Intro

Borderless Contemporary Music from Korea

Synopsis

What Black String have achieved remarkably on this project, ＇Mask Dance＇, is to extend the sound of the traditional instruments, the wide range of colours and timbres. In ＇Flowing, Floating＇, Yoonjeong HEO creates a drone sound by using the combination of bow and loop pedal. In ＇Mask Dance＇, Aram LEE experiments with the unvoiced breath on the daegeum, producing a sound which is both contemporary and visceral. Jean OH brings a whole range of guitar-sourced sounds and pure electronic sounds, notably atmospheric popping sounds like falling raindrops at the start and the conclusion of Growth Ring.

Review

"As a first exploration into a Korean soundscape, Mask Dance is an excellent introduction for the developing dilettante."
- ACT Music Review by Dan Bergsagel (October 24, 2016)

http://www.londonjazznews.com/2016/10/cd-review-black-string-mask-dance.html 

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Creator / artist

Black String, based on Korean traditional music and improvisational kinds of jazz music, attempts to create a unique language through Asian intuition and musical idiom. Black String aims to seek a new sound that can internalize a variety of musical expressions in traditional music, as well as harmonize with other expressions in world music. They were founded in 2011 by a Korea-UK cultural exchange program titled the UK Connection project and have been performing at the Jarasum International Jazz Festival (South Korea) and London Jazz Festival (UK) collaborating with the UK artists Tim Garland, John Turville, Asaf Sirkis and Gwilym Simcock, and they are performing at many more world renowned festivals and venues. The amplified and bursting sound of Geomun-go, a fierce quake of Korean traditional percussion, and unpredictable melody of jazz guitar will captive all of your senses.

Promotion Infomation

TOUR SIZE
Performers : 4
Staff : 2

DURATION
80 min. (No intermission)

STAGE SIZE
Width : 12 m, Depth : 7 m, Height : m

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Marie OH

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