Videos of Selected Live Performances:
Massimo Magee - Tenor Saxophone
Joshua Weitzel - Guitar
Tim Green - Drums
Live at Villa Plagwitz, Leipzig, 04 February 2020
Filmed by MiHee Kim Magee
Recent Releases:
Live at the Paint Factory - Massimo Magee [Lurker Bias, 2024]
Massimo Magee - Alto Saxophone
Cover photograph by MiHee Kim Magee
Eyes That See - Bruno Duplant and Massimo Magee [Grisaille, 2023]
Music for a lost documentary film
Massimo Magee : saxophone & electronics
Bruno Duplant : synth & electronics
Mastering & photography by Bruno Duplant
Networking - Massimo Magee [Orbit577, 2023]
2 solos and 7 virtual duos created across the world with:
Travis D. Johnson - Digital Synthesis on (2)
Tim Green - Drums and Percussion on (3)
Joshua Weitzel - Guitar on (4) and Pure Data on (5)
A.F. Jones - Live Sampling on (6)
Thomas Milovac - Double Bass on (7)
Lance Austin Olsen - Amplified Objects and Guitar on (8)
Massimo Magee - Acoustic Alto Saxophone on all tracks except Electro-/Acoustic Alto Saxophone on (8)
Cover painting by MiHee Kim Magee
Toneflower - Massimo Magee [577 Records, 2022]
Solo Alto Saxophone Improvisations
Cover, back and inner sleeve paintings by MiHee Kim Magee
The Contemporary Jazz Clarinet of Massimo Magee And His Rhythm - Massimo Magee [Falt Tapes, 2023]
Solo clarinet and feedback mixer improvisation
Minimal Remixes - VA [Poverty Electronics, 2023]
These tracks are all reworkings of my improvisation for no-input mixer, Minimal. They're 'remixes' in the sense that the original is mixer music but there were no separate tracks to play around with. The contributors here take my piece whole and run with it, in a wide variety of unpredictable directions, each in their own unique idiom(s), fancies, conjectures. I thank them all for taking the music to new places I never could have dreamed up!
Remixers:
datewithdeath - linktr.ee/datewithdeath
DJ Armpit - www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100090902478531
Gintas K - gintask.puslapiai.lt
Ilia Belorukov - belorukov.blogspot.com
Jukka-Pekka Kervinen - jukkapekkakervinen.randomflux.info
N.O. Moore - dxdyrecordings.com
Steve Flato - steveflato.bandcamp.com
cover art by MiHee Kim Magee, remixed by Massimo Magee
mastered by Travis D. Johnson
Turbulator - Massimo Magee, Taekjoon Kim, Dasom Baek [Mung Music, 2022]
Trio and solo improvised music by:
Massimo Magee- Sopranino Sax
Taekjoon Kim- Flute, Alto Flute
Dasom Baek- Daegum 대금
Mixing, mastering, artwork by Sunjae Lee
Callosal - Massimo Magee [Why Keith Dropped the S, 2022]
For two no-input mixing boards and one Joseon bowl fragment.
The two separate feedback systems were only able to communicate with and influence each other by vibrating through the bowl fragment. This fragment of a bowl made in Korea’s Joseon period was discovered by Alfred 23 Harth in Korea and given to me as a gift, for which I am very grateful. To place this artefact from centuries ago between two implements of modern electronic music-making suggests a larger point.
It is often, if not always, the case that different sets of potentials (technological or otherwise) can only operate with and on each other through the traditions, attitudes and frames of thought passed down to us by our history. In such situations, it is wise not only to evaluate the possibilities themselves as though they were in isolation, but also to take into account the breadth or narrowness of these attitudinal conduits through which they must pass in their constant communication with each other as they co-evolve, in order to properly gauge how this evolution is developing and what might be changed in order to encourage progress along a more universally beneficial path.
Photo of the Callosal LP by Alfred 23 Harth.
Easter Monday Music - Ken Ikeda, Massimo Magee, Eddie Prévost, Joshua Weitzel [577 Records, 2022]
Improvisations recorded live at Cafe OTO by:
Eddie Prévost - Percussion
Ken Ikeda - Synthesizer
Massimo Magee - Electronics, Saxophone
Joshua Weitzel - Shamisen
Cover painting by MiHee Kim Magee.
344 - Bruno Duplant, Frédéric Tentelier, Massimo Magee [Orbit577, 2022]
Improvisations by:
Bruno Duplant - Double bass and Percussion
Frédéric Tentelier - Fender Rhodes
Massimo Magee - Sopranino, Alto and Tenor Saxophones, Clarinet
Cover painting by MiHee Kim Magee.
Abeyance - Tim Green and Massimo Magee [Orbit577, 2021]
Improvised music by:
Tim Green - Drums
Massimo Magee - Electro/acoustic alto saxophone, clarinet
Cover painting by MiHee Kim Magee.
Minimal - Massimo Magee [Poverty Electronics, 2021]
Improvisation for no-input mixer, recorded in one take, no edits, no effects.
Cover painting by MiHee Kim Magee.
The Clear Revolution - Cyclone Trio [577 Records, 2021]
Improvisations by:
Tim Green – Drums
Massimo Magee – Tenor, Alto & Sopranino Saxophones, Silver Rattle
Tony Irving - Drums
Mingle - Steve Flato and Massimo Magee [Poverty Electronics, 2021]
Steve Flato - synth, electronics
Massimo Magee - sopranino, alto, and tenor saxophones; snare drum; mixer; glitching
Cover painting by MiHee Kim Magee.
Live in the Metaverse (to Evan Parker and John Coltrane) - Massimo Magee [Orbit577, 2021]
Solo clarinet improvisations recorded live in the virtual venue Octo Bar.
Cover painting by MiHee Kim Magee.
Cataclysm…Live at Cafe OTO - Cyclone Trio [Orbit577, 2020]
Cyclone Trio recorded live at Cafe OTO:
Massimo Magee: Tenor Saxophone
Tim Green: Drums
Tony Irving: Drums
Trio - Toshimaru Nakamura, Yuma Takeshita, Massimo Magee [Self-released, 2020]
Improvisations recorded live at OTOOTO in Tokyo.
Toshimaru Nakamura - No-input mixing board
Yuma Takeshita - Electro-bass
Massimo Magee - Electro-/acoustic alto saxophone
The Interloper - Ed Pettersen and Massimo Magee [Self-released, 2020]
Improvisations recorded at New River Studios.
Ed Pettersen - Lap steel and effects
Massimo Magee - Electro-/acoustic alto and sopranino saxophone
Vitriol and the Third Oraculum - Tony Irving and Massimo Magee [577 Records, 2020]
Live duo improvisations by:
Massimo Magee - Tenor, Alto and Sopranino Saxophones
Tony Irving - Drums
Poussez - Massimo Magee [Copy For Your Records, 2014, rereleased 2020]
Massimo Magee - Vertical and Horizontal Alto Saxophone
with
DJ Conical Bore - Samples
Tim Green - Drums
Max Fowler-Roy - Bass