CAMPGround25 Program

Friday, March 14 at 7:30 pm, Red Door No.5 - wedding ceremony

Live streaming link: https://www.youtube.com/live/GYPcx5WH30o?si=WqWg0NQo5bM4uBQp

GARDEN

GAEN, JI GAENG

Na Seong Choi

kkwaengwari-gong, Woonjung Sim

The performer holds the Kkwaenggari-Gong over and under and strikes it using mallets and bare hands. The Kkwaenggwari-Gong has transitioned from being a mere object for play to a component integrated within the playing subject.

Gaen, Ji gaeng

The monologue of Kkwaenggari-Gong continues with various nuances.

His increasingly lengthy monologue evokes the repetitive recitation of lyrics by a Mudang (shaman) in 굿Gut(ritual ceremony).

And the Glaciers Echoed

Huan Sun

percussion, Kevin von Kampen

And the glaciers echoed is inspired by Katie Paterson’s installation entitled Vatnajokull (the sound of). She used a waterproof microphone that transmitted live sound from the Jökulsárlón lagoon in Iceland, which is the largest glacier in Europe. She made a link to encourage people to connect emotionally with melting glaciers. Climate change is having a dramatically damaging effect on glaciers, and the call made a connection to see it happening. Unfortunately, this call doesn't exist anymore due to the melted glaciers.

This installation touched me a lot and interested me in researching how melting glaciers are happening tremendously around the world. I can’t even imagine how bad the following national disasters will be after melting glaciers. “In 2016, a four-thousand-foot previously frozen mountain slope in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve collapsed, unleashing a flood of rock and mud over nearly nine square miles of glaciers. The release was so massive it was equivalent to a magnitude 5.2 earthquake…” I felt astonished and suffocated by the information about glaciers. Thus, I want to mark the processing of melting glaciers by music.

During my music, you could hear the scattered dripping sound, the cracking sound, the “echo” sound of glaciers (you could also see it as whale’s sound), the calving sound of glaciers, and the collapse sound, etc.

fuse

Patrick Chin Ting Chan http://www.chintingchan.com

saxophone, Katherine Weintraub

percussion, Kevin von Kampen

Commissioned by and written for Popebama (Erin Rogers, saxophone; Dennis Sullivan, percussion), fuse is a controlled aleatory composition that explores the idea of fusing different timbral materials into one entity. The performers are given non-pitched, notational but sometimes graphical rhythmic guidance in a timed improvisation. They are also given the freedom to choose the specific saxophone and percussion instruments, while amplification or live electronics can be added as an augmentation as well. Each performing duo will eventually find their own way to “fuse” the materials.

Actias

Christopher Dietz https://sites.google.com/view/christopher-dietz-composer/home

violin, Sini Virtanen

cello, Laura Usiskin

dance, Disfunktionals

Actias depicts the interactions between two dancers whose strong attraction is ultimately the cause of one another’s demise. It was conceived as a purely instrumental piece although it may be used to accompany live dance or film as well. The work’s title comes from a genus of large moths that include the Asian and American moon moths (the Luna moth being a representative North American species). After emerging from their cocoons, females release pheromones which can be detected by males over a distance of miles. Mating typically occurs after midnight followed immediately by egg-laying, after which, they die.

GALLERY

Is and Air *world premiere. The piece is written for Sini Virtanen Cabaolu and Arda Cabaolu Virtanen

Dorothy Hindman https://dorothyhindman.com

violin, Virtanen

trumpet, Arda Cabaoglu

In 2023, violinist Sini Virtanen and trumpeter Arda Cabaoglu requested a ceremonial piece to commemorate their marriage. I asked them to send me brief recordings of each playing their instrument independently and then together. Sini sent her favorite double stop, Arda sent long notes with various mutes, and together they sent two Bartok Wedding duets. I digitally analyzed and stretched these to determine their precise acoustic structures, and processed them to create more complex timbres.

