PROYECTOS RAUL ZAMUDIO
Emma McCagg
Girls n’ Crashes
OPENING SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 6-9PM
NOVEMBER 18 - DECEMBER 10, 2023
DISSOLVEMENT
SEPTEMBER 8 - 15, 2023
WADSTRÖM TÖNNHEIM GALLERY — GUEST CURATION
The Empty Circle is pleased to host Wadström Tönnheim Gallery for their group exhibition running September 8 – September 15th, 2023
Opening Reception September 8th, 6 - 9pm
Julia San Martín
Club Cementerio
Solo Exhibition
July 9 - August 9, 2023
open Saturdays and Sundays 12-6pm and by appointment
TERRY BERKOWITZ
ENDLESS BARDO: MEDITATIONS ON LIVING IN A TIME OF UNCERTAINTY
Solo Exhibition
June 2 - July 3, 2023
PHOTO LONDON
MAY 10-14, 2023
BOOTH A05
YOU DONT NEED A WEATHERMAN TO KNOW WHICH WAY THE WIND BLOWS
MARCH 25-APRIL 22, 2023
Proximate Immateriality
Caden Manson & Jemma Nelson
January 31, 2023 - February 25, 2023
Opening January 31st, 6 - 8pm
Caden Manson, Hot Pink Drip, 2022, 8 x 4 in, Stoneware and glaze / Jemma Nelson, XGeist I, 2022, 9 x 12 in, Poster color on paper
Proximate Immateriality explores concepts of decoherence: the process of an object or an entity un-becoming, losing form and structure, or assuming anti-shape. In the XGeist series of paintings by Jemma Nelson, the artist explores the (dis)figuration of spectral bodies. What structural logic governs entities defined as anti-forms: ghosts, shades, echoes? In the Hot Pink Drip ceramics of Caden Manson, containers transform into excluders through the excess and deformation of surface.
The Empty Circle and Proyectos Raul Zamudio
LAPDOGS OF WAR
MARCH 26- APRIL 24, 2022
OPENING SATURDAY MARCH 26
6-9PM
THE EMPTY CIRCLE PRESENTS
Old Masters
Adolfo Doring and Claudia Doring Baez
February 9-13, 2022
ZonaMaco Art Fair, Mexico City, Mexico
The Empty Circle and Proyectos Raul Zamudio are pleased to present
ASUNDER: Andrew Ellis Johnson and Susanne Slavick
February 12-March 13
Opening February 12 6pm-9pm
STREWN, HD Video, 5:02 minutes, 2015
499 Third Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11215
Vaccination and masks required for entry
ASUNDER speaks to being torn apart or in pieces—whether through war, revolution, ideological impasse, or willful ignorance. Division abounds, between truth and lies, justice and inequity.
This show features creatures both earthbound and airborne. Swept up in the tumult, they embody the aspirations and failures that both separate and unite us. Pigs—an intelligent species—swell with corporate greed or wallow among strewn books. Collective knowledge is reduced to and consumed as pulp. Facts are denied, truths twisted and trampled. Birds promise to rise above it all but remain grounded. They strut past devastation or perch on rubble, going about business as usual or surveying a world in pieces—waiting to be put back together again.
Leonard Sussman : Photographs From The Antipodes
NOVEMBER 3 - DECEMBER 10, 2021
OPENING RECEPTION WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 3RD
6-8 PM
The Empty Circle is pleased to announce Leonard Sussman : Photographs From The Antipodes. The exhibition opens Wednesday, November 3, and will be on view through December 10, 2021.
GREENHOUSE
EMILY ZUCH
SEPTEMBER 22 - OCTOBER 17TH
OPENING RECEPTION - WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 22ND, 6 TO 8PM
July, Oil on board, 50 x 50 inches, 2021
BEELZEBUB’S TALES
OPENING - WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 30TH, 6-9PM
DECEMBER 30, 2020 - JANUARY 18, 2021
THE PIGEON & THE MOUSE
A land creature and a sky creature who are deeply in love learn that the earth is falling out of the sky.
