JEFFERY KYLE HUTCHINS, SAXOPHONE
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Compositions

you can't hold it against them, taragato and electronics for Esther Lamneck, in progress
i thought you said forever, 1-3 violins for Maya Bennardo and Duo Gelland, in progress
that this, soprano and electronics for Tiffany DuMouchelle, in progress
i'll wait until it's quiet, ensemble and field recordings for 113, premiere at matik-matik in Bogotá, Colombia, 6/2025
even if i must go, 8 percussionists in a field for 113 and Zeitgeist, premiere at Festival at the Farm, Ellsworth, WI, 8/2024 ​
downcast eyes, clarinet and electronics for Michelle Smith Johnson, premiere at Alma del Core, Roanoke, VA, 5/2024
Postcard Piece No. 2, a fluxus mail art piece (edition of 8), delivered 5/2024
dismantle me, clarinet and electronics for me, premiered at AfterMAF Festival, Art Rat Studios, 7/2023
are we all lost like you?, at least four saxophones for Kendra Wheeler, premiered at Music on Mondays, Recital Salon, Virginia Tech, 3/2023
prime, musique concrète for 113, premiered by 113 Collective, virtual, 1/2023
junk merchant, musique concrète for 113, premiered by 113 Collective, virtual, 8/2022
Postcard Piece, a fluxus mail art piece (edition of 8), delivered 7/2021
Turtle Cry, solo voice for Alyssa Anderson, premiered at Studio 113 presents Experimental Vocal Music, virtual, 5/2021
Cookie Piece, a fluxus video piece for Joshua Musikantow, premiered at Live Election Coverage, virtual, 11/2020
For Sam and Kyle, saxophone and electric guitar for Sam Krahn, premiered at Green River College, Auburn, WA, 11/2019
re(k)nub, musique concrète for James Turrell, premiered Regis Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, 9/2014
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Devised Work

The Common Opus (with Emily Lau), SATB choir, harp, violin, viola da gamba, saxophone, percussion, premiered at Portland’5, Portland, OR, 7/2023
​column (with Ted Moore), feedback saxophone w/ implanted electronics, 142-channel audio, lights, premiered in the Cube, Blacksburg, VA, 2/2019
Alien Nail Polish (with Dan Tramte), saxophone, objects, and video, premiered in the Cube, Blacksburg, VA, 2/2019
alloy (with Ted Moore) saxophone and feedback cymbals, premiered at Constellation, Chicago, IL, 11/2019
bbbaby (with Niccolo Seligmann), prepared saxophones, prepared viola da gamba, EWI, and baby head theremin, premiered at The Crown, Baltimore, MD, 1/2019
PLEASE SAY SOMETHING: Silent Posts (with NME and Alexander Schubert), ensemble, electronics and video, premiered in the Cube, Blacksburg, VA, 12/2018
hollow (with Ted Moore), feedback saxophone and feedback PVC tubes, premiered at Northwestern University, 4/2018
eclipse (with Ted Moore), tenor saxophone, live processing, live video, premiered at Skewed Vision Studios, 1/2014


Documentary

Caress of the Periphery of the After-Margin by tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, YouTube (2023)
Alien Nail Polish DECLASSIFIED, ScoreFollower (2020)


Ensemble Projects

113 Composers Collective, (2012-present)
Acute Trio, (2019)
AVIDduo, (2010-2018)
Banshee, (2023-present)
Binary Canary, (2013-present)
The Broken Consort, (2017-present)
Cinémathèque, (2022-present)
Fonema Consort, (2023-present)
Hutchins-Johnson Duo, (2019-present)
Hutchins-Qiang Duo, (2015-present)
Hutchins-Wheeler Duo, (2022-present)
Kill All Kings, (2023-present)
NME, (2017-2021)
The Poem Is Done, (2014-present)
Strains, (2016-present)


Interviews

Saxophones, soundscapes and slap tongues, oh my! Augustana Observer (2024)​
Weirder Than Your Average Bear, Is This Music?!?! Podcast (2021)
Talking Free Music, interview series (2020-present)
This Is Maximalist: The Cube @ Virginia Tech, Engineers' Forum magazine (2019)


New Music

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Performance Projects
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The Engastrimyth by Joey Crane, an hour-long saxophone+electronics work (2024)
The William Blake Cycle: Unseen, Unbodièd, Unknown by Tiffany Skidmore, multimedia saxophone opera (2014-22)
Virginia Tech New Music + Technology Festival, festival organizer (2021-present)​
Live Election Coverage, a fluxus show (2021)
Twin Cities New Music Festival, festival organizer (2018-present)
Face Wails In Mouth, vocal and performance show (2016)
Persephone, performance with movement (2014)
Vocal Repertoire, (2014-ongoing)
Identity of the Moment, performance with textile artist (2013)
Ursonate, dada sound poem (2013-ongoing)


Publications

in-Approperiated Press #18: is AN ARCHwaY to FAIRyland, mOnocle-Lash Anti-Press zine (2024)
Automated Sound Design by Eric Lyon, A-R Editions, supporting audio examples (2022)
Solo Saxophone, Vol. 1, One Thirteen, anthology (2021)
Solo Saxophone, Vol, 2, One Thirteen, anthology (2021)
SOLOS: *ursonate, book object (2021)
Review: Tom Weeks, Alto Saxophone Improvisations, April 29, 2020, College Music Symposium Vol. 60, No. 2, review article (2020)
Saxophone Music with Minimalistic Tendencies, LAP Lambert, book (2017)


Repertoire


Research Projects

​Synchrony In Musical Performance, ICAT (2025)


Theatre

Zwei Akte (1988-89) by Mauricio Kagel, ​theatre piece for saxophones, harp, and two nude actors, North American Premiere (2021)
Alice Underground, performer, composer, ensemble director, Virginia Tech (2020)
The Ballad of Curtis King, theatre sound design for Skewed Visions (2016)
Krapp's Last Tape, actor, Ted Mann Concert Hall (2015)


Video Art

​Cloud City Collage, video album with dance (2021)
Saxual Orientation by Pauline Oliveros, film made with my students (2021)
​Confessions, new experimental video works for ensemble (2020)
ICD-10CM R55 by Elizabeth A. Baker, performance and film (2020)
Alien Nail Polish (with Dan Tramte), saxophone, objects, and video (2019)


Visual Art and Installations

Transformation + Abundance, interactive multimedia installations (2022)
​Snow Pesher, photo booklet (2021)
​Exulansis Rake, a series of visual experiments (2017-2018)
​Indifference, mixed media (2015)
​Minneapolis^3, performance installation (2014)
Testing In Progress, performance installation (2014)
requiem: Ectopistes migratorius, improvisation with sound sculpture installation (2014)
​Movement, sculpture (2014)
Sound Sculpture, installation (2014)
© Jeffery Kyle Hutchins 2025
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