[image: High Mayhem] High Mayhem Emerging Arts http://highmayhem.org/ * * *PLEASE NOTE THE LOCATION FOR EACH PERFORMANCE* * * * * *Nicole Mitchell and Anthony Davis Duo with iNK oN pAPER * * * * Thursday, May 12 at 7pm* *Outpost* 210 Yale SE, Albuquerque The opening evening of the Creative Soundspace Festival 2011 welcomes flutist/composer Nicole Mitchell in duet with renowned pianist/composer Anthony Davis. Nicole Mitchell has been called “the most important jazz flutist of her generation.” She is the founder of the critically-acclaimed Black Earth Ensemble, the Black Earth Strings, the Ice Crystal Quartet, and Sonic Projections, and was awarded 2010 Jazz Flutist of the Year by the Jazz Journalists Association. She is a former president of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) in Chicago. Anthony Davis has always been known as both a pianist with profound improvisational capabilities (he has performed extensively with Wadada Leo Smith, James Newton, Abdul Wadoud, and Anthony Braxton) as well as a composer of operatic, symphonic, choral, and chamber works having composed five operas including X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X (libretto by Thulani Davis) in 1986. A graduate of Yale University, Davis is currently a professor of music at the University of California, San Diego. Opening the evening will be Santa Fe’s iNK oN pAPER, a drum, bass, and electronics duo which Signal to Noise Magazine described as sounding “… as if drum ‘n’ bass took a detour through an electro-acoustic free-punk Jucifer and had its downbeats addled or partly removed.” Comprising Milton Villarrubia III (drums and laptop) and Carlos Santistevan (bass and electonics) using live samples, midi triggers, live processing and looping, the two perform as a duo in order to explore the possibilities of their respective instruments. They perform in numerous groups and are tireless participants in the High Mayhem Emerging Arts Collective, an important organizer and producing organization of experimental art and sound events in Santa Fe. * * *Rez Abbasi's Invocation Quintet (NYC) ft. Vijay Iyer & Greg Osby with iNK oN pAPER* * * *Sunday, May 15 at 7pm* *O’Shaugnessy Performance Space-Santa Fe University of Art and Design* 1600 Saint Michael's Drive, Santa Fe Born in Karachi, Pakistan, guitarist/composer Rez Abbasi moved to California at the age of four. He was educated at the University of Southern California and the Manhattan School of Music in jazz and classical music, as well as in India under the guidance of master percussionist, Ustad Alla Rakha. Living in NYC for the past 18 years, he has performed worldwide with artists as varied as Ruth Brown, Peter Erskine, Dave Douglas and Pandit Kadri Gopalnath. He is musical director and producer for Indian/Canadian vocalist, Kiran Ahluwalia and plays an integral role in Rudresh Mahanthappa’s Indo-Pak Coalition and Kinsmen groups. The Invocation Quintet will perform The Motherland Suite which draws upon influences from the Pakistani Qawwali musical form— a genre popularized by the late Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. The Quintet features Greg Osby, alto saxophone; Vijay Iyer, piano; Johannes Weidenmueller, bass; and Dan Weiss, drums. *Mark your calendars for the Cloacas CD release on June 4!!!* * *