Lunna Menoh Headdress 2009

Who Is Lun*na Menoh | Film Festival Trailer

live show at people's closet area, "Les Sewing Sisters - Home Tour in Silverlake

Les Sewing Sisters in the L.A. Times

Les Sewing Sisters in the Los Angeles Times - full Article. 

Les Sewing Sisters will be doing a concert at the Kopeikin Gallery in conjunction with the opening of Rebecca Bird's new exhibition, which will take place from 6:00 PM to 8PM. At 8PM, Les Sewing Sisters will do their performance. Free Event.
Saturday, October 26, 2019
Les Sewing Sisters performance: 8PM
Rebecca Bird's art opening : 6 to 8PM
The Kopeikin Gallery is located at:
2766 S La Cienega Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90034

Fashion Forward: The Sound of Los Angeles' Visionary Les Sewing Sisters by Keith Walsh

Photo by Stevo Rood (ARood Photo)

Fashion Forward: The Sounds Of Los Angeles’ Visionary ‘Les Sewing Sisters’

Les Sewing Sisters - Opening for Sparks - El Rey Theater LA CA - October...

Thanks to the fan who shot this from the audience.

Les Sewing Sisters "She Sews" promo

Les Sewing Sisters (Lun*na Menoh and Saori Mitome)  are the opening band for SPARKS that will take place on Saturday, October 14 and Tuesday, October 17 at the El Rey Theater in Los Angeles.

To get a taste of Les Sewing Sisters' music, click on the link down below:

https://soundcloud.com/user-271550750

Les Sewing Sisters New Music!

Lun*na Menoh and Saori Mitome are Les Sewing Sisters.

Listen to the three new songs.


https://soundcloud.com/user-271550750

Lun*na Menoh's "A Ring Around The Collar" with Les Sewing Sisters Live

All set-up and ready for tomorrow night!  July 22, 2017

ARTX in collaboration with Long Beach Museum of Art presents: Lun*na Menoh's: "A Ring Around The Collar "Fashion Show with Les Sewing Sisters live at 8pm FREE

356 E. 3rd Street
Long Beach CA 90802

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Lun*na Menoh: "A Ring Around The Collar Fashion Show 2017, with Les Sewing Sisters July 22, 2017

All photos by Steven Nilsson & Jennifer Cheung

Contact Information : (562) 999-2267
 arthappens@artexchangelb.org

ArtExchange - ArtX with the Long Beach Museum of Art
presents:

Lun*na Menoh “ A Ring  Around The Collar: fashion show 2017”

For IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Lun*na Menoh “A Ring Around The Collar: fashion show 2017,”
with Les Sewing Sisters
Date: Saturday, July 22, 2017
Time: 8:00 P.M.
FREE EVENT

ArtExchange - ArtX with Long Beach Museum of Art presents “Lun*na Menoh, A Ring Around The Collar Fashion Show 2017.”

Taking place at ArtExchange Gallery, 356 East 3rd Street, Long Beach, CA, 90802 and featuring art performance/ music band Les Sewing Sisters.

Unlike a commercial fashion show, Lun*na Menoh ’s fashion show is more of a “de-fashion show.”  There are Runway models changing outfits one after another but Menoh’s clothing, although wearable, is more conceptual in theme and practice. For this event/performance,  Menoh’s theme of the fashion show is “ A Ring Around The Collar”  which is also the title of the exhibition of her artwork that is taking place at ArtExchange/ArtX.   Menoh worked on "A Ring Around The Collar" art/clothing project for 18 years, and this is her first fashion show in Long Beach.  The majority of the wearable clothing is made by dirty stained white collars or the image of the dirty collar.

In addition, Les Sewing Sisters will perform their music before the fashion show.


Les Sewing Sisters are Lun*na Menoh’s music project with Saori Mitome, which uses the sewing machine as a music instrument.  All music heard by Les Sewing Sisters are original sounds that come from the sewing machine and then altered through electronics, which in turn changes noise into music.  Les Sewing Sisters is a mixture of spoken word, singing, jazz-influenced pop, with a side of hip-hop, yet danceable experimental noise music. All the lyrics are about dressmaking, sewing, fashion, and clothing.

Also a short video for the program:

"A Ring Around The Collar" 7 min video

Directed by Jeff Mizushima

A video directed by Jeff Mizushima on the history of Lun*na Menoh's collecting and using men's dirty white collars for her artwork.  Ten years of the artwork and fashion shows that Lun*na directed and made with respect to her art. 

