Tuesday, February 4, 2025

Chad M Clark solo guitar at the Jazz Gallery in Milwaukee on January 25, 2025

A few weeks back I was able to catch a triple header of improvised and experimental music at Milwaukee's venerable Jazz Gallery. The final performance for that evening was guitarist Chad M Clark improvising on guitar in front of a video projection by Chicago avantgarde vocalist Carol Genetti


The 22-minute set was inventive and highly textured. It went by too quickly -- I'm looking forward to catching him later in the month at Woodland Pattern with keyboardist James Baker.

Chad's website bio does an excellent job of summarizing his approach to music and his career so far:

Chad M. Clark (b. 1973) is a Chicago-based guitarist. Immersed in the instrument’s physical properties, his palette is a measure of size, encompassing both finite and infinite magnitudes.

From the narrow rasps of strings stretched taut to the creaking breath of the wood itself, the ways in which particular vibrational phenomena contour the subjective experience of time and space permeates Clark’s practice.

He has performed with many improvising musicians, including Tim Daisy, Weasel Walter, Mark Feldman, Bill Harris, Damon Smith, Jim Baker, Viv Corringham, Norman Long, Carol Genetti, Jack Wright, and Keefe Jackson. His latest record with drummer and guitarist Weasel Walter, Sublimation Incantation, came out on February 15th 2024.

Buy his most recent CD here.

Recording information:

CHAD M CLARK
2025-01-25 
Milwaukee, WI 
Jazz Gallery 

Chad M Clark: guitar 

Setlist: 
01 Untitled Improvisation (22:04) 

Total time = 22:04 

Microphones: Line Audio CM3 in ORTF 
Recorder: Sound Devices MixPre6ii at 32/96 
Software: Audacity, xAct


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