KaiBorg is:

David Borgo
Saxophones/Laptop

Jeff Kaiser
Quartertone Trumpet/Laptop

The performance strategies of KaiBorg encompass the exploratory domains of real-time computer processing and experimental improvisation. The scope of their musical vocabulary creates an intricate web of references and a compelling ensemble voice. KaiBorg employs real-time interactive strategies from jazz and improvised music within the expanded sonic palette and space made possible by the use of live electronics. Our goal is to create hybrid instruments with which we have the same intimate feedback relationship as our traditional acoustic ones. We eschew pre-recorded samples and pre-composed material so that all of the sonic events and forms originate in performance, but we do not shun our relationship to the rich tradition of jazz and African American creative music making. Our performances aim to sonically foreground the cybernetic processes of feedback, interconnection, communication and emergence.

KaiBorg has performed at STEIM (Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music) in Amsterdam and at The University of Göteborg and the Brötznow club in Sweden, at NWEAMO (NorthWest Electro-Acoustic Music Orgnaization) in San Diego, the UC Institute for Research in the Arts "State of the Art" festival in Riverside, at the 2008 International Society for Improvised Music in the Lamont School of Music, University of Denver, Colorado, Palomar College Concert Series, INCUBATOR at UCSD and for the three nights of concerts celebrating the opening of the Conrad Prebys Music Center at UCSD.

David Borgo is a saxophonist, multi-media artist, ethnomusicologist, and Associate Professor of Music at UCSD in the Integrative Studies Program. He has released five CDs and one DVD as a leader, and his book, Sync or Swarm: Improvising Music in a Complex Age, won the Alan P. Merriam Prize from the Society for Ethnomusicology in 2006 as the most distinguished book published during the previous year.

For more information: davidborgo.com

Jeff Kaiser is a trumpet player, multi-media artist and PhD student in the Integrative Studies Program (music) at UCSD. He is the founder and owner of the pfMENTUM and Angry Vegan record labels. Jeff has released numerous albums as leader/co-leader, as well as been a featured performing artist at festivals, universities, clubs and concert halls around the U.S. and abroad.

For more information: jeffkaiser.com