and Ritsu Katsumata
Monday, December 16, 2013
Monday, April 15, 2013
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Saturday, September 22, 2012
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Great Lakes Ensemble @ Mexicains Sans Frontieres Aug 25th 8 PM
Great Lakes Ensemble
The Great Lakes Ensemble is an interdisciplinary artistic exploration of the Great Lakes region—its people, culture, history and aesthetics. The ensemble’s work involves collaborations with dance and music, and also includes other artistic elements such as text and projected images. The Great Lakes Ensemble has performed at festivals, in museum and art gallery settings, and site- specific locations such as an outdoor sculpture park.
The Great Lakes Ensemble is developing an ongoing series of programs that is driven by rigorous aesthetic inquiry and expression, as well as research into aspects of this region’s identity that includes the intersections of nature and humanity, its industrial past and present, oral histories, and ways by which its people and locales are imagining how to reinvent themselves as the 21st Century moves forward.
GLE’s dance and choreography, under Lisa LaMarre’s direction, manifests a combination of lyrical spryness and fluid athleticism. The ensemble’s musicians develop sonic textures that explore aspects of the Great Lakes’ dramatic past and present—from the tranquility of a finger lake at dawn, to hulking abandoned factories and the bustle of Chicago’s urban din, to a sonic imagining of glaciers’ southerly movements 16,000 years ago. GLE’s horns and rhythm section can stretch into a languid mode or bust into a densely pointillistic segment, and then change directions again as a performance develops.
GLE uses projected images in its performances—including photographs, paintings, and images from bathymetric maps. Sometimes projections appear on flat surfaces such as video screens or walls, and at other times projections land on uneven surfaces or onto dancers’ bodies in motion. Projected images onto transparent vessels filled with water create a prismatic effect that throws refracted, undulating images across the room.
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Thursday, May 10, 2012
Monday, May 7, 2012
Monday, February 20, 2012
Stephen Rush Trio/ Naked Dance Feb 25
Stephen Rush Trio
8 p.m. Saturday
Mexicains Sans Frontieres (Grand Rapids)
$10 adults, $5 students
Pianist-composer Stephen Rush from the University of Michigan last year sent me a snazzy vinyl copy of his “Naked Dance!” album recorded with percussionist Jeremy Edwards and clarinet whiz Andrew Bishop, and I was immediately blown away. This is experimental jazz at its best with an infectious glow. Rush, Edwards and Bishop will perform in this intimate venue at 120 S. Division Ave. on Saturday, part of a mini-tour of sorts that will also take them to Wisconsin on Sunday. (You can also catch them on the air at 10 p.m. Friday on Blue Lake Public Radio, 90.3 FM)
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Federico Ughi and Adam Cain Oct 28 WSG CAngue League
ADAM CAINE AND FEDERICO UGHI
US TOUR 2011Avant garde guitar and drums duo from NYC will tour the country in October and November 2011. This is a collaboration of two NYC players that have a long history in the creative music community of New York. Focusing on dynamics, pulse and textures this project will bring their NYC sound from the East coast to New Mexico.
Calendar
OCT 27 Pittsburg, PA @ Garfield Artworks 8pm www.garfieldartworks.com
OCT 28 Grand Rapids, MI @ Mexicains Sans Frontieres hugo-claudin.blogspot.com
OCT 29 Chicago, IL (w/ Dan Godston trp) @ Brown Rice www.brownricemusic.org
OCT 30 Chicago, IL @ Hungry Brain umbrellamusic.org
NOV 1 Denver, CO @ West Side Books www.westsidebooks.com
NOV 3 Albuquerque, NM KUNM 89.9FM kunm.org Live Radio Show 1pm
NOV 3 Albuquerque, NM The Projects 3614 High St NE
Adam Caine
www.caine.tv
A guitarist, improvisor and composer, Adam Caine plays primarily jazz and experimental music but has a background in diverse styles from blues to metal to electronic music. Adam fronts the Adam Caine Trio with Tom Blancarte and John Wagner and plays in Eric Eigner's Mysterium and Josh Myer's Big Words.
Adam grew up in Rochester, New York and studied music at the University of Rochester. Since 2000 he has lived in Brooklyn, New York and has played in New York City and throughout the United States. Adam has performed with Connie Crothers, Paul Smoker, Daniel Carter, Ken Filiano, Phil Haynes, Glen Branca, Haale, and the New York Soundpainting Ensemble.
Adam's trio CD's "Thousandfold" (NoBusiness Records, 2009) and "Pipe" (TrueFalse, 2005) received rave reviews in the Wire, Cadence, and All About Jazz. In 2008, Adam was awarded a grant from the Brooklyn Arts council for an improvised performance with visual artist Marjan Moghaddam. As a composer for video art, Adam's music has been featured in over 20 international festivals since 2006.
Federico Ughi
www.federicoughi.com
"Federico Ughi is characteristically splendid, his drums serving as much more than a rhythmic undercurrent..." Cadence Magazine
Federico Ughi is a drummer and composer based in New York.
Federico Ughi's music infuses the New York avant garde sound with a sense of melody inspired by the Italian classical and folk traditions of his childhood in Rome. Ornette Coleman has been a major influence for Federico as well as a mentor.
Born in Rome, Italy Federico relocated to London at age 21 to play music, from there moving to New York in 2000 again to play music. He has been based in Brooklyn, NY ever since.
He has performed or recorded with Daniel Carter, William Parker, Darius Jones, The Cinematic Orchestra among others. Federico Ughi has perfomed throughout Italy, the UK, Holland, Belgium, Denmark, Slovenia, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, Austria, Canada and the US.
"Ughi seems less concerned with the usual strategies of Free Jazz, although much of what he writes falls in that genre, than with the integration of improvisation and composition in a seamless unit that meshes melodic abstraction with sophisticated writing." All Music
Saturday, September 24, 2011
Friday, September 23, 2011
Thursday, August 25, 2011
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
Xenia Rubinos Aug 7th
Brooklyn based Xenia Rubinos comes to Grand Rapids to Mexicains Sans Frontieres
Aug 7th at 7 PM
http://xeniarubinos.com/bio/Xenia
Sunday, July 10, 2011
Sunday, June 12, 2011
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
What is your Art?
Short article about Mexicains Sans Frontieres and Women on the Verge of Kicking Your Ass
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