Jean-Marc Montera is a French

guitarist A guitarist (or a guitar player) is a person who plays the guitar. Guitarists may play a variety of guitar family instruments such as classical guitars, acoustic guitars, electric guitars, and bass guitars. Some guitarists accompany themselve ...

, mainly active in the

experimental music Experimental music is a general label for any music or music genre that pushes existing boundaries and genre definitions. Experimental compositional practice is defined broadly by exploratory sensibilities radically opposed to, and questioning of, ...

scene. Besides being active as a musician, he's also the director of the organisation

GRIM GRIM (Groupe de recherche et d'improvisation musicales, roughly translated Group of Research and Musical Innovation), was a non-profit organization for improvised and experimental music. The GRIM was based at the Montévidéo, a cultural centre in ...

, 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 Jeremy Webster "Fred" Frith (born 17 February 1949) is an English multi-instrumentalist, composer, and improviser. Probably best known for his guitar work, Frith first came to attention as a founding member of the English avant-rock group Henry ...

André Jaume André — sometimes transliterated as Andre — is the French and Portuguese form of the name Andrew and is now also used in the English-speaking world. It used in France, Quebec, Canada and other French-speaking countries, as well in Portugal, ...

Barre Phillips Barre Phillips (October 27, 1934 – December 28, 2024) was an American jazz double bass, bassist. A professional musician since 1960, he moved to New York City in 1962, then to Europe in 1967. From 1972 he was based in southern France, where in ...

Yves Robert Yves Robert (; 19 June 1920 – 10 May 2002) was a French actor, screenwriter, director, and producer. Life and career Robert was born in Saumur, Maine-et-Loire, France. In his teens, he went to Paris to pursue a career in acting, starting w ...

Loren Mazzacane Connors Loren Mazzacane Connors (born October 22, 1949) is an American guitarist who has recorded and performed under several different names: Guitar Roberts, Loren Mazzacane, Loren Mattei, and currently Loren Connors. His music has touched on many genre ...

Thurston Moore Thurston Joseph Moore (born July 25, 1958) is an American guitarist, singer and songwriter best known as a member of the rock band Sonic Youth. He has also participated in many solo and group collaborations outside Sonic Youth, as well as running ...

Lee Ranaldo Lee Mark Ranaldo (born February 3, 1956) is an American guitarist, singer and songwriter, best known as a co-founder of the rock band Sonic Youth. In 2004, ''Rolling Stone'' ranked Ranaldo at number 33 on its "Greatest Guitarists of All Time" li ...

Louis Sclavis Louis Sclavis (born 2 February 1953) is a French jazz musician. He performs on clarinet, bass clarinet, and soprano saxophone in a variety of contexts, including avant-garde jazz, free jazz, free improvisation and contemporary classical. Life ...

, Hifiklub,

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. And in the theater, dance and visual art scenes with people like

Sarah Kane Sarah Kane (3 February 1971 – 20 February 1999) was an English playwright, screenwriter and theatre director. She is known for her plays that deal with themes of redemptive love, sexual desire, pain, torture—both physical and psychological ...

Biljana Srbljanović Biljana Srbljanović ( sr-cyr, Биљана Србљановић, ; born 15 October 1970) is a Serbian playwright and university professor. She has written eleven theater plays and screenplay for ''Otvorena vrata'' television series that aired o ...

, Jean-Claude Berutti,

Odile Duboc Odile Duboc (23 July 1941 in Versailles – 23 April 2010 in Paris) was a French dancer, choreographer and teacher of contemporary dance. From 1990 until 2008, she was the director of the of Franche-Comté in Belfort where she succeeded . She di ...

, 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 Cornelius Cardew (7 May 193613 December 1981) was an English experimental music composer, and founder (with Howard Skempton and Michael Parsons) of the Scratch Orchestra, an experimental performing ensemble. He later rejected experimental mu ...

with

Chris Cutler Chris Cutler (born 4 January 1947) is an English percussionist, composer, lyricist and music theorist. Best known for his work with English avant-rock group Henry Cow, Cutler was also a member and drummer of other bands, including Art Bears, N ...

(ex-

Henry Cow Henry Cow were an English experimental rock group, founded at the University of Cambridge in 1968 by multi-instrumentalists Fred Frith and Tim Hodgkinson. Henry Cow's personnel fluctuated over their decade together, but drummer Chris Cutler, b ...

Thomas Lehn Thomas Lehn (born 1958 in Fröndenberg) is a German piano and synthesizer player active in free improvisation and contemporary music. Lehn has recorded with Marcus Schmickler, Keith Rowe, John Butcher, Phil Minton, Phil Durrant, Radu Malf ...

and

Hélène Breschand Hélène Breschand (born 18 March 1966) is a French harpist, composer and improviser. Breschand leads a career both as a solo artist as well as in ensemble work, playing both a contemporary repertoire and premiering new works as much as she plays ...

. In 2006 he performed in a guitar trio with

Noël Akchoté Noël Akchoté (born 7 December 1968) is a French guitarist in free improvisation, classical, experimental, and free jazz. Career Starting on guitar at when he was eight years old,Philippe Carles, André Clergeat et Jean-Louis Comolli, ''Dictio ...

and Jean-François Pauvros.

Discography (incomplete)

* Naxos (with

und Claudia Phillips), 1987 * Tavagna Group with

and

Rémi Charmasson The Remi were an ancient Belgic tribe. Remi or Rémi may also refer to: People * Georges Prosper Remi (1907–1983), male Belgian comic book writer and artist, better known as "Hergé" * José Vega Santana (born 1958), clown in Puerto Rico know ...

: ''Piazza di Luna'', 1989 *''Unlike'', 1990 * Paolo Daminani Ensemble: ''Song tong'', 1991 *''HumaNoise congress'', 1992 * Christine Wodrascka Quartet: ''Transkei'', 1994 *''Hang Around Shout'', 1995 (live); *

Gianni Gebbia Gianni is an Italian name (occasionally a surname), a short form of the Italian Giovanni and a cognate of John meaning God is gracious. Gianni is the most common diminutive of Giovanni in Italian. People with this given name * Gianni Agnelli (192 ...

, Miriam Palma, Vittorio Villa: ''Terra arsa'', 1996 *''Improvvisazioni Quartetto'' (with Mike Cooper, Mauro Orselli and Eugenio Sanna), 1997 *''Smiles from Jupiter'', Soloalbum, 1998 * King Übü Örchestrü: ''Trigger zone'', 1998 *''MMMR'', 1998 (with Lee Ranaldo, Thurston Moore, Loren Mazzacane Connors); *''NOT'', 1999 (with Érik M and

); *''Smiles From Jupiter'', 2000 *''Roman'', 2004 (with Louis Sclavis);www.fmp-label.de
/ref> * L'Hôtesse (with Sandy Amerio)

Other contributions

and François-Michel Pesenti: '' Helter Skelter'' (1992) *

: '' Stone, Brick, Glass, Wood, Wire'' (1999)

Soundtrack for movie

*2010 : ''

Alter ego An alter ego (Latin for "other I") means an alternate Self (psychology), self, which is believed to be distinct from a person's normal or true original Personality psychology, personality. Finding one's alter ego will require finding one's other ...

'', film by Jérôme Nunes.

Sources and references

bio
on

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External links

Website of GRIM
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