Performance
Constellations
Anjeline de Dios · Rick Countryman · Tusa Montes
In Constellations, Anjeline de Dios, Rick Countryman, and Tusa Montes navigate the disparate sonic cultures of saxophone, kulintang, and voice to map a unique experience of free improvisation.
- Date
- Saturday, 24 May 2025
- Time
- 9:00 PM
- Location
- 1F Projects, La Fuerza Plaza, Makati
- Voice / Loop
- Anjeline de Dios
- Saxophone / Flute
- Rick Countryman
- Kulintang / Percussion
- Tusa Montes
- Contributors
- Anjeline de Dios, Tusa Montes
- Poster Design
- @cloathes_studio
Artist Bios
Anjeline de Dios
Anjeline de Dios is a Kraków-based Filipina writer, singer, teacher, and reader whose work sits at the intersection of cultural geography, experimental sound practice, and meditation training. She holds a BA in philosophy from Ateneo de Manila University, an MA in philosophy from Linköping University (Sweden), and a PhD in geography from the National University of Singapore (2015). She is the co-editor (with Lily Kong) of Handbook on the Geographies of Creativity (Edward Elgar, 2020) and the author of Living Song, Living Labor, an ethnography of overseas Filipino musicians. Using an RC-505 loop station, she improvises songscapes that blur distinctions between meditation, sound art, and choral music. Performances and residencies include Bałtycka Galeria Sztuki Współczesnej (Poland), Listening Biennial 2023 (Philippines), Lingnan University (Hong Kong), Studio Plesungan (Indonesia), SAVVY Contemporary (Germany), the ArtsEverywhere Festival (Canada), the Goethe Institut (Southeast Asia), and the Philippine Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale.
Rick Countryman
Rick Countryman is an American free-improvisation saxophonist and flautist based in the Philippines, performing on alto saxophone, baritone saxophone, alto flute, and bass flute. He studied jazz improvisation, intervallic cycles, and extended techniques with Bert Wilson, with American jazz double bassist Michael Bisio and tenor saxophonist Rick Mandyck as early mentors; his playing draws on Eric Dolphy, Sonny Simmons, and the 60s Free Jazz movement. He records regularly with international collaborators including Christian Bucher and Japanese improvisational drummer Sabu Toyozumi, with releases on Improvising Beings (France), Chap Chap Records (Japan), FMR Records (UK), and Sol Disk Records (US) — more than a dozen records across Europe, Asia, and the United States.
Tusa Montes
Tusa Montes is a percussionist, ethnomusicologist, and educator from the Philippines, specializing in the musics of the Philippines, Asia, West Africa, and Latin America. She holds a Master of Music in Musicology from the UP College of Music (2012), where she now serves as Senior Lecturer; she previously taught at the UST Conservatory of Music for ten years. Her kulintang practice has been shaped by training under American ethnomusicologist Royal Hartigan, with whom she has researched Maguindanaon Kulintang and Kalinga music and explored kulintang–jazz fusion; she heads the Philippines branch of Hartigan’s Kekeli African Ensemble and recently formed the world-acoustic pop group Anahata. She is a member of the World Percussion Committee of the Percussive Arts Society and has performed with Edsel Gomez, Dana Leong, and others.
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