# Ken Field

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{{Infobox musical artist <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Musicians -->
| name                = Ken Field
| image                 = Filmmaker Karen Aqua and composer Ken Field.jpg
| caption            = Ken Field with his wife, filmmaker [Karen Aqua](/source/Karen_Aqua).
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| background          = non_vocal_instrumentalist
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| birth_date                = {{birth date and age|1953|01|26}}
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| instrument          = Saxophone, flute, percussion
| genre               = [Jazz](/source/Jazz)
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| associated_acts     = [Birdsongs of the Mesozoic](/source/Birdsongs_of_the_Mesozoic), [Revolutionary Snake Ensemble](/source/Revolutionary_Snake_Ensemble)
| website                 = http://kenfield.org
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'''Ken Field''' (born January 26, 1953) is a [saxophonist](/source/saxophonist), [flautist](/source/flautist), [percussionist](/source/percussionist), and [composer](/source/composer).<ref>"[http://www.jazz.com/encyclopedia/field-ken Ken Field] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120202211749/http://www.jazz.com/encyclopedia/field-ken |date=2012-02-02 }}", ''Encyclopedia of Jazz Musicians'', Jazz.com, retrieved 2010-10-31</ref>  Since 1988 he has been a member of the electrified modern music ensemble [Birdsongs of the Mesozoic](/source/Birdsongs_of_the_Mesozoic), with whom he has recorded eight CDs.<ref>"[https://www.allaboutjazz.com/musicians/ken-field Ken Field] ", allaboutjazz.com, retrieved 2010-10-31</ref>

==Career==

Field has been Composer-in-Residence at the [Ucross Foundation](/source/Ucross_Foundation), Wyoming, the Fundación Valparaíso, Spain, the [MacDowell Colony](/source/MacDowell_Colony), and the [Atlantic Center for the Arts](/source/Atlantic_Center_for_the_Arts), Florida. He has performed for President [Bill Clinton](/source/Bill_Clinton), and with former [J. Geils](/source/The_J._Geils_Band) frontman [Peter Wolf](/source/Peter_Wolf). Ken Field is a [Vandoren](/source/Vandoren) Performing Artist.

Field has also composed music for animation, film, and dance, including music for children's television program [Sesame Street](/source/Sesame_Street).<ref>{{cite web|title=Ken Field interviews on Outsight Radio Hours|url=https://archive.org/details/FieldKenOutsight|work=Archive.org|accessdate=4 May 2014}}</ref>

Field was named a Finalist in Music Composition by the Massachusetts Cultural Council in 2017.

===Revolutionary Snake Ensemble===

Field leads the [Revolutionary Snake Ensemble](/source/Revolutionary_Snake_Ensemble),<ref>{{cite web|title=Ken Field interviews on Outsight Radio Hours|url=https://archive.org/details/FieldKenOutsight|work=Archive.org|accessdate=4 May 2014}}</ref> a [New Orleans](/source/New_Orleans)-inspired improvisational brass band.<ref>Sullivan, Jim (2003) "TODAY IT'S SPIRITUAL, TOMORROW IT'S FUNEREAL", ''[Boston Globe](/source/Boston_Globe)'', November 13, 2003</ref> Their 2008 release ''Forked Tongue'' appeared on best-of-year lists in the ''[Village Voice](/source/Village_Voice)'' and the Estonian ''[Postimees](/source/Postimees)'', as well as on lists in Georgia, Michigan, Ohio, Kansas, Wisconsin, and New York.  ''Year of the Snake'', the group's 2003 debut release, was included on best-of-year lists from [WNYC](/source/WNYC) Radio, the ''[Gambit Weekly](/source/Gambit_Weekly)'', and the Italian station [Radio Popolare](/source/Radio_Popolare).  The group has performed at the [Brooklyn Academy of Music](/source/Brooklyn_Academy_of_Music), the [Museum of Fine Arts, Boston](/source/Museum_of_Fine_Arts%2C_Boston), the Puffin Cultural Forum, Berklee Performance Center, and numerous other venues, and has been nominated for a [Boston Music Award](/source/Boston_Music_Award), and several [Boston Phoenix](/source/Boston_Phoenix)/[WFNX](/source/WFNX_(101.7_FM)) Best Music Poll awards.

==Personal life==
Field married the filmmaker [Karen Aqua](/source/Karen_Aqua) in 1984.

==Discography==
*''Subterranea'' (1996)
*''Pictures of Motion'' (1999)<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |last=Abbott |first=Jim |date=November 4, 2001 |title=AN ARTIST'S PLACE ; TERRORIST ATTACKS INSPIRE KEN FIELD AND OTHERS AT THE ATLANTIC CENTER FOR THE ARTS: |work=[Orlando Sentinel](/source/Orlando_Sentinel) |pages=F1.}}</ref>
*''Tokyo in F'' (2000)<ref name=":0" />
*''Year of the Snake'' (2003), [Innova Recordings](/source/Innova_Recordings)
*''No Such Animal'' (2006), [Innova Recordings](/source/Innova_Recordings)
*''Under the Skin'' (2006), [Innova Recordings](/source/Innova_Recordings)
*''Forked Tongue'' (2008), [Cuneiform Records](/source/Cuneiform_Records)
*''Live Snakes'', a live album (2014), Accurate Records<ref>{{cite web|title=Ken Field interview 13-Apr-2014 on Outsight Radio Hours|url=https://archive.org/details/FieldKenOutsight|work=Archive.org|accessdate=4 May 2014}}</ref>
*''I Want That Sound'', (2016), [Innova Recordings](/source/Innova_Recordings)
*''Iridescence'', (2020), Ravello Records
*''Transmitter'', (2021), Neuma Recordings

==Other work==

Field has undertaken residencies and conducted workshops at a number of US universities. He was formerly on the faculty of the Music Maker School, where he taught saxophone and flute. He also hosts ''The New Edge'', a weekly radio program on [WMBR](/source/WMBR) in [Cambridge, Massachusetts](/source/Cambridge%2C_Massachusetts) and [WOMR](/source/WOMR) in [Provincetown, Massachusetts](/source/Provincetown%2C_Massachusetts), and curated and co-directed Cultural Constructions, an intercultural music performance project.  Field is Vice-President of the Board of Directors of Cambridge, MA based [Tutoring Plus of Cambridge](/source/Tutoring_Plus_of_Cambridge), President of the Board of Directors of [JazzBoston](/source/JazzBoston), and a member of the Organizing Committee of the [HONK!](/source/HONK!) Festival of Activist Street Bands.

Field is Master of the Studio of Music Business, Composition, Performance, and Soundtrack Design with [The Beijing DeTao Masters Academy](/source/Beijing_DeTao_Masters_Academy) (DTMA), a high-level, multi-disciplined, application-oriented higher education institution in [Shanghai, China](/source/Shanghai).

==References==
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==External links==
*{{Official website|http://kenfield.org/}}

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