Jonathan Sielaff: clarinet, bass clarinet, guitar, banjo, saw, hulusi, toy keyboards, serge synth, electronics, etc....
Influences
Morton Feldman, Giacinto Scelsi, John Coltrane, John Fahey, Gagaku court music, Toru Takemitsu, Leonard Cohen, musics from Madagascar, Ethiopia, The Philippines, Brazil, Indonesia, Myanmar, China, Appalachia, etc....
Jonathan Sielaff is a musician living in Portland, Oregon.
He plays as many instruments as he can find the time to learn, but focuses primarily on the clarinets and guitar.
As an improviser, he has played with hundreds of wonderful folks from all over the globe.
In Portland, he regularly participates in recordings and concerts with song-writers, bands and new-music ensembles.
His primary collaborations are Golden Retriever (with Matt Carlson), a quartet with Jordan Dykstra (viola) Mary Sutton (violin) and Bob Jones (bass), a duo with Lisa Schonberg (of ), Mouthpieces (with Scott Magee), and the group Au (Au Website) with Luke Wyland and many others.
He also enjoys working with dancers, poets and film-makers.
===============================
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Hey...nice to hear from you. All demo stuff so far, but I am in the process of putting a band together. Still doing a little edgy jazz sorta stuff, but otherwise playing with guitars a lot these days. Yes...let's keep in touch. J
