James Ilgenfritz

James Ilgenfritz (born 1978) is an American composer, bassist and multi-instrumentalist. He is also a jazz sideman. As a composer, he is known for his surreal experimental multimedia chamber operas, including The Ticket That Exploded (2011, in residency at ISSUE Project Room), and I Looked At The Eclipse (2019, in residency at Roulette Intermedium), and frenetic chamber works including In The Summer Every Truth Is Like A Saturday (2019). As a jazz and experimental music sideman, he has collaborated with Lukas Ligeti and Eyal Maoz (in the trio Hypercolor), Elliott Sharp, Pauline Oliveros, Roscoe Mitchell, Anthony Braxton, John Zorn, Miya Masaoka, JG Thirlwell, Annie Gosfield, SEM Ensemble, Liturgy, and Ghost Ensemble. Ilgenfritz studied at UCSD with Mark Dresser, Charles Curtis, and Miller Puckette.

Stay Logged In On This Trusted Device - 2024-05-17T00:00:00.000000Z

#entrainments - 2023-05-26T00:00:00.000000Z

Altamirage - 2022-10-21T00:00:00.000000Z

Topics - 2022-02-13T00:00:00.000000Z

Loss and Gain - 2021-11-05T00:00:00.000000Z

Doublebassement - 2021-08-20T00:00:00.000000Z

Aging - 2021-05-14T00:00:00.000000Z

The Ticket That Exploded - 2020-09-25T00:00:00.000000Z

You Scream a Rapid Language - 2019-12-13T00:00:00.000000Z

Opalescence - 2018-06-22T00:00:00.000000Z

The Ticket That Exploded: An Opera - 2015-03-10T00:00:00.000000Z

Hypercolor - 2015-01-20T00:00:00.000000Z

Compositions (Braxton) 2011 - 1970-01-01T00:00:00.000000Z

Babardah - 2004-08-30T00:00:00.000000Z

Almostness - 2024-05-09T00:00:00.000000Z

Subject-Object-Abject - 2024-04-29T00:00:00.000000Z

Apophenia V: A - 2024-03-20T00:00:00.000000Z

#saladdays - 2023-05-05T00:00:00.000000Z

#frontmatter - 2023-04-04T00:00:00.000000Z

no answer - 2021-09-28T00:00:00.000000Z

V - 2021-05-04T00:00:00.000000Z

III - 2021-03-29T00:00:00.000000Z

Trust Fall - 2020-09-11T00:00:00.000000Z

Cerebral Sex Scenes - 2020-09-04T00:00:00.000000Z

M. Lamar Live - 2019-11-15T00:00:00.000000Z