Ken Field(I)
- Composer
- Music Department
- Sound Department
Ken Field is a Boston-based saxophonist, flautist, and composer. Since
1988 he has been a member of the internationally acclaimed modern music
ensemble Birdsongs of the Mesozoic. Field also leads the Revolutionary
Snake Ensemble, an improvisational brass band whose second release,
Forked Tongue, was included on best-of-year lists in the Village Voice,
the Postimees (Estonia), and ten others. The Ensemble's debut CD, Year
of the Snake, was named by WNYC music director John Schaefer as one of
his top 20 "new sounds" releases of all time. The group has appeared at
the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston), the
Puffin Cultural Forum, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and
numerous other venues. Field has performed in the US, Canada, Mexico,
France, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Hungary, Ireland, Switzerland, Italy,
and Japan, and has been Composer-in-Residence at the MacDowell Colony,
the Ucross Foundation (Wyoming), the Fundacion Valparaiso (Spain), and
the Atlantic Center for the Arts (Florida). His solo releases document
his compositions and improvisations for layered alto saxophones. His
recordings have been released on the Cuneiform, O.O.Discs, sFz
Recordings, Sublingual, and Innova labels, and have been featured in
The New York Times, Saxophone Journal, The Boston Globe, The Los
Angeles Times, The Washington Post, and many other publications. Field
is an Applied Microphone Technology Endorser and a Vandoren Performing
Artist. His music is also heard regularly on Sesame Street.