Jean-Marc Montera

Jean -Marc Montera is a French jazz and avant-garde guitarist.

Life and work

Montera is active since the 1970s as a soloist, band member and band leader. In 1978 he founded the Groupe de Reserche et d' Improvisation Musicales ( GRIM ), an association of musicians and music producers in Marseille. He was a member of groups of André Jaume. Since 1993 he was a member of the quintet F.D.T.C. ( with Edmond Hosdikian, Fred Giuliani, Jean Michel Bourroux and Makoto Yabuki ); He also played in the group Attila ( with Jim Meneses and Gianni Gebbia ) and a duet with Dominique Regef. At concerts and festivals he has performed with musicians such as Jaume, Barre Phillips, Yves Robert, Henry Lowther, Paul Lovens, Fredy Studer, Hans Reichel, Keith Rowe, Chris Cutler, David Moss, Günter Müller, Loren Mazzacane Connors, Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo on. He leads a jazz quartet with Fred Galiay, Tony Buck and Jean -François Pauvros and a trio with Jean -François Noël Pauvros and Akchoté.

With Fred Frith Montera led to its rock opera Helter Skelter. The Berliner Ensemble, directed by Peter Palitzsch led to his setting of Odon von Horvath piece of faith, hope, love. Under the direction of Jean -Claude Berrutti The wards were guardian will be performed by Peter Handke and the case of Biljana Srbljanovic in his setting. As of 1999, performances of plays such as The ceremony ( by Witold Gombrowicz ), Nouvelle Vague and La Fin de l' amour ( by Christine Angot ), Ces objets qui aimes d habitude ne pas parlent ( Colas ) were created in collaboration with director Hubert Colas and Cleansed (of Sarah Kane ).

In addition, he composed and played the music for a number of short films and documentaries and has been working since 1999 with the dance company SCALES. With the dancers Michelle Ricozzi and Giovanna Velardi and the sculptor Patrick Laffont he realized a number of multimedia projects, as Le plongeon you voimekoi and Walkabout Stalk Festival DanseM in Marseille and Envahi (r) and course ascensionnels at the Festival of Torcy. In 2002, he realized with choreographer Odile Duboc the piece J'ai mis du sables Expres, vite fait comme ça dans mes chaussures.

In 2001, Montera with Hans Koch, Thomas Lehn, Hélène Breschand, Dan Vandewalle, Lelio Giannetto and Chris Cutler Ensemble d' Improvisateurs Européens. This is dedicated to the interpretation of works in graphic notation, and led, among other things Cornelius Cardew's Treatise on composition.

Discography

  • Tavagna Group with André Jaume and Rémi Charmasson: Piazza di Luna, 1989
  • Unlike 1990
  • Barre Philips, Claudia Phillips, Hervé Bourde: Naxos, 1987-90
  • Paolo Daminani Ensemble: Song tong, 1991
  • HumaNoise congress, 1992
  • Christine Wodrascka Quartet: Transkei, 1994
  • Hang around shout, 1993/94
  • Fred Frith large group: Stone, brick, glass, wood, wire, 1994
  • Bits and pieces by Wolfgang Fuchs, 1995
  • Gianni Gebbia, Miriam Palma, Vittorio Villa Terra arsa, 1996
  • Improvvisazioni Quartetto ( with Mike Cooper, Mauro Orselli and Eugenio Sanna ), 1997
  • Smiles from Jupiter, solo album, 1998
  • King Übü Örchestrü: trigger zone, 1998
  • Michel Doneda, Eric M, Jean -Marc Montera: Emergency, 1999
  • Roman ( with Louis Sclavis ), 2003
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