Welcome to Campfire presents A twenty-minute adaptation of its evening-length danceplay “The Pigeon & The Mouse”, featuring paintings created by visual artists Olya Dubatova and Levon Petrosyan for the piece’s January premiere. Audiences are invited to tune into the sound score in real time using their personal cellular devices and headphones while viewing the work, at a safe social distance, through The Empty Circle’s glass storefront.
TIMES AND DATES:
SATURDAY AND SUNDAY NOV 14 & 15 AT 2 PM AND 3PM.
SATURDAY AND SUNDAY NOV 21 & 22 AT 2 PM AND 3PM.
RUNNING TIME 22 MIN
At the intersection of dance and theater, abstraction and narrative, sci-fi and fable, The Pigeon & The Mouse is a love story about two people forced to leave home in the wake of civil war. Join creators and performers Tony Bordonaro and Ingrid Kapteyn in the practice of what homo sapiens do best: use fiction and fantasy as a means to survive.
HOT WAX
NEW WORK BY JANIE KORN AND ERNESTO RENDA
October 8 - November 8, 2020
Opening Reception Thursday October 8, 4-7pm
The material qualities of wax are central to both of these artists’ practices. Korn’s candle wax serves a tried and true function (burning slowly), while also lending a goopy unique finish to the fun and vibrant figures. Renda’s wax pastels have both the ability to rub off on the canvas and resist the washes of acrylic paint, which allow a primal subtext to emerge from each scene.
Janie Korn is a New York based sculptor whose practice focuses on candle-making. Her candles are one-of-a-kind, figurative, and polychromatic, putting the work in dialogue with painted porcelain and wooden figurines. Her subjects are culled from pop culture, consumer goods, friends, family, and memories.
Ernesto Renda is a New York based painter and mixed-media artist. His paintings combine low-relief, pastel rubbing, and acrylic paint. He imagines his paintings as mourning-objects for the electronic screen, conjuring the presence of moving screen -images with inert media. Each of his compositions is dialectical, presenting a primary line drawing drawn in hot glue and then a pastel drawing on canvas on top of it. In making the pastel drawing, Renda produces a rubbing of the underlying image, synthesizing the two images into a third composition.
Nocturnes: The Nighttime Landscapes of Emily Church and Kathryn Lynch
March 13 - April 18, 2020
Co-Curated by Bartholomew F. Bland and Matt Nasser
Opening Reception: Friday, March 13, 6-8pm
The word "nocturne" conjures Frédéric Chopin’s dreamy piano solos and the misty canvases of James McNeill Whistler. The nocturne is romanticized shorthand - a time for reflection, a time for decadence, a time for repose. Illuminated by streetlights or neon signs, the nocturne can symbolize the urban Mecca, a pulse beating through the darkness. Kathryn Lynch embraces this urban nocturnal mode in works depicting the great curved black hulls of ships in New York’s Harbor at night, which conjure the famous 1935 Normandie poster by Adolphe Mouron Cassandre. Lynch’s works also suggest the hard-lined urban nocturnes by early 20th century precisionist George Ault, showcasing bridges, trains, and the modern rhythm of the nocturne City.The nocturne can also represent the pastoral Arcadian ideal, the atmosphere softened and thickened into evening twilight: the reflective moment of the day T.S. Eliot called the Violet Hour. This emotional response to the night sky has been exploited by artists since the early 19th century artist Casper David Freidrich painted his famous scenes of couples observing the moon in reverie. Emily Church draws inspiration for her surprisingly colorful canvases of night from great artists of the past: the Romantic British landscapes of John Constable and J.M.W. Turner; the Modernist works of Georgia O’Keeffe and Marsden Hartley - all devoted painters of the moon and the night sky. The night sky shifts our thoughts and feelings, recalling myth and ritual, conjuring love, romance, and assignation. Whether pearl grey, inky black, or hued purple, the onset of evening signals a change to our deeper, dreamlike selves. In this dynamic installation Church and Lynch each explore this heightened dreamlike state, providing viewers with a sublime emotional response to the night rhythms that show our lives.
- Bartholomew F. Bland
Executive Director
Lehman College Art Gallery
THE EMPTY CIRCLE
IS PLEASE TO PARTICIPATE IN
THE SECOND ANNUAL QIPO ART FAIR DURING ART WEEK IN MEXICO CITY!
