Pleiades + The Bridge
In this edition of the Pleiades series we partner with The Bridge, an exchange program for creative music between France and Chicago. The performance will feature mixed groups of French and Chicago improvisors followed by an open jam for all womxn and nonbinary artists. Email pleiades@elasticarts.org to sign up.
Fanny Lasfargues - electroacoustic bass, electronics
Morgane Carnet - tenor & baritone saxophones
Macie Stewart - violin, voice
Single Room ( Emilie Lesbros - voice + Rafaelle Rinaudo - harp, electronics)
Sarah Clausen - saxophones
The Bridge is supported by Ministère de la Culture, Sacem, Centre National de la Musique, Spedidam, Adami and Institut Français.
The Bridge #2.04 has been made possible through Jazz & New Music, a program of Villa Albertine and FACE Foundation, in partnership with the French Embassy in the United States with support from the French Ministry of Culture, Institut français, SACEM (Société des auteurs, compositeurs et éditeurs de musique) and the CNM (Centre National de la Musique).
$15
Artist Bios
Fanny Lasfargues - electroacoustic bass, electronics
Double bass player - bassist - improviser, graduate of the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris (jazz and improvised music department), transforms her instrument with a lot of small objects and a whole range of electronic treatments.
She goes from minimal improvisation to powerful rock-noise sounds through grooves with hiphop connotations, and experiments on stage with numerous musical encounters with Noel Akchoté, Sophie Agnel, Jérôme Noetinger, Akosh S...
Morgane Carnet - tenor & barytone saxophones
Saxophone player, clarinet player and singer, she co-leads and plays in various projects such as Qonicho Ah! and Qonicho D!, Fantôme (currently on tour with Jazz Migration), Selen Peacock, Vattelappesca and Volt. She is part of the collective 2035 (free jazz and contemporary music). She regularly replaces in Supernatural Orchestra. She has also been heard in the trio Infernale Momus, the ensemble Futura Experience (with Jean-Francois Pauvros, Sylvain Kassap, Michel Edelin, Sophia Domancich, among others), in Healing Orchestra, a project of Paul Wacrenier, the ARBF (ensemble directed by Yoram Rosilio) and also in the ensemble Bibendum (Big Band from Caen).
Macie Stewart - violin, voice
Macie Stewart (she/her/they/them) is a multi-instrumentalist, composer/arranger, songwriter, and improviser based in Chicago, IL who Downbeat Magazine calls “a master of equilibrium.” Stewart began her musical career at the age of 3. Learning piano while she learned to talk, she discovered two foundational modes of communication at once. As the daughter of a career musician (pianist Sami Scot), Stewart was encouraged to explore the piano and violin, and she became proficient on both instruments. After helping to found the Chicago bands Kids These Days and Marrow, Stewart broadened her interests and spent time in the avant-garde jazz scene, performing regularly at Chicago institutions Constellation and The Hungry Brain. It was in that scene Stewart distinguished herself as a go-to collaborator, co-founding the band OHMME (with Sima Cunningham) and performing and improvising with Ken Vandermark’s Marker ensemble, the improvised act The Few (with guitar player Steve Marquette and bassist Charlie Kirchen) and the violin/cello duo Macie Stewart & Lia Kohl. Stewart has also spent years working as a string arranger, drawing on her varied background in classical, jazz, and Irish folk music to create unique arrangements for artists such as the band Whitney, SZA, V.V. Lightbody, Knox Fortune, and many others.
Emilie Lesbros - voice
Rafaelle Rinaudo - harp, electronics
Single Room is a journey through a world of their own, a music where violence turns into poetry, melancholy is only a distant idea, a lullaby that speeds up and brings you to a place where you just have to let yourself be carried, an incredible reality lost between the aquatic world and the one of a star, a bit of fairy just disconcerting!