Christopher Pelham

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We have a new article up by Fieldmouse Press Executive Director Rob Clough about finding his calling in independent comics and community building. Putting his passion to work serving others unexpectedly led him into a new career. It`s a great, inspirational read, as are the works he publishes. Fieldmouse Press champions work that pushes boundaries, explores unique voices, and challenges conventions in the comics medium. https://onlylove.art/archives/2388. #fieldmousepress #robclough #comics #graphicnovels #independentcomics

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We have a new article up by Fieldmouse Press Executive Director Rob Clough about finding his calling in independent comics and community building. Putting his passion to work serving others unexpectedly led him into a new career. It's a great, inspirational read, as are the works he publishes. Fieldmouse Press champions work that pushes boundaries, explores unique voices, and challenges conventions in the comics medium. https://onlylove.art/archives/2388. #fieldmousepress #robclough #comics #graphicnovels #independentcomics
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1990年代から国際的に高い評価を受ける日本人アーティスト、森万里子。彼女の作品は今、これまで以上に多くの人の心に響いています。
情報と刺激があふれる現代において、彼女のアートは私たちに立ち止まる場所を与えてくれます。先入観を手放し、自分自身や他者、そして世界と静かに向き合うための場所を。
彼女が「Radiance（輝き）」と呼ぶもの――それは、万物に宿る光。彼女のアートは、その愛と輝きへと、私たちを静かに連れ戻してくれます。
詳細は記事からご確認ください。https://onlylove.art/ja/archives/2383

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1990年代から国際的に高い評価を受ける日本人アーティスト、森万里子。彼女の作品は今、これまで以上に多くの人の心に響いています。 情報と刺激があふれる現代において、彼女のアートは私たちに立ち止まる場所を与えてくれます。先入観を手放し、自分自身や他者、そして世界と静かに向き合うための場所を。 彼女が「Radiance（輝き）」と呼ぶもの――それは、万物に宿る光。彼女のアートは、その愛と輝きへと、私たちを静かに連れ戻してくれます。 詳細は記事からご確認ください。https://onlylove.art/ja/archives/2383
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So, Paul Hansen. He is the person who inspired me to explore this theme I call Art of Life. When we last talked on Zoom, he said something that stayed with me: artists have to find their own way to live because no two lives unfold the same way. While searching for my own next step, I wondered if I could learn something by asking my friends how they made their life decisions—how they shaped a way of living that felt true to them. In this interview, Paul repeated that the essence of life is a long chain of decisions made based on one’s own aesthetic sense, and that is what it means to be an artist. — Aine Fujioka.

https://onlylove.art/archives/2327

#paulhansen #ainefujioka #lifeinmusic

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So, Paul Hansen. He is the person who inspired me to explore this theme I call Art of Life. When we last talked on Zoom, he said something that stayed with me: artists have to find their own way to live because no two lives unfold the same way. While searching for my own next step, I wondered if I could learn something by asking my friends how they made their life decisions—how they shaped a way of living that felt true to them. In this interview, Paul repeated that the essence of life is a long chain of decisions made based on one’s own aesthetic sense, and that is what it means to be an artist. — Aine Fujioka. https://onlylove.art/archives/2327 #paulhansen #ainefujioka #lifeinmusic
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In a season marked by a surge of Asian-led theater in New York, director and playwright Tara Nyingyè is carving out her own luminous path. From her Mandarin-language reimagining of The Legend of the White Snake at HERE Arts Center to her newest English-language work, angels, Tara blends physical theater, psychological inquiry, and bold structural experimentation to ask timeless questions about love, choice, and repetition. As part of a new generation building not only productions but institutions, she and her collaborators are reshaping what contemporary theater can look and feel like — urgent, embodied, and unmistakably alive.

https://onlylove.art/archives/2353

#sparklingtheater #taranyingje #dreamborne #asiantheater #legendofthewhitesnake #qingbai #experimentaltheater

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In a season marked by a surge of Asian-led theater in New York, director and playwright Tara Nyingyè is carving out her own luminous path. From her Mandarin-language reimagining of The Legend of the White Snake at HERE Arts Center to her newest English-language work, angels, Tara blends physical theater, psychological inquiry, and bold structural experimentation to ask timeless questions about love, choice, and repetition. As part of a new generation building not only productions but institutions, she and her collaborators are reshaping what contemporary theater can look and feel like — urgent, embodied, and unmistakably alive. https://onlylove.art/archives/2353 #sparklingtheater #taranyingje #dreamborne #asiantheater #legendofthewhitesnake #qingbai #experimentaltheater
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"「あいち国際芸術祭2025」において、私たち13名のグループには、一つのハイライトがありました。
一緒に、“鳩と踊るダンスパフォーマンス”を観ることです。" https://onlylove.art/ja/archives/2320

