Are you a music lover? Are you interested in composing or performing or do you simply want to expand your knowledge and appreciation as a listener? Through his creative project, Bard Eclectic, local composer-performer-educator Jason Baskin will present a lecture recital at Albrecht Kemper Museum of Art with something for everyone. Across an interactive program of improvisation, original works, and occasionally familiar covers, Bard Eclectic will show you how music can convey images and stories, illuminate the architecture of pulse and rhythm and the compositional pillars of tension and resolution, offer approaches to writing melodies and multi-movement works, share strategies for building repertoire and creating a set list, and much more. By the end you will have more tools to say what you want to say in your own music, you will be able to hear and understand more details in the music you already love.
-Sunday August 18th, 3:30-5PM
-held in AKMA auditorium
-$10 entry per person
-Non-Alcoholic refreshments available to purchase
Bard Eclectic Bio
Bard Eclectic is a canvas for the creative output of multi-instrumental composer-performer-educator Jason Baskin.
Built around themes like agency, self-discovery, relationships, cats, language, and a genre-blended repertoire of original music, selected covers, improvisation, and ever-shifting instrumentation, no two BE shows are alike. Supporters are encouraged to attend more than one performance to see the fuller scope of the project, but a “default” solo performance involves percussion, keyboard, looper, and vocals, occasionally growing or reducing to include steel drum, mandolin, flower pots, special guest performers, and more.
Based in Saint Joseph, Missouri, Bard Eclectic is currently focused on live shows and original social media content, and is in development stages for a series of albums, a novelized storyline, and music education outreach.
Jason Baskin Bio
Jason Baskin is a multi-instrumental music performer, composer, and educator based in Saint Joseph, Missouri. He holds degrees in music and English with a wide range of focuses such as percussion performance, composition, creative writing, German, and pedagogy. Notable accomplishments include an unpublished collection of drum set transcriptions for Danny Carey’s studio recordings with Tool; winning a percussionist position with the 2003 Mid-America Productions National Wind Ensemble, giving a culmination performance at Carnegie Hall, New York City; and premiering a movement of his percussion ensemble piece Pa Qua in the 2008 soundSCAPE Music Festival in Pavia, Italy, in which he was the only applicant to participate as both a composer and a performer.
With versatile experiences in classical music, theatre, jazz and rock groups, and solo recitals, he remains an active performer and composer with over a hundred completed compositions, premiering them in the United States, Germany, and Italy. Many of these are available through Amalgam Publishing, for which he acts as chief editor and joint proprietor. In addition to freelancing, he currently performs in his creative project, Bard Eclectic, and as the drummer for improv metal group, Grimace’s Orifice. He has taught music in a variety of settings from kindergarten to college, and maintains lesson studios in Saint Joseph and Kansas City.