Back in Paris, where I’ve been working on a new guitar piece; it’s a kind of “daughter of Guitar Trio”. When I played in Bourges last spring I remembered how much I enjoy playing with a rock drummer and electric guitarists, so we did some rehearsals here in Paris at Studios Campus (near La Bastille) and hope to have the new ensemble piece ready for the spring.
In the meantime, I’ve completed the initial work on my new solo and I plan to test it out at an opening of the artist Isabelle Forestier November in the context of an exhibition of her work, which will be open to the public from 25 October to 12 November.
There will be a closing party on Thursday, 10 November from 6 to 9pm. I’ll be playing my new solo at 7:30pm. If you are in the Paris area by all means drop by. The closing party is open to the public.
Here is the poster for the exhibition, with more details given below:
Heures d’ouverture :
En temps de vacances scolaire :
mardi 25 octobre jusqu’à 19h30
Mercredi 26 octobre de 10h à 13h et de 15h30 à 19h30
Jeudi 27 et Vendredi 28 octobre de 10h à 19h30
Lundi 31 de 10h à 18h
Du mercredi 2 novembre au vendredi 4 de 10h à 19h30
Fermé le samedi
En période scolaire :
Lundi de 14h à 22h
Du mardi au vendredi de 10h à 22h
Samedi 12 novembre de 10h à 17h (jour du décrochage effectif)
Fermé les jours fériés.
PARIS ANIM’
Centre Richard Wright
76 bis rue de Rennes
75006 Paris
Summer 2022
As always, I am doing my yearly migration to the south of France in a little hamlet in the Pyrenees, not far from Perpignan. I have my music studio set up, where I work amoung the mountains, trees and dramatic sky!
I have been working on a new solo for live instruments and electronics. Here is a seven minute piece I made here recently for trumpet:
This new solo program can be anywhere from 20-minutes to an hour of music and optional visual elements, featuring me playing electric guitar, trumpet, flutes and live electronics..
Here is a quick sample of the guitar sound I’m currently working on in the context of the new solo:
If you are interested in booking the new solo (or any of my other projects), you can contact me directly here. Or at my booking agency, Julie Tippex Arts and Music.
Spring 2022
Playing G3 on Friday, 20 May 2022 in Bourges, France at the Nadir venue, Friche Antre Peaux, 9pm. I’ll open the set with my new solo.
- Electric guitars:
- Elliot Barthez
- Tara Clamart
- Sandro Demay
- Jérôme Joy
- Axell Juranville
- Félix Patte
- Guillaume Petton
- Jon Haure-Placé
- Michèle Santoyo
- Rhys Chatham
- Electric bass : Fabien Alidor
- Drums: Guillaume Zemouche
- Lights and video : lights and the videos: Quentin Valverde, Ianis Lourdin, Mathis.
Rhys Chatham & David Fenech / Martin Siewert & Christian Reiner at Liccht
Venue : Replugged – Lerchenfelder Str. 23 – 1070 Wien
Thursday, 12 May – concert starts at 8pm.
Tickets: Click here
Rhys Chatham is a composer, guitarist, trumpet player and flutist from Manhattan, currently living in Paris, who altered the DNA of rock and created a new type of urban music by fusing the overtone-drenched minimalism of the early 60s with the relentless, elemental fury of the Ramones — the textural intricacies of the avant-garde colliding with the visceral punch of electric guitar-slinging punk rock. He was introduced to electronic music and composition by Morton Subotnick in the late 60s, and in the early seventies he studied composition with La Monte Young and played in Tony Conrad’s early group. These composers are, along with Terry Riley, the founders of American minimalism and were a profound influence on Chatham’s work.
Starting with Guitar Trio in the 1970s and culminating with A Crimson Grail for 200 electric guitars in 2009, Chatham has been working for over 30 years to make use of armies of electric guitars in special tunings to merge the extended-time music of the sixties and seventies with serious hard rock. Parallel with his rock-influenced pieces, Chatham has been working with various brass configurations since 1982, and recently has developed a completely new approach to collaborations, improvised and compositional pieces involving trumpet through performances and recordings that started in 2009.
David Fenech is an active composer, performer, and improviser from Paris. His works include acoustic, electronic, tape, and digital media, including sound installations and film scores.
After creating the musical collective Peu Importe in Grenoble in 1991 (free improvisation and songs – many gigs in Europe) his music has shifted to more personal and strange areas, mainly using voice as an instrument. He released his first solo cd called Grand Huit, in 2000. The record is like a long movie for the ears, with 8 different clips. This album is now re-released on Felix Kubin’s Gagarin label.
