Currently listening to: Bill Dixon: Odyssey, all things Don Cherry, Wadada Leo Smith: Red Sulphur Sky and Kulture Jazz, The Who: Tommy, J.S. Bach: Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin, all things Joni Mitchell, Kraftwerk: Tour De France Soundtrack, Morton Feldman: Triadic Memories, Miles Davis: Jack Johnson Sessions, Hendrix, Herbie Hancock 1965-75, Oblivion Ensemble: Seraphim Hallucino, Black Flag, Ornette Coleman: Song X 20th, all things Art Ensemble of Chicago and Olivier Messiaen, Morton Subotnick: Silver Apples/Wild Bull, Jon Hassell/Farafina: Flash of the Spirit, Sub-ID: BFF, Sau Paulo Underground, Chicago Underground Duo: 12o of Freedom, and Trio: Slon, Pan Sonic: Kesto, Leevi Madetoja: Complete Orchestral Works: Oulu Symphony
Movies
Daily: Mary Poppins, and Eloise. Currently: the new documentary on Danish cellist Erling-Blondal Bengtsson, Queen: The Making of A Night at the Opera
Television
Not much ... news...weather ... detroit pistons ... thomas the tank engine ... clifford the big red dog...
Books
Nightly: Bonjour Babar: Complete Six Volumes, lots of Dr. Seuss, Who Will Comfort Toffle, 101 Dalmatians, Barbapapa, Olivia, etc.
Currently: Aila Meriluoto: Statue of Fire, George Russell: Lydian Chromatic Concept, Suomi/Englanti Sanakirja, Tao Te Ching - Lao Tzu, and the ones I'm writing.
About me: I teach improvisation, composition and theory at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI. Otherwise, I'm pursuing these things around the world.
For more about my work, please visit:
sonikman.com.
To check out my album This Electric Trumpet, please go to:
http://cdbaby.com/cd/kirschenmann.
For more on E3Q, please go to: blockmrecords.org.
TET and E3Q are also found on iTunes.
Who I'd like to meet: Nelson Mandela, Pete Cosey, Tom Jenkinson, Jon Hassell, Joni Mitchell, Bill Dixon, Kaija Saariaho, Paul Dolden, Gabriela Montero, Greg Ginn, Henry Threadgill...
Mark my man how are you. I'm doin great. Hanging out in Royal Oak and gigging here and there. Are you doing CAO this semester? How is it goin? Are you around this spring/summer? We should hang/jam.
