Hayes Greenfield
As soon as I started using effects pedals with my saxophone in 2003 I found the K&K Hot Spot pickup. It’s literally where the tire meets the road because I tape it directly to my reed. Plus, because it’s a pickup and not a mic drilled into either my sax neck, mouthpiece, or on a mic stand, I never have any feedback issues. And most importantly the sound that the Hot Spot delivers is full, warm, and has none of the buzz and harshness that mics do.
The Hot Spot is actually one of the most critical elements to my rig and totally makes using pedals possible and so much more dynamic. I truly can’t imagine using anything else that connects my sound with my pedals and enables me to have an orchestra of textures and sounds to play with at my fingertips.
Hayes Greenfield is a multi-instrumentalist, electro-acoustic spatial sound and looping artist, composer, educator, activist, and author, who thrives on continually challenging his boundaries. Hayes has earned awards in all but one of his endeavors, released numerous critically acclaimed albums, CD’s, and two short films.
Whether playing in acoustic settings or embracing today's digital spatial technology by processing and recording his saxophone, flute, clarinet, Kalimba and voice through an extensive rig of guitar effects pedal and loopers, Hayes’ music is always personal, in the moment, and filled with rich, musical journeys that draws from his expansive musical history.
“Greenfield, with his alto saxophone and a host of effects at the ready can redecorate a room in a sonic rainbow of musical colors…If touch points of the jazz tradition abound, so do traces of countless other disparate genres and forms; unpredictability is assured.” (Steve Futterman, The New Yorker)
