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Jeremiah Cymerman

Jeremiah Cymerman (pronounced SIMMER-MAN) is a composer and clarinetist based in Brooklyn, New York. He was born May 4th, 1980 in log cabin in North Georgia. Since 2002 Cymerman has been active in a wide variety of musical contexts and has been honored to present his work in some of New York City's most highly regarded venues for avant-garde and experimental music including The Stone, Issue Project Room, Roulette, Anthology Film Archives, Washington Square Church, and The Tank, among many others. Described by Time Out New York as "one of downtown's most inventive and resourceful composer-performers" Cymerman has performed with a wide range of contemporary artists including Jessica Pavone, Otomo Yoshihide, Jandek, Ned Rothenberg, Ikue Mori, John Zorn, Toby Driver, Lawrence D. "Butch" Morris, Sylvie Courvoisier, Trevor Dunn, Walter Thompson, Nate Wooley, Mary Halvorson, and Matthew Welch, among many others.

With a foot deeply rooted in the avant-garde tradition of downtown New York and an interest in exploring new methods for clarinet performance, Cymerman has developed a highly personal language of extended clarinet techniques which are often augmented by a customized analog electronics set-up. After several self-released hand-made cd's, in February 2007 Cymerman released his first album as a leader, "Big Exploitation", on Solponticello Records, a record that found him in the role of conductor of a 13 piece improvising big band. The album found its way to regular rotation on college and jazz radio stations nation-wide. In April of 2008 Tzadik Records will release his newest cd, "In Memory of the Labyrinth System", a series compositions for solo clarinet and computer processing.

Bloodmist: arc

by Mark Corroto
May 21, 2022

arc, the fifth release by the trio Bloodmist , might be the 21st century's answer to Lou Reed's seminal work New York (Sire, 1989). Not that arc is a rock album, because it certainly is not. It has no lyrics, no references to dirty boulevards, dime store mysteries, or the demise of the American dream. It's just that the doom Reed sings about is on full display here. The trio is comprised of the clarinet plus electronics of ...

Album Review

Jeremiah Cymerman: Systema Munditotius, vol. 1

Read "Systema Munditotius, vol. 1" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
May 6, 2020

Musician, composer, producer, Jeremiah Cymerman may have created the soundtrack to our current circumstance. Not that his project Systema Munditotius, vol. 1 was conceived and produced after the discovery of the CoronaVirus in 2019, but that it may have prophesied this pandemic. This project centers around a diagram psychiatrist Carl Jung created in 1916. It was a mandala representing the system of all the worlds. Where his prior recording Decay of An Angel (5019 Records, 2018) concerned the ...

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Jeremiah Cymerman: Decay Of The Angel

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by Mark Corroto
August 14, 2018

I don't recall the soundtrack to the original Bladerunner, Ridley Scott's 1982 film starring Harrison Ford. The movie, an adaptation of science fiction writer Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, blurs the line between human and android. That same obfuscation (electroacoustic) is at the heart of Jeremiah Cymerman's solo recording Decay of the Angel and maybe, just maybe, a more suitable soundtrack to Bladerunner. Cymerman is a clarinetist, but also a sound engineer. His ...

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Recording

Jeremiah Cymerman - "Under a Blue Grey Sky" (Porter)

Source: Master of a Small House
April 6, 2010

Clarinetist Jeremiah Cymerman caps his licorice stick in favor of composer's quill on his latest disc. The album-length titular piece comprises six acts and an interlude for string quartet. Cymerman's hand is also active in the electronic “treatments" he adds to the strings players' interactions. His picks for participants prove inspired choices with Jessica Pavone and Olivia De Prato handling viola and violin, Christopher Hoffman hoisting cello and Tom Blancarte fielding the bottom register on double bass. Each member is ...
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Talibam, I Heart Lung, Jeremiah Cymerman on Ecstatic Jazz Duos 12" Series

Source: All About Jazz
July 1, 2008

The Ecstatic Jazz Duos 12" Series collects six of the most innovative duos in the avant-jazz/free-noise realm. Each duo contributes a side of vinyl over three LPs (each in an edition of 500) to be released over 2008. The subscription (limited to just 100) includes all three 12"s plus stickers, buttons, and a CDr of exclusive content only available to subscribers. Pre-orders available now.

LP1: Talibam! (NYC synth/drums a la Sun Ra) Wasteland Jazz Unit (Borbetomagus-size reed-distortion)

LP2: ...
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