 "Lun*na Menoh has brilliantly narrowed the catwalk between art and haut couture, fashioning work that adorn bodies with thrilling ingenuity and restyles our mind.”
- Ralph Rugoff: Director of the Hayward Gallery, London

- End of Press Release -

Lun*na Menoh A Ring Around The Collar Exhibition at Art Exchange (with The Long Beach Museum of Art) in Long Beach

ARTX in partnership with the Long Beach Museum of Art is excited to present the work of Lun*na Menoh a Japanese-born performance artist living and working in Los Angeles. Her multi-layered works engage a variety of media, music, sculpture, painting, and fashion exposing the invisible threads and interconnections between Visual Arts performance and Haute Couture. #lunnamenoh#artinlongbeach #artx
#lessewingsisters @lunnamenoh

Exhibition opens to the public: June 10, 2017  TO July 23, 2017

Join us for the opening reception: 6/17 5-9pm

356 East 3rd Street Long Beach, CA 90802

Phone: +1 (562) 999-2267

Email: arthappens@artexchangelb.org

Gallery Hours:
Thursday, 2pm-6pm
Friday, 4pm-8pm
Saturday, 1pm-7pm (Second Saturday 3 pm to 9 pm - call above to make sure the schedule is correct
Sunday, Noon-4pm

Tosh Talks - Bolero by Lun*na Menoh

http://www.toshtalks.com/2016/10/tosh-talks-lunna-menoh-sewing-machine_1.html

Lun*na Menoh's Performance of Maurice Ravel's "Bolero" on Izu Oshima Island

Lun*na Menoh premiere performance of Maurice Ravel's BOLERO in JAPAN

Lun*na Menoh Conducting Her version of Maurice Ravel's BOLERO

Lun*na Menoh conducting her own version of Maurice Ravel's BOLERO. All sounds from the sewing machine. What she has done is take Ravel's masterpiece back to the Industrial Age, when the sewing machine first started to appear in people's homes. Probably the first mechanic machine that appeared in the everyday home. Ravel's dad worked in a factory, so he was aware of the rhythms of the factory, and then therefore "Bolero." 

Lun*na worked from the original score by Ravel, so it is probably one of the most accurate versions of the orchestrated piece in existence. It's 18 minutes long, which was the original length that Ravel wanted for Bolero. Some orchestrations speed up the piece, but Ravel consistently asked for it to last 18 minutes. Lun*na honored the composer, by following his suggestion. As well, as bringing it all back to the factory 

Pretty much a masterpiece by both Ravel and Lun*na.

- Tosh Berman

Lun*na Menoh on KCRW Discussing Maurice Ravel and Bolero

Lun*na Menoh discusses Maurice Ravel and Bolero and her upcoming performance of performing Ravel's Bolero this coming Saturday.  Hear it here:

 

http://blogs.kcrw.com/dna/ravels-bolero-performed-with-sewing-machines

Lun*na Menoh performs Maurice Ravel's Bolero

$12 [ $10 Current V.P.E.S. Members]

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Saturday, July 30 at 7 PM  The Velaslavasay Panorama 1122 W 24th St, Los Angeles, California 90007

The Velaslavasay Panorama welcomes back experimental artist, designer and musician Lun*na Menoh for her première performance of Maurice Ravel's Bolero, reimagined using sampled sewing machine noise and found sound.

Opening the show are Les Sewing Sisters (Atsuko Yoo and Saori Mitome), an artist collective using the sewing machine and voices to create music surrounding matters of dress, fabric and fashion.

~ON LUN*NA MENOH~
Lun*na Menoh is a Japanese born singer sewing artist who lives in Los Angeles. Her work deals with fashion, clothing and exposing the invisible thread between performance and fabric by making sculpturesque dresses, paintings, and a series of fashion shows with her conceptual but wearable outfits.

Starting in 1999, She made a number of paintings, of men's white dress shirts that are given a dirty stained ring around the collar. In early 2000, she started making music with the bands Seksu Roba and her own group Jean Paul Yamamoto. Currently her band is Les Sewing Sisters which creates pop songs about dresses & dress making approached with experimental touches such as using the sewing machine as a musical instrument.

Programming at the Velaslavasay Panorama has been funded in part by the Los Angeles County Arts Commission.

Lun*na Menoh's actual score to Maurice Ravel's Bolero