ARTISTS EXHIBITING:
ADOLFO DORING
CARLOS RODRIGUEZ
CLAUDIA BAEZ
DANIEL KUKLA
GIO BLACK PETER
JEAN-FRANÇOIS LE MINH
LA JOHNJOSEPH
PLEASE JOIN US AT THE OPENING PARTY
OR THROUGHOUT THE WEEK.
FEBRUARY 6TH TO THE 9TH!
Dates and Hours / Fechas y horarios:
Thursday / jueves, Feb06: 7pm – 11pm
Friday / viernes, Feb 07: 3pm – 9pm
Saturday / sábado, Feb 08: 3pm - 9pm
Sunday / domingo, Feb 09: 12pm - 6pm
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Where / Donde:
Bucareli 80, Colonia Centro, CDMX
ZISL SLEPOVITCH TRIO
FEBRUARY 15TH AT 7:30PM
FREE, FABULOUS RED WINE INCLUDED WITH $15 ADMISSION!
ZISL SLEPOVITCH TRIO PLAYS ROOTS, EUROPEAN FOLK- AND EARLY MUSIC-BASED IMPROVISED MUSIC, AS WELL AS ZISL SLEPOVITCH'S ORIGINAL COMPOSITIONS (COMPOSED-IMPROVISED).
NADAV LEV (GUITAR)
DMITRY ISHENKO (BASS)
ZISL SLEPOVITCH (WOODWINDS, VOCALS)
ADMISSION: $15 (AT DOOR)
MUSIC SERIES EVENT
JANUARY 19, 2020
PARNUSE BAND
AN EVENING OF KLEZMER, GYPSY AND BESSARABIAN MUSIC
Featuring Musicians
Clarinet - Naum Goldstein
Violin- Zoe Aqua
Accordion- Ilya Shneyveys
Drums - David Light
ART EXHIBIT
Proyectos Raúl Zamudio Presenta
Ferran Martin: burning down the house
Saturday NOVEMBER 17th, 6-8 pm
FALL ART EXHIBIT
SATURDAY OCTOBER 3rd, 6pm
Proyectos Raúl Zamudio Presenta
AARON BURR SOCIETY/JIM COSTANZO:
A BRIEF HISTORY OF CLASS WARFARE
performance by artist and cellist Jacob Cohen
For those who have eyes and intoxicated with the delirium
- Steppenwolf, Herman Hesse
A Brief History of Class Warfare is organized around two public artworks created before the formation of the Aaron Burr Society. The first was a 1992 REPOhistory sign placed on Wall Street; the second was a series of anti-war/human-rights billboards from the 2003 billboard series that was produced with White Box and funded by the Puffin Foundation.
“Jim Costanzo’s [REPOhistory] sign, Advantages of an Unregulated Market Economy, showed a stockbroker falling from a height as a crowd of outstretched arms attempted to catch him. Of all the signs, this one articulated the most direct criticism of contemporary capitalism, anticipating the kind of rhetoric and slogans that would be used by Occupy Wall Street some twenty years later—indeed, Costanzo went on to be involved in OWS.”*
Though the other artworks were not designed for the public sphere, they are similar in that they can also be read as Steppenwolf’s signs for “those who have eyes”. The exhibition includes photographs, videos, letterpress prints, and artifacts created for the Aaron Burr Society. One is a whiskey still and bottle from the Society’s 2nd Whiskey Rebellion. The other works include flags woven from the stamped paper currencies of the U.S, Mexico, and the Northern Triangle nations of El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala. The text of the stamped currency includes Free Money, Slave of Wall Street, and Common Good/Commonwealth, which are translated into different languages.
*Mark Donnelly, Can Counter Histories Disturb The Present? Repohistory’s Street Signs Projects, 1992–1999, St Mary’s University Press, 2018
MUR
MARY ANN
OPENING PARTY THURSDAY JUNE 27th
7-10pm
8pm Performance
"Mary Ann" is an installation of over 300 hand painted sumi ink portraits of Mur's psychotherapist.
In honor of New York City World Pride, "Mary Ann" is a symbol of mental health wellness in the LGBTQIA+ community.
The installation is part of a series of installations Mur has exhibited in collaboration with Soho House, Jill Platner, Illesteva, The Wild Bird Fund, Susan Alexandra, New York City MTA, and Creatures of Comfort.
