27, 2014
Nantes, France

Jason Kahn // composition, percussion

Orgone Percussion Ensemble:
Marjorie André
Thomas Boudghassem
Charles Dubois
Julien Grosjean
Gabriel Jogel
Julien Ottavi
Romain Papion
Nathalie Plantín
Florian Tositti

Orgone (2014)

"Timelines"

Recorded 2004 in Zürich, Switzerland.

Jason Kahn: composition, analog synthesizer
Tomas Korber: guitar, electronics
Norbert Möslang: cracked everyday electronics
Günter Müller: mini disc, ipod, electronics
Steinbrüchel: laptop
Christian Weber: contrabass

Timelines (2005)

"Timelines New York"

Composed and recorded May 15, 2007 at Issue Project Room, Brooklyn, New York.

Jason Kahn // composition, live mix
Tomas Korber // guitar, electronics
Norbert Möslang // cracked everyday electronics
Günter Müller // ipod's, electronics
Christian Weber // contrabass
Tim Barnes // percussion

Timelines New York

"Sin Asunto"

Jason Kahn // composition, percussion, electronics
Vincent Millioud // violin
Christian Weber // contrabass
Bo Wiget // cello

Composed and published 2009 as CD, Creative Sources / Lisbon

Sin Asunto

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.

Recorded for Cartopodes / Episode 3: Eclosions
https://topophoniques.ch/cartopodes

Recorded June 11, 2021 in Zürich.

Bullingerhof 4.25

Excerpt from a track on the upcoming CD "Lacunae" to be released on a wave press.

13.5.21 (excerpt)

Latvian Classical Radio (excerpt)

Recorded from my balcony, New Year's Eve 2021-2022, Zürich.

Silvester 2021

"I Can't Stop This Feeling"

Voice, drums, field recordings.
Composed July – August, 2015 

Published by Lateral Addition
https://www.lateraladdition.org/?page=3#22

I Cant Stop This Feeling

6 Mornings

5 We Fall

4 Message For

3 Dreaming Of

2 Im Raum

1 Catcher

Orgone

Berliner

The City Never Sleeps

From the forthcoming Book / CD  publication "Soundings"

Flags In Wind Bei Quaibrücke

Jason Kahn // voice, 12-string guitar

Recorded April 21, 2019 at the hammami Surat in Sulaymaniyah, Southern Kurdistan, Iraq as part of the Space21 Exhibition.

Suleymaniya (2019)

Jason Kahn // voice, guitar

Recorded June 19, 2019 Zürich

Nearly You (2019)

Between Hoher Kasten And Staubern

Near Staubern

Near Hoher Kasten

Cemetary Outside Pfarrkirche St. Mauritius

Outside Pfarrkirche St. Mauritius, Town Of Appenzell

"Across Time"

Technique: speakers, media player

Space 21
April 20-21, 2019 Hammami Mofti, Slemani, Kurdistan, Iraq
April 23-24, 2019 Citadel Cultural Centre, Erbil, Kurdistan, Iraq

http://space21.nu


For this piece from April 13-19 I interviewed thirty-three people the Kurdish city of Slemani about their formative childhood sound memories. I spoke with artists, students, teachers and common working people. These interviews were answered in Kurdish and the questions posed in English with a Kurdish translator present. Along with these interviews I made recordings during long walks around the city of Slemani. The final piece conisted of recordings of the interviews and the recordings around Slemani, played back over two speakers in the Hammami Mofti in Slemani and Citadel Cultural Centre in Erbil.

