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Adventure Club Selections

Various LIVE Solo and Group Performances, Radio Programs, and Interviews recorded 2010 - Present

LIVE Sets

Adventure Club Jukebox

Original - Storm Passes Over Tracks

Modern Explorer

What would happen if Boards of Canada made a glitch album using iPads and free running modular patches? This, probably. A focus on soundtrack-era aesthetics and interesting tangents, rather than an all-out assault on the brain.

Think of it as 15 tracks on a worldwide journey through faceless airports, industry and rurality, ending up at sunrise on a private beach. Lots and lots of atmosphere, intense and aurally challenging at times [but never tear-your-head-off-glitch], melody and atonality. 

Glitch and IDM albums tend to be atonal, hard-to-listen affairs. I hope this comes in at the more aesthetic end of the spectrum! Note that the first two tracks (up to about 8 minutes) are also the two least tonal!

The art of travel - 45 minute glitch ambient mix

a single 200e patch recorded in a single pass then chopped up and layered in logic.  headphones would be a good idea. . . :-) 

Buchla Color Meditation

recorded in chicago, IL in january 2012 
nick zanca - production, guitar, violin, rhodes, paulstretch, laptop, apartment

False Astronomy

http://soundcloud.com/joncates + http://soundcloud.com/jeffkolar

Performed & Recorded LIVE on August 12, 2015 at Defibrillator Gallery in Chicago, USA.
http://dfbrl8r.org/event/ariadne

"0812215" by Jeff Kolar + jonCates [2015]

Sound and radio artist Jeff Kolar (jeffkolar.us) brought strange and wonderful sounds to the studio for the first hour of this show. Kat O'Rly played tunes in the second half. Tracklist is temporarily unavailable due to issues with the station website, but will be added as soon as possible.

Destination Unknown 10-5-15 with special guest Jeff Kolar

Full tracklist: https://i-d.vice.com/en_gb/article/slumber-session-ocoeur

https://soundcloud.com/ocoeur’s sound is one that’s as bold as it is elegant. ‘Au coeur’ simply translates as ‘to the heart’ and the French composer and sound designer has plenty of it. His musical output is a personal insight into his emotions that is laid out with the utmost levels of beauty and we are delighted to welcome him with his debut i-D Slumber Session mix. 

http://i-D.co

Slumber Session: Ocoeur

Chicago Underground Film Festival afterparty
Friday June 3rd, 2016


'JEFF KOLAR is a sound artist, radio producer, and curator. He is the Founder and Artistic Director of Radius, an experimental radio broadcast platform established in 2010. His work, described as “speaker-shredding” (Half Letter Press), “wonderfully strange” (John Corbett), and “characteristically curious” (Marc Weidenbaum), activates sound in unconventional, temporary, and ephemeral ways using appropriation and remix as a critical practice. His solo and collaborative projects, installations, and public performances often investigate the mundane sonic nuances of everyday electronic devices.'


Jeff Kolar – Live Set @ Acre

Opalescent was recorded in 1999 and originally released in 2001.
It has been re-mastered for its first vinyl release this August 2016.

Cold Out There (2016 Vinyl Remaster)

Produced at https://soundcloud.com/skalarsound - Skálar | Sound Art | Experimental Music, East Iceland http://skalar.is/

Performed & Recorded LIVE on October 30, 2016 at LungA School in Seyðisfjörður, Iceland.

"Hangman (Jeff Kolar, Meg T. Noe)" is an adaptation of a centuries-old folk song.

Album Art: "Angel Baby" by Meg T. Noe http://megtnoe.com

"Hangman" by Jeff Kolar and Meg T. Noe [2016]

Recorded by Wave Farm at Fridman Gallery, New York, October 2017.
This durational celebration of the unique 20 years of artistic quality in radio art by our friends at Wave Farm , New York features live performances by twenty co-conspirators and collaborators who represent the span of Wave Farm, from its earliest days as the free103point9 artist collective through to the present day. Participating artists include: 31 Down, Ed Bear, Lea Bertucci, Olivia Bradley-Skill, Damian Catera, Brian Dewan, Anna Friz, Michael Garofalo, Howardian, Tianna Kennedy, Jeff Kolar, Jen Kutler, C Lavender, LoVid, Angel Nevarez & Valerie Tevere, Tom Roe, Stick Sellers, Melissa Weaver, Gregory Whitehead, and Bryan Zimmerman. Limited-edition event poster by Maximilian Goldfarb. "Every Radio Station" installation by Jeff Thompson

More info: https://www.facebook.com/events/124864604803752/
https://wavefarm.org/

Anna Friz | Jeff Kolar | live | Wave Farm 1997-2017: Twenty Performances for Twenty Years

From Insides, 2009. Buy direct from the label here : http://www.dominorecordco.com/uk/albums/26-03-09/insides/

A Drifting Up

The whole soundtrack album is NOW AVAILABLE EVERYWHERE - buy from iTunes or any other good digital store - or direct from the record label here:
http://www.dominorecordco.com/uk/albums/25-11-10/monsters-original-soundtrack/
And read the BBC review here: http://bbc.in/cA8ZHs


Jon Hopkins - Monsters Theme

Off of the album "Pastfinder" on Golden Cloud Tapes.

http://goldencloudtapes.storenvy.com/collections/134465-all-products/products/3289635-gct009-sound-out-light-pastfinder-c40

Sound Out Light - Stations

milton

Jeff Kolar is a composer, sound artist, and founder of Radius, an experimental radio broadcast platform established in 2010. His work has been exhibited internationally at the Smithsonian Museum, Museum of Arts and Design, CTM Festival for Adventurous Music, Radio Revolten Radio Art Festival, and reviewed in The New York Times, The Wire Magazine, Red Bull Music Academy, and more.