The opening party will include a 15 minute operetta, written by Mur and performed by local queer artists.
D A N I E L K U K L A
M A N - E A T E R
04 M A Y - 08 J U N E
OPENING RECEPTION
04 MAY 2-5 PM
DANIEL KUKLA’S ARTISTIC PRACTICE SEEKS TO EXAMINE THE INTERSECTIONS BETWEEN THE PHOTOGRAPHIC FORM, PUBLIC MYTHOLOGY, AND ECOLOGY. MAN-EATER, MAY 4 - JUNE 8, FEATURES A SUITE OF MIRRORED PALIMPSESTS CONSTRUCTED FROM POLAROID EMULSIONS, FOUND AND HISTORIC, THAT THE ARTIST DIGITALLY LAYERED AND THEN REPHOTOGRAPHED. THESE PHOTOGRAPHIC MEMBRANES ARE DELICATELY LAYERED ATOP AND ABUT AGAINST ONE ANOTHER ON MIRRORED SURFACES SHAPED LIKE TRADITIONAL DAGUERREOTYPES. THE MIRRORED DAGUERREOTYPE FORM RECALLS WINDOWS, PORTALS, AND BYZANTINE ICON WORKS BUT SPEAK TO A MORE IMPLICATED RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN IMAGE AND VIEWER. KUKLA HAS SELECTED IMAGES DEPICTING POPULAR SOCIALLY CONSTRUCTED MYTHS OF VIOLENCE BETWEEN MAN AND NATURE SUCH AS THE TIPU TIGER FROM THE KINGDOM OF MYSORE AND TSAVO MAN-EATING LIONS OF THE KENYAN-UGANDAN RAILWAY. THESE FICTIVE STORIES FUNCTION AS IMAGINARY ANALOGS IN WHICH THE THE CARNAGE THAT OCCURS DURING THE ESTABLISHMENT OF EMPIRE IS DEPICTED AS BEING CONDUCTED BY BEASTS EXACTING THEIR OWN HORRIFIC VENGEANCE. THE ENDURING POWER OF THESE PUBLIC MYTHS ARE REARTICULATED THROUGH FILM AND NEWS OSSIFYING A NARRATIVE OF NATURE VERSUS PUBLIC. KUKLA’S WORKS ASK THE VIEWER TO REFLECT ON AND INSIDE OF THESE CULTURAL AND PHOTOGRAPHIC METAPHORS WHILE ALSO INTERROGATING THE ASSUMED DOCUMENTARY NATURE OF THE MEDIUM OF PHOTOGRAPHY.
DANIEL KUKLA IS A GRADUATE OF THE INTERNATIONAL CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY’S (ICP) PROGRAM IN DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY AND PHOTOJOURNALISM. PRIOR TO HIS PHOTOGRAPHIC EDUCATION HE ATTENDED THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO AND RECEIVED HIS BACHELORS OF SCIENCE IN BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY. HIS WORK HAS BEEN EXHIBITED AT THE INTERNATIONAL CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY, THE NATIONAL ART GALLERY OF THE BAHAMAS, RISD MUSEUM OF ART, APERTURE FOUNDATION, MASIN MUSEO DE ART DE SINALOA, AMONG OTHERS.
-JOHN ARTHUR PEETZ
THE EXHIBITION IS ORGANIZED BY CURATOR MATT NASSER.