As a soloist, David Fenech plays guitar and ukulele as well as small instruments such as melodica, cavaquinho, toy piano and xylophone. He played with musicians such as rhys chatham, berangere maximin, james plotkin (old, khanate), felix kubin, jad fair, tom cora, gino robair, ramona cordova, erikm + llog, sebastien roux, claude parle, christian rollet (a.r.f.i, workshop de lyon), andrea parkins, and with members of madrid, moka, les enfants des autres, x ray pop, art moulu, maisie, le club des chats, vincent epplay, sporto kantes and also with herve zenouda, mr quark, shugo tokumaru, anja kirschner, ghedalia tazartes + jac berrocal, digiki, toog, daniel palomo vinuesa, falter bramnk, imagho, dragibus and many others. https://davidfenech.fr
Martin Siewert ist ein deutscher Jazz- und Improvisationsmusiker (Gitarre, Elektronik) und Filmkomponist. Er lebt seit dem Alter von zehn Jahren in Wien. Er studierte Gitarre an der Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Graz. Als Gitarrist begann er um das Jahr 1995 öffentlich aufzutreten, zunächst mit Herwig Gradischnig, Freier Fall, Franz Hautzinger und seiner eigenen Band Duckbilled Platypus. Mit dieser Band veröffentlichte er zwei Alben auf Extraplatte. Ungefähr zur gleichen Zeit wie andere Wiener Musiker auch (etwa Boris Hauf, Dieb13, Hautzinger, Werner Dafeldecker oder Helge Hinteregger) begann er sich vom Jazzidiom zu lösen und entwickelte einen abstrakten Sound auf der Gitarre. Bald gehörte er zu den Gruppen Efzeg (mit Burkhard Stangl und Hauf) und Komfort, in die er Dafeldecker, Hinteregger, Wayne Horvitz und Tony Buck einlud. In der Gruppe Trapist spielte er mit Joe Williamson und Martin Brandlmayr zusammen. Mit Christian Reiner erscheint im Mai das Album Erstens, das an diesem Abend zum ersten Mal live präsentiert wird.
Christian Reiner ist Sprecher von Gedichten, Prosa und experimentellen Texten.Solo und in unterschiedlichen Formationen arbeitet er an Hörstücken, Theaterprojekten, Lesungen, Konzerten und CD-Einspielungen. Seine Arbeiten sind meist im Zwischenbereich von Sprache und Musik zu finden. Mit improvisierenden Musikern und Tänzern kooperiert er seit Mitte der 90er Jahre und entwickelte seine ihm eigene Art und Weise, mit gesprochenem Wort und den Möglichkeiten der menschlichen Stimme zu improvisieren. In unterschiedlichen Formationen und Ensembles, präsentiert er seine Arbeiten auf Festivals, bei Gastspielen und Konzerten.Doors: 20.00
Reiner Siewert: 20.15
Chatham Fenech: 21.15
Winter 2022
More concerts got cancelled due to Covid and related uncertainty. Happily, I’m doing a collaboration with composer/guitarist David Fenech, which we decided to schedule for next May in hopes that the pandemic restrictions will have eased by then.
The concert will be on May 12th in May, I’ll release the details soon.
In the meantime, a beautiful video of the concert we did at the BBMix Festival at Carré Bell-Feuille in Boulogne-Billancourt, was made by Bruno Gestin and Ben Lx.
Boulogne-Billancourt is a close suburb of paris, on the métro line, with a great theatre and performance space, which you will see in the video.
The performance was of G3, here is a list of the players:
Live at Carré Belle-Feuille, Festival BBmix, Boulogne-Billancourt, France. 11/27/2021. L’ orchestre de guitares de Rhys Chatham :
- Rhys Chatham, guitare
- Jean-François Pauvros, guitare
- Nico Guerrero, guitare
- Tatiana Paris, guitare
- Maxime Delpierre, guitare
- Lou Garcia, guitare
- Myriam Stamoulis, basse
- Kam Raulet, batterie
- Jérôme Vassereau & Julien Sénélas, synthétiseurs analogiques
- Live Image projection : Pictures for Music by Robert Longo
Réalisation : Bruno Gestin
Cameras: Bruno Gestin et Ben Lx
Winter 2022
More concerts got cancelled due to Covid and related uncertainty. Happily, I’m doing a collaboration with composer/guitarist David Fenech, which we decided to schedule for next May in hopes that the pandemic restrictions will have eased by then.
The concert will be on May 12th in May, I’ll release the details soon.
In the meantime, a beautiful video of the concert we did at the BBMix Festival at Carré Bell-Feuille in Boulogne-Billancourt, was made by Bruno Gestin and Ben Lx.
Boulogne-Billancourt is a close suburb of paris, on the métro line, with a great theatre and performance space, which you will see in the video.
The performance was of G3, here is a list of the players:
Live at Carré Belle-Feuille, Festival BBmix, Boulogne-Billancourt, France. 11/27/2021. L’ orchestre de guitares de Rhys Chatham :
- Rhys Chatham, guitare
- Jean-François Pauvros, guitare
- Nico Guerrero, guitare
- Tatiana Paris, guitare
- Maxime Delpierre, guitare
- Lou Garcia, guitare
- Myriam Stamoulis, basse
- Kam Raulet, batterie
- Jérôme Vassereau & Julien Sénélas, synthétiseurs analogiques
- Live Image projection : Pictures for Music by Robert Longo
Réalisation : Bruno Gestin
Cameras: Bruno Gestin et Ben Lx
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