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"Jeremiah Cymerman didn't impress me terribly. Most of the time he appeared to be trying his hardest NOT to make a sound with his clarinet - blowing on it, sucking air through it, but not producing anything close to a conventional note. The problem with the performances from these two is that they didn't evoke much feeling from me. I don't know if that is the point of this kind of music, but what is art supposed to be if it is completely unenjoyable?"
-The Litigous Hipster, 6/3/07
Jeremiah Cymerman (pronounced SIMMER-MAN) is a composer and clarinetist based in Brooklyn, New York. Since 2002 he 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 Roulette, The Stone, Issue Project Room, Anthology Film Archives, and Washington Square Church. Described by Time Out New York as "one of downtown's most inventive and resourceful composer-performers" Cymerman has worked with a broad range of contemporary artists including Otomo Yoshihide, John Zorn, Jandek, Ned Rothenberg, Ikue Mori, Peter Evans, Jessica Pavone, Toby Driver, Lawrence D. "Butch" Morris, 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 cdrs, in February 2007 Cymerman released his first album as a leader, "Big Exploitation", 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 and according to Phillip Buchan of Flagpole Magazine “swings with a desperate-as-your-life abandon that makes it feel astonishingly sincere, a far cry from a postmodern grab bag.” In 2008 the Tzadik label released his album "In Memory of the Labyrinth System", a highly personal work featuring a series of compositions for solo clarinet and computer processing which Andy Hamilton of the Wire called “a wholly original and intriguing listen” and found it’s way to many top ten lists for the year. In 2009, with assistance from funds provided by the Jerome Foundation, Cymerman premiered a new work for string quartet and electronics, entitled “Under a Blue, Grey Sky” which was commissioned by Roulette.
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