with OLIVIER MARBOEUF 
moderated by MAX JORGE HINDERER CRUZ 

Olivier Marboeuf is an artist, poet, curator, and producer, whose recent work with audio and soundscapes is centered around the “politics of frequency.” Marboeuf, whose biography and research interests are largely connected with the Caribbean, confronts us with what he calls the “dimensions of sonic resistance” of the communities of the African diaspora. For our understanding of this dimension of sonic resistance, listening and un-listening are just as pivotal as speaking and de-speaking. In his audio essay he will examine the act of speech as well as collective speaking and listening – essentially, the possibility and impossibility of speaking and listening. 

Politics of Frequencies is the first step of an artistic research around Creole conversation as a cacophonic listening space that translates the paradoxical situation of a need to speak while protecting one's word, to speak in ‘de-speaking’. And thus, to produce a sense in a collective gesture of repetition, accumulation and saturation. A sense that calls for presence and remains inaccessible and opaque for those who want to stay away. A sense that requires both the ear and the mouth to travel in the entanglement of the voices and the hospitality of the frequencies. 

Learning to Listen is a podcast format that explores different forms of listening – both listening and not listening – and the knowledge that can be drawn from them. The focus is on learning and unlearning to listen and engaging with internalized mindsets. The main aim of Learning to Listen is to initiate didactic processes intended to help us understand why certain sounds, songs, and narratives are heard and others are not, and to interweave auditory events with anti/decolonial education. The individual episodes are conceived as heterogeneous audio essays; the invited guests have free rein over their concept and realization. 

Language: English 
Available at Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud and Spotify 

Recorded between August and September 2021 in Port-au-Prince (Haïti) and Saint-Denis (France). 

Concept: OLIVIER MARBOEUF
Texts and Lectures: ROSSI JACQUES CASIMIR, OLIVIER MARBOEUF
With Voices of: SHELO FRANCOIS (PLEB MIZIK), STEEVE PIERRE LOUIS, DARENS JABOUIN, JEFF RON, ALAN SANDARSEN (JUSTICE), DAVID AND JAMES PETER ÉTIENNE (MIMETIK NEG)
Translation: LIZ YOUNG
Sound: VICTOR DONATI

LEARNING TO LISTEN #3 | English, French, Haitian Creole

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“Devin Gray is a polymath: inventive drummer, intrepid composer, chief of a burgeoning record label. Gray continues his ascension with ‘Melt All the Guns’… The title might suggest a recording where frustrations boil over into blurts and squeals. In fact, it’s just the opposite. The protest music that the trio makes is akin to meditative paintings, vivid in scope with microscopic-level attention to detail.” — Brad Cohan / JazzTimes on the debut Melt All the Guns EP

Devin Gray — doubly based in the dynamic, divergent artistic hubs of Brooklyn and Berlin — has made a name for himself over the past decade-plus as a drummer and composer of textural ingenuity, lithe groove and uncommon energy. He has led multiple bands in the studio and on the road, prime among them Dirigo Rataplan (featuring him alongside veteran luminaries Dave Ballou on trumpet, Ellery Eskelin on saxophone & Michael Formanek on double-bass) and Relative Resonance (with standout saxophonist Chris Speed, pianist Kris Davis & bassist Chris Tordini). Behind his solo album Most Definitely, Gray has also toured on both sides of the Atlantic playing unaccompanied drum shows of indefatigable imagination, with All About Jazz calling him “an amazing percussionist.” Another of Gray’s key bands is Melt All the Guns, a trio project that first released an eponymous EP in 2021, with the group’s name reflecting the frustration that so many have felt over the seemingly endless gun violence in the United States. Still, Gray experienced online pushback from gun enthusiasts from just the band name alone. Yet, as noted by actual jazz critics both in Europe and the U.S., this trio’s music isn’t shrill, nor is it depressed; rather, it’s a subtle, intrinsic kind of protest music that resonates with the love of life, full of color, spirit and invention.

Gray and virtuoso American trumpeter Ralph Alessi were complemented on the first release by top New York pianist Angelica Sanchez. For the full-length Melt All the Guns II — to be released via the drummer’s Rataplan Records digitally and on CD on Oct. 4, 2024 — Gray and Alessi are joined by a French pianist who might be a new name to many jazz fans: Myslaure Augustin (with her first name pronounced “Meez-Lor”). From hard-grooving opener “East Berlin 2024” to ruminative, balladic highlight “No More Walls,” the album’s performances brim with melodic hooks and rhythmic pull. Beyond the socio-political stance of the group’s name and some of its song titles (whether “More Meritocracy” or “Audre Lorde Straße” which is named for a Berlin street that recognizes an American poet, feminist and civil-rights activist), the sensibility of this trio is “all about positivity, with the idea of exploring and sharing,” Gray explains. “Wordless music is more or less abstract, and the band name and song titles are just small, common-sense gestures, of course. But I think it’s important to show that you have the courage of your convictions.”

Inspired by iconic drummer-leaders from Art Blakey and Tony Williams to Jim Black and John Hollenbeck, Gray is “a musician-drummer rather than a drummer-drummer,” as the UK’s Jazzwise magazine pointed out. He’s “interested in making music that is deeply evocative... shaped by a fizzing, often restless push-pull energy.” Gray has continually honed his knack for convening bands and composing pieces that inspire improvisers on stage and in the studio.Reflecting on the chance for a progressive-jazz trio recording to turn a few heads nowadays, Gray concludes: “In a world ever-more consumed with social media and AI, this music is something truly handmade, an artisanal, human creation. We still need these things to wake us up, aesthetically and culturally, heart and mind.”

Devin Gray’s Melt All the Guns II
Ralph Alessi - trumpet (USA)
Myslaure Augustin - piano (FR)
Devin Gray - drums/composition (USA)

Thank you for listening!

Melt All the Guns II

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