Following his performance of Warrior Ethos on October 4th at 259 Lake Shore, Marshall Trammell will conduct an Insurgent Learning Workshop (ILW) as community engagement, an open rehearsal re-designating the array of Underground Railroad quilt block codes as an artist-driven reimagining of navigating the global economy rendered as a collective, music conduction system practicum and performance.
Adrian Blackwell’s two interrelated structures at 259 Lake Shore Blvd E and the Small Arms Inspection Building host weekly performances and readings. Invited guests include poet CAConrad, artists Camilo Godoy and Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Apache violinist Laura Ortman, Sister Co-Resister, and percussionist Marshall Trammell.
Image: Agatha Urbaniak (UK). Courtesy Marshall Trammell.
Performance Program: Isonomia in Toronto
Small Arms Inspection Building (2019)
1352 Lakeshore Road East
Mississauga ON
L5E 1E9
October 5
Bio
Marshall Trammell (lives in Oakland, CA, USA and Albuquerque, NM, USA) is a self-styled Music Research Strategist. He is an experimental percussionist and designer of interculturally-situated, arts-driven social engagement interventions. He conducts Insurgent Learning Workshops (ILWs) instigating renderings of alternative economics and anti-violence, community accountability frameworks as Creative Improvised Music.
He performs on drum set, bull roarers and face jugs. An array of three face jugs were created by Jim McDowell in the manner of pottery used to mark graves of early enslaved Africans in North Carolina and ward off demons. Trammell performs narratives of fugitivity in contemporary, Experimental performance.
He was a fellow at Rensellaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY (2004-06), and recently an Intercultural Leadership Institute fellow (2018-19). In 2016, he published “Music Research Strategies” for Sound American and is currently documenting ILWs for publication. He is a member of In Defense of Memory, featuring Laura Ortman and Carlos Santistevan. He was co-director of bands Black Spirituals (Sige Records) and Mutual Aid Project.