matt@emptycirclespace.com
coming up! date tba-
AN EVENING OF KLEZMER MUSIC
KALZZ-MA-TAZZ
Klazz-Ma-Tazz has been described by NY Music Daily as “Epically Haunting Lynchian Klezmer Jazz”. Their music, while rooted in the jazz idiom, explores a unique chemistry of worldly musical influences and they are dedicated to performing and recording original compositions and uniquely reimagined interpretations of traditional secular Jewish music, catered to the nostalgically progressive audience of the 21st century. The band has released two albums, both of which have been heard on radio station across the US. Their most recent album, “Meshugenah” (2018) was released during City Winery’s Klezmer Brunch series which has been a frequent venue for the band. In February, 2018 their arrangement of Ukrainian folk song, "Svalava Kozatshok" went viral on Facebook with nearly 20K views. “Wild, yet reserved, the music of Klazz-Ma-Tazz will surprise you, excite you and calm you, all in one sitting”. (Fred Stal, RG Magazine)
Scope NY 2019 / Armory Week
exhibition of new work by
Claudia Doring Baez and Robert James Anderson
Please visit us at Booth #079
March 7th - 10th
Metropolitan Pavilion
125 W 18th St, New York, NY 10011
Thursday March 7th, VIP Preview 3pm - 9pm
Friday, March 8th 11am - 8pm
Saturday, March 9th 11am - 8pm
Sunday, March 10th 11am - 7pm
JOIN US SUNDAY JANUARY 13TH AT 7:00 PM
RED WINE INCLUDED WITH ADMISSION! $15 AT THE DOOR
THE EPICHORUS
ABOUT THE BAND
The Epichorus performs Indo-Arabic roots music - contemporary music inspired by the old sounds. They are lineage holders in classical traditions from India to Egypt and Greece, alongside Jazz and fusion aficionados. Come ready to be transported by ethereal music reminiscent of a loftier home.
Space is limited, email Naum@emptycirclespace.com to reserve!
Ingo Swann at Scope Miami Beach
December 4-9, 2018
Booth A09
The Empty Circle is pleased to present a curated booth of paintings by the late artist Ingo Swann. An acclaimed psi-researcher and author, Swann participated in over a hundred academic and government-backed research studies, which investigated human psychic powers as a reality – one that modern science systematically trivialized as unfounded or abnormal.
Swann pioneered the skill of “remote viewing,” a psychic ability that allowed one to see physically distant locations, such as the surface of planets. When the CIA discovered the existence of Soviet psi-spies at the height of the Cold War, they turned to Swann and the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) to train a group of military personnel in remote viewing, with the goal of creating their own psychic spies. This project, code named Stargate, ran from 1978 to 1995. During this period, Swann was told that his findings would never be shared with the public, out of the fear that civilians might begin to harness their psychic abilities to dismantle the status-quo. Swann's sense of repression was further compounded by the fact that he was a gay man living within a homophobic culture. Art, however, allowed Swann to freely express both his psychic inclinations and his sexual desires.
The paintings included in the booth – spanning the early 1960s to the 1980s – illustrate the unique way that Swann viewed the world. After abandoning his dream of commercial success in the late 1950s, Swann continued to paint only what gave him joy: primarily, the energy that he saw radiating from the people around him. Swann saw this energy- chi, aura, force - as uniting all living things to one another. He believed that if people were to harness their extra-sensory perceptions, to see these forces as he could, the world would change for the better. For this reason, this booth includes works from throughout his life that depict energy radiating from figures in rays, flames, mandalas, and halos. His subjects range from the mythological and ancient to hippies and hustlers. The latter of which, he may have seen outside of his home and studio on the Bowery in Manhattan. Also included are cosmic and metropolitan landscapes - the synthesis of Ingo’s fantastical vision and experience of the streets around him and the stars above.
This booth is a rare opportunity to see Swann's artworks, many of which have never been exhibited. When compelled by society to repress his power and desires, Swann refused, choosing instead to use his art as a way to freely express himself, and in so doing, to compel others to find their authentic selves by reconnecting with the energy that courses through us all.
Ingo Swann (1933-2013)
Swann was born in Telluride, Colorado in 1933. Since 1970, Swann has been interviewed or profiled in dozens of magazines, including Time, Reader's Digest, Smithsonian and Newsweek. He has published more than ten books on various psychic subjects such as remote viewing aliens on the Moon and Earth, how individuals can develop their future-seeing abilities, and the intersection of sexuality and psychic energies. His artwork is in the collections of The National Air and Space Museum, Edgar Cayce’s Association for Research and Enlightenment (A.R.E.), The American Visionary Art Museum and the Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art. His works have been included in “CLEAR," an exhibition at Gagosian, Los Angeles in 2014, "The Rainbow Serpent" at Gagosian, Athens in 2015 and “Ingo Swann: A Remote View” at La Mama Galleria, New York in the summer of 2016. Swann passed away in New York City in 2013. He is survived by his sister and several nieces, nephews and grand nieces and nephews.