In Is and Air, the violin and trumpet initially present their material independently. The violin’s virtuosic material at the opening symbolically completes the trumpet. From the trumpet’s opening note, I digitally removed the harmonic aspects (the pitch), leaving behind only extremely complex and quiet artifacts, which I then transcribed for violin. Conversely, the trumpet enters with its full note, emphasizing its strongest overtones, which provide the pitch for the violin’s next entrance. Through these and other kinds of acoustic manipulations, the performers’ timbres gradually meld over the work into composite structures and shifting moods. At the end, the original materials are presented, fully blended into one musical statement.

Is and Air is an anagram of Sini and Arda’s names.

Artist Moment:Dominique Martinez’s presentation

Wedding Music: improvisation

CAMP & PAN Project

굿거리 Gutgeori

PAN Project

piri, gamin
guqin, Jeff Roberts
shakuhachi, Ned Rothenberg

janggu, Woonjung Sim

This piece is based on the twelve beat Korean rhythmic cycle of the same name. This rhythmic cycle’s origins lie in shaman ritual music of Southwest Korea. The musical core of Korean ritual music is the rhythmic cycle which accompanies the shaman during ritual. Alongside the ritual percussion ensemble also performed a group of melodic instruments that, as part of the ritual, improvised music. This music is called sinawi (시나위) and was improvised in a free and heterophonic style as a way to express the emotional-spiritual unfolding of the ritual. In PAN Project’s performance, the folk melody Sae-Taryeong (Bird Song), also from Southwest Korea, is used as a point of departure for free improvisation.

Pull no more for electroacoustic harp and electronics

Liliya Ugay https://liliyaugay.com

electroacoustic harp, Noël Wan https://nywharp.com/bio

"pulling the strings repeatedly is like giving a birth -

you feel the constant pulling of your spin-string,

yet before the heavy work of pushing starts.

the only consoling thought is that

the exhausting sensation will eventually be over

but no one knows when that long-awaited moment arrives

until then - endure "

水节奏 Water Rhythm

Jeff Roberts https://www.jeff-roberts.org

PAN Project

saenghwang, gamin
guqin & live electronics, Jeff Roberts
shakuhachi, Ned Rothenberg

janggu & jing, Woonjung Sim

In East Asian traditions (i.e. Chinese, Korean, Japanese), musical instrument mimicry of water is common. The Chinese guqin (7-stringed zither) uses a string-raking technique that imitates the sound of flowing water. The rhythmic patterns of the Korean barrel drum janggu are associated with water as well. Through my practice of soundscape composition, I developed a subtler sonic awareness of connections between instrumental sounds imitating water and actual water sounds in nature. For example, in listening to sounds of a rainy landscape, I noticed how the rhythms of louder rain drops standing out from the overall complex texture of rain created scattered, accented rhythms similar to the rhythms of Korean janggu in slower-tempo music. In the piece ‘Water Rhythm’ I attempt to synthesize these two worlds, merging the scattered, accented rhythms of Korean janggu and the flowing sounds of guqin with field recordings of rainy landscapes. Found objects create a meeting point between the instruments and field recordings and help to produce an integrated sound world of flowing and spontaneous rhythm, melodic gesture and texture.

True Love Peach Blossom *world premiere. CAMPGround25 commissioned piece

Chihchun Chi-Sun Lee https://www.chihchunlee.com/index.html

CAMP & PAN Project

True Love Peach Blossom is a special composition celebrating the union and wedding of two exceptional musicians from the Contemporary Art Music Project: Finnish violinist Dr. Sini Vritanen and Turkish trumpet player Dr. Arda Cabaoglu.

This piece is uniquely crafted for both the CAMP and PAN Project Ensemble, featuring an intercultural blend of instruments, including the Japanese shakuhachi, Korean piri and janggu, the Suzuki Andes 25F (a Japanese recorder-keyboard), and Western violin and trumpet.

Inspired by this diverse instrumentation and the rich cultural backgrounds of the musicians, True Love Peach Blossom embraces the theme of love and marriage. The music incorporates elements from various wedding traditions, drawing from Japanese, Korean, Finnish, and Turkish ceremonial music and dances.

Commissioned by the Contemporary Art Music Project, this piece was made possible with additional support from the Department of Cultural Affairs, Taipei City Government.

Technical Director: Rob Voisey & Zach Hale

Assistant Director: Indigo Knecht

Photographer: Axel Retif

Head of usher: Hannah Lanese