Jeremiah Cymerman (pronounced simmer-man) is a composer and clarinetist based in New York City 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, Evan Parker, Peter Evans, Jessica Pavone, Toby Driver, Lawrence D. "Butch" Morris, Trevor Dunn, Anthony Coleman, 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 saxophone maestro Evan Parker described as “an astonishing achievement”. In 2009, with assistance from the Jerome Foundation, Cymerman premiered a new work for string quartet and electronics, entitled “Under a Blue, Grey Sky” which was commissioned by Roulette and released on Porter Records in 2010. Derek Taylor of All About Jazz described the album as “an uncommonly astute merger of acoustic and electronic elements.” 2011 will see the release of two new albums, “Fire Sign”, an extreme recording of cut-up pieces and graphic scores and “Polyimage of Known Exits”, by Tartar Lamb II, a collaboration with Toby Driver and members of the band Kayo Dot.
Selected Discography:
Jeremiah Cymerman: Big Exploitation (2007 Solponticello)
Jeremiah Cymerman: In Memory of the Labyrinth System (2008 Tzadik)
Jeremiah Cymerman: Under a Blue Grey Sky (2010 Porter)
Jeremiah Cymerman: Fire Sign (2011 Tragic Beauty)
Tartar Lamb II: Polyimage of Known Exits (2011 Ice Level Music)
Production Credits:
Engineer Peter Evans: Nature/Culture (2009 PSI)
Engineer Peter Evans/Nate Wooley: TBA (2011 Carrier Records)
Producer Harris Eisenstadt: Woodblock Prints (2010 No Business)
Engineer Nate Wooley: Trumpet/Amplifier (2010 Smerald Rima)
Editing Matthew Welch: Blarvuster (2010 Tzadik)
Engineer Jessica Pavone: This is My Violin (2011 Striking Mechanism)
Engineer Jessica Pavone: Walking Sleeping Breathing (2008 Nowaki)
Engineer Dan Peck Trio: Acid Soil (2010 Heat Retention)
Engineer Nate Wooley: Seven Storey Mountain II (2011 Important Records)
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