Chacon/Nakatani/Santistevan Trio - Monday, December 20th in Albuquerque!

[High Mayhem Newsletter]

First Ever Live Performance of the Chacon/Nakantani/Santistevan Trio

Monday December 20, 2021 7:30 pm
3808 Carlisle Blvd, Albuquerque NM 87107

$10-20 suggested donation, no one turned away

In September 2020 – Raven Chacon, Tatsuya Nakatani, and Carlos 
Santistevan got together and recorded an improvisation set from San 
Miguel Chapel for the High Zero Festival 2020- online edition. It was a 
great time.

Shortly afterwords, Other Minds contacted us wanting to put out an LP 
and sent us back into the Chapel to record an LP. The LP is due to 
arrive in Spring 2022 via Other Minds.

This with be the 3rd meeting of this Trio and the first public 
performance. Come join us at ABQ Apotheosis – a new space for creative 
music.

Raven Chacon – electronics, guitar

Raven Chacon is a composer, performer and installation artist from Fort 
Defiance, Navajo Nation. Collaborations include KILT with Bob Bellerue 
and Sandor Finta, Endlings with John Dieterich, Mesa Ritual with William 
Fowler Collins, an ongoing duo with Laura Ortman, previous membership in 
the artist collective Postcommodity, and as co-conductor of the massive 
New Mexican ensemble Death Convention Singers. Every year, he teaches 20 
students to write string quartets for the Native American Composer 
Apprenticeship Project (NACAP). He is the recipient of the United States 
Artists fellowship in Music, The Creative Capital award in Visual Arts, 
and the American Academy’s Berlin Prize for Music Composition. Chacon 
operates the Sicksicksick/Sssk label out of his home in Albuquerque, NM

spiderwebsinthesky.com

Tatsuya Nakatani – extended percussion

Tatsuya Nakatani is an avant-garde percussionist, composer, and artist 
of sound. Active internationally since the 1990’s; Nakatani has released 
over 80 recordings and tours extensively, performing over 150 concerts a 
year. His primary focus is his solo work and his large ensemble project, 
the Nakatani Gong Orchestra. With his activity in the new music, 
improvisation and experimental music scenes, Nakatani has a long history 
of collaboration. He teaches master classes and lectures at universities 
and music conservatories around the world. Originally from Japan, he 
makes his home in the desert town of Truth or Consequences, New Mexico.

Nakatani creates his distinctive music centered around his adapted bowed 
gong, supported by an array of drums, cymbals, and singing bowls. In 
consort with his hand carved Kobo Bows, it is an instrument he has spent 
decades developing. Nakatani approaches his orchestral project (NGO) as 
an arrangement of formations of vibrations, incorporated in shimmering 
layers of silence and texture. Within this contemporary work, one can 
still recognize the dramatic pacing, formal elegance and space (ma) felt 
in traditional Japanese music.

tatsuyanakatani.com

Carlos Santistevan – upright bass, electronics

Carlos Santistevan is a musician, sounds engineer, and organizer. Since 
2001 he has helped establish an oasis of creative music in the high 
desert southwest as the director of the High Mayhem Emerging Arts 
collective based out of Santa Fe, NM. Using an upright bass and 
electronics he creates soundscapes and spontaneous compositions from the 
extremes of acoustic and electric music. Early influences of punk rock 
and free jazz have led him to develop a unique approach to music and 
improvisation. He has performed at venues such as The Stone, The Outpost 
Performance Space, High Zero Festival, Outsound Creative Music Festival, 
The Olympia Experimental Music Festival, High Mayhem Festival and more 
performing with such artists as: Marshall Trammell, Laura Ortman, Roscoe 
Mitchell, Chris Jonas, J.A. Dino Deane, Henry Grimes, Nicole Mitchell 
and more. Carlos is a seasoned improviser and a member of diverse 
ensembles such as In Defense of Memory, iNK oN pAPER, The Late Severa 
Wires, Out of Context, Black Iron Trio, Taiji Pole and more.

highmayhem.org

https://highmayhem.org/event-details/chacon-nakatani-santistevan-trio/

-- 
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: flyer copy.jpg
Type: image/jpeg
Size: 1545983 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://lists.highmayhem.org/pipermail/newsletter-highmayhem.org/attachments/20211214/e32cebcc/attachment.jpg>