The following people were interviewed: Zhiwar Abdulaadir, Sara Salia, Rezhan Abdullah, Shler Ali, Lareen Aram, Luduc Azad, Meer Baban, Rwa Fakhraden, Sivar Jalal, Sanger Abdulah Kareem, Hazha Khalid , Hardi Kurda, Kardo Mahdy, Shnyar Mahmud, Masfan Maviwan, Dana Mhamad, Nazhad Mhamad, Mastom Mohammed, Bawan Nawshirwan, Hozyar Nwry, Avin Osman, Sherwan Propro, Biyar Rashid, Shangar Rauf, Rokhosh Rawoof, Hazhan Salam, Niga Salam, Sana Saman, Shaw Shawkab, Bzwhen Suly, Diyaako Xaton, Aryan Yaseeh.

Across Time

Unheard Delhi

Electroacoustic composition for voice, field recordings.

Composed and recorded in Delhi, India November 1-30, 2010
Published 2011 online, Wolf Notes / London

Unheard Delhi

Excerpt from a new Editions book+cd release: Infinity Suite

Available at:
http://jasonkahn.net/editions/catalog/infinity_suite.html

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

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

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

Infinity Suite

Jason Kahn // voice
Ilia Belorukov // electonics

Recorded in Zürich, March 1, 2019 by Jason Kahn.
Mixed and mastered by Ilia Belorukov.

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From the LP:

Jason Kahn / Christian Wolfarth
"Spirits"
(2020)
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.

Recording, mixing, mastering, liner notes and LP artwork Jason Kahn.

Spirits // Side A

Spirits // Side B

Excerpt from side A of the Editions LP "Spirits"

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.

Recorded December 22, 2019 in Zürich at Kunstraum Walcheturm.

Recording, mixing, mastering, liner notes and LP artwork Jason Kahn.

Available for purchase at: http://jasonkahn.net/editions/catalog/spirits.html

2020
Editions 009

Spirits // Excerpt Side A

Infinity Suite (excerpt)

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

Recorded by Jason Kahn on February 2, 2019 in Bangalore at 
The Courtyard.
Mixed and mastered by Norbert Möslang.

Bangalore Side 2

MKM // Bangalore

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

Mikroton Records LP 92

Recorded by Jason Kahn on February 2, 2019 in Bangalore at The Courtyard
Mixed and mastered by Norbert Möslang
Lacquer cut at Dubplates & Mastering
Photos by Barbara Hediger and Günter Müller
Liner notes by Jason Kahn
Executive producer: Kurt Liedwart
Graphic design: SETKA design

MKM // Don't Eat

from the new double LP
Days Falling

Editions 011

Jason Kahn // voice, acoustic guitar

Recorded April 9, 2020 in Kunstraum Walcheturm, Zürich.

Available as double LP at 
http://jasonkahn.net/editions/catalog/days_falling.html

or digital at
https://jasonkahn.bandcamp.com/album/days-falling

Far In Mind

"St. Gingolph" from the new CD "Paratopia"

Jason Kahn // voice
Antoine Läng // voice, megaphones

St-Gingolph, Recorded July 5, 2020 in concert at the Leman Architecture Connexion, St Gingolph, Switzerland.

Antoine Läng and Jason Kahn have been working together since 2016. Paratopia is their first release. They have performed throughout Switzerland in projects of improvised and composed music.
The title Paratopia takes its definition from ancient Greek: topos is a kind of place and para something beside or resembling that place. 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.
"St. Gingolph" documents a performance in the forest near St. Gingolph, a small Swiss town situated just before the French border on the shores of Lac Léman. Referencing not just the immediate sound environment of birds and wind blowing through the trees, their voices also recall the Swiss tradition of the Alpsegen, which has been used for centuries by Swiss Alpen farmers and shepherds as both a call to prayer and a kind of chant demarcating their living space for as far as their voices will carry.
"Genève" presents Läng and Kahn in a more traditional concert setting. Rather than work with the sounds of nature, they bring here their voices to investigate that place between listener and performer, using the tension and suspense of the concert situation as material for their extended improvisation. What kind of place can they inhabit beside the sounds? How can they create new places through voice and gesture? These are just some of the questions Läng and Kahn hope to raise for the listener as well as themselves.

Paratopia // St. Gingolph

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