Jean-Marc Montera

Jean-Marc Montera is a French guitarist, mainly active in the experimental music scene. Besides being active as a musician, he's also the director of the organisation GRIM, that organises concerts, festivals, workshops and artist in residence projects in Marseille.

Montera is active as a player since the 70s and has done collaborations with artists like Fred Frith, , Barre Phillips, Yves Robert, Loren Mazzacane Connors, Thurston Moore, Lee Ranaldo, Louis Sclavis, Hifiklub, . And in the theater, dance and visual art scenes with people like Sarah Kane, Biljana Srbljanović, , Odile Duboc, Sandy Amerio. In 1978 he raised the organisation GRIM (Groupe de recherche et d'improvisation musicales, roughly translated: Group of Search and Musical Improvisation) of which is the director up until present time.

In 2001 he started an ensemble Treatise de Cornelius Cardew with Chris Cutler (ex-Henry Cow), Thomas Lehn and Hélène Breschand. In 2006 he performed in a guitar trio with Noël Akchoté and .

Discography (incomplete)[]

• Naxos (with Barre Phillips und ), 1987
• Tavagna Group with and : Piazza di Luna, 1989
• Unlike, 1990
• Ensemble: Song tong, 1991
• HumaNoise congress, 1992
• Quartet: Transkei, 1994
• Hang Around Shout, 1995 (live);^[1]
• , , : Terra arsa, 1996
• Improvvisazioni Quartetto (with Mike Cooper, and ), 1997
• Smiles from Jupiter, Soloalbum, 1998
• King Übü Örchestrü: Trigger zone, 1998
• MMMR, 1998 (with Lee Ranaldo, Thurston Moore, Loren Mazzacane Connors);^[2]
• NOT, 1999 (with and );^[3]
• Smiles From Jupiter, 2000^[4]
• Roman, 2004 (with Louis Sclavis);^[5]
• L'Hôtesse (with Sandy Amerio)

Other contributions[]

• Fred Frith and François-Michel Pesenti: Helter Skelter (1992)
• Fred Frith: Stone, Brick, Glass, Wood, Wire (1999)

Soundtrack for movie[]

• 2010 : , film by .

Sources and references[]

• bio on Allmusic

External links[]

• Website of GRIM