Groupmuse: Design – See, Hear, & Wear [NEWLY RECORDED]

Dave Adewumi, trumpet
Joey Chang, piano
Katherine Kyu Hyeon Lim, violin

Davis Butner, architectural design
Heather Chang, fashion design
Eleanor Altholz, dance
Carol Chave, dance

Featuring an architect and a fashion designer, The Moving Orchestra is back with a collaboration between music, movement, and design!
Virtually, you'll be able to see the architect's 3D modelling, hear the sound that the musicians designed, and wear the clothings that come out of this collaboration.

PART 1: SEE
LibesKind and The Planets
for music, movement, and architectural 3D design

PART 2: HEAR
Fantasy
for improvised music and movement

PART 3: WEAR
Four Stories through Garments
for music, movement, and sketched fashion design

About The Moving Orchestra:
Learning from freeform improvisation practices in New York City as well as practices by groups such as the AACM (Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians), our practice investigates interdisciplinary improvisation. As our society faces greater division, we respond with a practice facilitating artists of different backgrounds not just to collaborate, but to improvise freely with each other, telling audiences the stories of our current time. As we workshop improvisation with a constantly growing, diverse number of artists, we gain further perspective on the essence of collective improvisation. We create performance experiences from artistic expression that derives from and highlights the way we as people interact with each other, thus bringing the audience and the performers together in an intimate collaboration. This combination allows us to create an experience for the audience that constantly transforms, resonating with their immediate context.

The broadcast will take place at 7pm Eastern / 4pm Pacific.

RSVP for details/broadcast link.

$10+ minimum payment to musicians, $3 reservation fee.

About Groupmuse

Groupmuse is a worker- and musician-owned cooperative seeking to uplift artists and strengthen broader community bonds through live, intimate performances of historically-rooted music.

About Muzosynth Orchestra (formely The Moving Orchestra)

Sparked by informal jam sessions in living spaces, The Muzosynth Orchestra (pronounced MŪ-ZŌ-synth) is an eclectic mix of musicians, dancers, actors, and visual artists from all backgrounds in New York City. As of 2023, the ensemble works exclusively with BIPOC artists to provide a safer creative space. They specialize in workshopping programs heavily based on improvisation, featuring 3-10 performers made up of recurring and new artists. The programs are developed utilizing the skills and personalities of each performing group as well as the possibilities of each venue. TMO has performed in prominent venues as well as unconventional spaces such as St. John's in the Village, Arts on Site, SLEEPCENTER, Playwrights Downtown, Massawa, and MÔTÔ Spirits Distillery. In 2020, they produced a weekly series of online concerts called the "Zoom Jam Series" as well as a three-day online festival celebrating the anniversary of its inception. TMO received a 2022 Creative Learning Grant from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council for its Musical Lab workshop series for children, sharing collective improvisation techniques with young students. They are a fiscally sponsored organization through the Groupmuse Foundation and a resident artist at MÔTÔ Spirits Distillery.
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TMO's inception began at the very end of the summer of 2019, when six musicians came together for a friendly jam session in pianist Joey Chang's living room. He and violinist Katherine Kyu Hyeon Lim, with the help of dancers Carol Chave and Thomas A. Woodman, began workshopping ways to produce engaging group improvisation performances. Using a larger living space as a stepping stone, the ensemble started a monthly performance series, in unusual venues throughout New York City.
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"Muzosynth" is a combination of the words "music" and "synthesis," reflecting the group’s interdisciplinary nature, and "Orchestra" references the artists coming together as one.