Curator Matt Nasser: matt@emptycirclespace.com
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 23RD, 6PM
Proyectos Raúl Zamudio Presenta
Roi Vaara: I Did It My Way
Internationally acclaimed performance artist Roi Vaara makes rare New York City appearance. The evening begins with a carefully curated selection of videos and performance documentation that surveys Vaara's 500+ performances in over 50 countries. Following this will be a live performance by Roi Vaara.
One night only, 11/23/18, 6pm, at Empty Circle, 499 3rd Ave. Brooklyn, NY
Nearest Subway stop: F, G or R trains to 4th ave/9th St
Free and open to the public.
Join us Saturday NOVEMBER 17th at 8:00pm for an evening OF GREEK MUSIC!
Part of the First Kíklos Greek Traditional Music Festival NYC
wine included with admission!
$15
The Empty Circle is excited to announce:
Album Launch: “Áyia Méthi : Echoes of Dionysus”
by Niko Paterakis. Niko’s latest work features acoustic songs with a traditional soul BUT a modern edge, focused on and inspired by Dionysian influences and themes in Greek traditional music. The music seeks to bring out a direct and unbreakable connection between an evocative ancient past and a contemporary soundscape of meditation, ecstasy and zest.
About the band
Kíklos is an organization devoted to rekindling, rebranding and spreading Greek traditional culture, both in its capacity to preserve, but more importantly, in its capacity to innovate as a collection of living art forms. Kíklos aims to support the evolution of traditional culture by providing a sustainable platform for emerging artists who draw inspiration from traditional idioms to create new, contemporary works of art. We feel the necessity to adopt a more cosmopolitan approach in highlighting an underrepresented part of our culture to broaden this endeavor to new potential audiences.
Niko Paterakis is a Greek composer and singer based in NYC. As a multi-instrumentalist, he began composing music for performing arts while living and studying in the UK in the late 2000s. During this time, he performed original material in the world-renowned SWSX (Austin, Texas) and premiered his first musical theater production, Ano Throsko: Musical for the 21st Century (sponsored by Arts Council England). A few years later, he was admitted to Berklee Valencia (Berklee College of Music – Valencia, ES) to study for a Master’s degree in film scoring.Since moving to New York, Niko has been composing for libraries and other projects, as well as researching Greek traditional music, which led him to found and manage Kíklos Festival.
ABOUT THE MUSICIANS
Demetris Hantzis is a singer from Trikala, Greece, serving an impressive range of traditional music from all over Greece for more than 12 years. In the early 2000s, he graduated from the acclaimed Department of Folk and Traditional Music (Arta, Greece) and has since participated in numerous concerts with traditional dance and music ensembles all over Greece and abroad, including the emerging ensemble Provadouroi.
Nektarios Papageorgiou is a clarino player, composer and instructor from Trikala, Greece with a rich background in Byzantine and traditional Greek music. While studying clarino at the prestigious University of Macedonia (Salonica, Greece) with famed performer and instructor Manos Ahalinotopoulos, Nektarios has taught, performed and recorded in Greece and abroad for over a decade. He has collaborated with many distinguished Greek artists, including Petroloukas Halkias, Areti Ketime, Glykeria and others and is one of the core members of the rising groupProvadouroi.
Giorgos Retos is a multi-instrumentalist with nearly 15 years of performance experience with a variety of Greek traditional and folk ensembles. Also a core member of the band Provadouroi, he has performed as a guitarist, bouzouki and laouto player in concert across Spain, France, Germany, Italy, Romania, Serbia and Nigeria.
Ilias Papantoniou is an accomplished and versatile percussionist from Larissa, Greece. A classical percussion and traditional dance student since childhood, his early studies in traditional Greek percussion led him to Istanbul, Turkey, where he studied darbouka with the internationally acclaimed master, Misirli Ahmet. He later travelled to Spain, where he was accepted to study for a Master’s degree at Berklee Valencia (Berklee College of Music – Valencia, ES) and devoted himself to Latin percussion under the tutelage of the great performers Victor Mendoza and Yoel Paez. Since then, he’s been traveling, teaching and performing as a member of the Percuaction Global Percussion Network around Europe and South America.
