Tomas Fujiwara & DoYeon Kim / Mary Halvorson: Clone Decay
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- Tomas Fujiwara, drums
- Doyeon Kim, gayageum
- Mary Halvorson, guitar
- Kalia Vandever, trombone
- Weston Olencki, trombone & electronics
Tomas Fujiwara (drums) and DoYeon Kim (gayageum) engage in a first time duo collaboration.
Mary Halvorson: Clone Decay is Mary Halvorson (guitar), Kalia Vandever (trombone) & Weston Olencki (trombone & electronics)
This project marks the first time meeting between these three musicians, featuring new compositions for two trombones and guitar, augmented by electronics and processing, to create a sound that begins as an acoustic trio and morphs into something else entirely.
This performance features a Next Jazz Legacy Awardee, made possible by New Music USA and the Berklee Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice with support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
About Tomas Fujiwara, drums
About Doyeon Kim, gayageum
Doyeon Kim is a traditionally trained Korean artist playing the gayageum, a traditional Korean string instrument. She has developed a uniquely broad approach to music, which incorporates Korean music, jazz, and improvisation, among other influences, and is credited with introducing the gayageum into the improvisational music scene worldwide. Her recent collaborative projects have broadened to include dancers, actors, and visual artists. Philosophically, she strives to demonstrate a broader approach to music by drawing from Korean tradition, improvisation, and the development of original playing techniques. "Over years of study…I became curious about how I could push past what the gayageum was supposed to do, and in that process, learned to push myself to a more honest me," says Kim.
During her traditional Korean training, Kim won numerous international competitions for her gayageum performances, including the Dong-A Ilbo Traditional Music Competition (Gold Prize, 2009), and the On-Nala Korean Music Competition (Gold Prize, 2011). She is also a graduate of the Contemporary Improvisation Department at the New England Conservatory of Music, where she was the first student ever admitted to the school playing any kind of Korean traditional instrument, and has recently joined the faculty.
Kim has worked with numerous composers, performing several world premieres, and has been an invited guest lecturer for gayageum and Asian music at many universities nationally and internationally. Her first album, GaPi (2017), featured an intimate synthesis of traditional music and jazz, and was nominated for a 2018 Korean Grammy Award in the crossover album category. More recently, Kim was an invited music director for Gyeonggi Sinawi Orchestra, a traditional music orchestra in Korea, was recognized by Grammy.com as one of the 7 Musicians Pushing Ancient Asian Instruments Into The Future (2021), and is performing projects at Roulette as a Van Lier Fellow (2023).
https://www.passim.org/artists/doyeon/About Mary Halvorson, guitar
About Kalia Vandever, trombone
About Weston Olencki, trombone & electronics
Weston Olencki is a musician, composer, and sound artist currently making work centered around questions of instrumental music and its contexts/constructs, various mediated practices of listening and improvisation, and the technological, material, and cultural histories of rural space/time.
http://www.westonolencki.com/