Lautaro Mantilla with Jolee Gordon & John MacDonald – Non-Event At Home: Program 89
LAUTARO MANTILLA with JOLEE GORDON and JOHN MacDONALD
Sistema: For voice, drums, guitar, radio, music boxes, and noise generators.
Waterworks Session
Non-Event At Home: Program 89
Friday, August 6, 2021 at 8pm
a/v premiere | YouTube
YouTube Link
About the project
Sistema is a three-movement piece that explores a group of interacting or interrelated elements that act according to a set of rules to form a unified whole. A system, surrounded and influenced by its environment, is described by its boundaries, structure, and purpose and expressed in its functioning.
I. Maquinar is a journey inside factory workers’ minds and the internal struggle to maintain sanity within monotonous and oppressive conditions.
II. Corriente (AGUA – MAQUINA – OPERADOR) presents the interaction between water, machines, and operators in a water supply system. The text used in this movement is written as a series of sound poems based on haiku about water.
III. Máquina is a commentary on factory workers’ labor and the attempt to maintain sanity within monotonous and oppressive conditions.
About the Artists
LAUTARO MANTILLA is a guitarist, composer, and improviser from Bogota, Colombia. He recently graduated from New England Conservatory (NEC) receiving a Doctorate in Composition / Contemporary Improvisation. Based in Boston, Mantilla is an active musician from the NY and Boston music scenes as well as a faculty member of the Contemporary Improvisation department at NEC, where he co-produces the departmental concerts, teaches Ensembles and Studio Lessons, in addition to serving as Chair of Contemporary Improvisation Preparatory School and Continuing Education.
JOLEE GORDON is a songwriter, improviser, vocalist, and multi-instrumentalist. Born and raised in NYC, she has a unique sound that draws on various styles of music. She graduated from New England Conservatory’s jazz department in 2020. She is a member of multiple bands, including the songwriting duo ‘Houndsteeth’, the avant-rock band ‘Queen Crony’, the experimental vocal trio ‘Chatterbox’, and the pop duo ‘Tr0ut’. She will be based in Los Angeles come September, where she will continue her education at Cal Arts.
JOHN MACDONALD is a drummer, producer, and writer from Indianapolis, Indiana. While completing his undergraduate and master's degrees at Berklee and New England Conservatory respectively, he performed and recorded regularly with local bands and artists (Trøx, Infinite Ways, The Symptoms, Abraham, Dave Fiuczynski). Since graduating, he has composed interactive soundtracks for several indie video games and written/published several articles on jazz improvisation.
Voice (AGUA): Jolee Gordon
Drums (OPERATOR 1): John MacDonald
Drums assistant (OPERATOR 2): Jerry MacDonald
Guitar/TV box/Voice/Noise generator/Radio (MAQUINA): Lautaro Mantilla
Composer: Lautaro Mantilla
Video editing: Grace Wilson & Lautaro Mantilla
Sound Recording: Jerry MacDonald & Kevin Micka
Sound mix: Kevin Micka
Cameras: Nathan Saucier, Benny Shaffer, Wenhua Shi
This program is made possible with the support of the Massachusetts Cultural Council.