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"「あいち国際芸術祭2025」において、私たち13名のグループには、一つのハイライトがありました。 一緒に、“鳩と踊るダンスパフォーマンス”を観ることです。" https://onlylove.art/ja/archives/2320
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"At the Aichi Triennale 2025, one experience stood out as a shared highlight for our group of thirteen: Bird by the brother-and-sister team Selma and Sofiane Ouissi. Doves make no effort to “collaborate” or to “create a good work.” For this reason, Sofiane must have needed a radically different reconstruction of bodily context than in dancing solo or with another human. That was what I wanted to witness." — Yasuko Kasaki

https://onlylove.art/archives/2293

#sofianeouissi #aichitriennale #dance #dancingwithanimals #contemporarydance

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"At the Aichi Triennale 2025, one experience stood out as a shared highlight for our group of thirteen: Bird by the brother-and-sister team Selma and Sofiane Ouissi. Doves make no effort to “collaborate” or to “create a good work.” For this reason, Sofiane must have needed a radically different reconstruction of bodily context than in dancing solo or with another human. That was what I wanted to witness." — Yasuko Kasaki https://onlylove.art/archives/2293 #sofianeouissi #aichitriennale #dance #dancingwithanimals #contemporarydance
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蓮見令麻の音楽は高みへと向かっていくが、その道のりは、深く荒れた水域を航行するかのようでもある。その旅はここ数年で新たな次元を帯びてきた。母としての歩みが、彼女の人生と芸術の両方を形作り直しているからだ。

https://onlylove.art/ja/archives/2315

#remahasumi #蓮見令麻 #motherhoodjourney #母性 #音楽

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蓮見令麻の音楽は高みへと向かっていくが、その道のりは、深く荒れた水域を航行するかのようでもある。その旅はここ数年で新たな次元を帯びてきた。母としての歩みが、彼女の人生と芸術の両方を形作り直しているからだ。 https://onlylove.art/ja/archives/2315 #remahasumi #蓮見令麻 #motherhoodjourney #母性 #音楽
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Before encountering the artworks themselves, the moment I stepped into the venue, I felt as though I were descending into the deep sea.

A profound stillness emerged—the kind found when one sinks toward the ocean floor, where only one’s inner pulse can be heard. I noticed my breath slowing, and I simply watched it do so. From the space itself, I sensed a quiet invitation: you can go deeper. At the same time, I felt momentarily overwhelmed by the intensity of the energy. I sat down, closed my eyes, and listened to the presence lingering in the air.

After about thirty minutes, I found myself guided toward a single work.
It was New Birth by Bassim Al-Shaker (b. 1986, Baghdad), an artist currently based in New York.

https://onlylove.art

#bassimalshaker #aichitriennale #aichitriennale2025 #megumimiyamoto #exhibition #painting #artjournalism

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Before encountering the artworks themselves, the moment I stepped into the venue, I felt as though I were descending into the deep sea. A profound stillness emerged—the kind found when one sinks toward the ocean floor, where only one’s inner pulse can be heard. I noticed my breath slowing, and I simply watched it do so. From the space itself, I sensed a quiet invitation: you can go deeper. At the same time, I felt momentarily overwhelmed by the intensity of the energy. I sat down, closed my eyes, and listened to the presence lingering in the air. After about thirty minutes, I found myself guided toward a single work. It was New Birth by Bassim Al-Shaker (b. 1986, Baghdad), an artist currently based in New York. https://onlylove.art #bassimalshaker #aichitriennale #aichitriennale2025 #megumimiyamoto #exhibition #painting #artjournalism
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The creations of Japanese artist Mariko Mori, a respected and well-known figure in the international art world since the 1990s, have never seemed more present, needed, and timely than now. Why? In an era saturated with stimuli, her work invites us to slow down, suspend our assumptions, and enter a quieter relationship with ourselves, one another, and the world. Her art calls us back to what she simply names Radiance, the light and interconnectedness that underlie everything. http://onlylove.art #seankelly #seankellygallery #marikomori #moriartmuseum #guggenheimmuseum #spiritualart #exhibition #artjournalism #japaneseart #radiance #japaneseartist

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The creations of Japanese artist Mariko Mori, a respected and well-known figure in the international art world since the 1990s, have never seemed more present, needed, and timely than now. Why? In an era saturated with stimuli, her work invites us to slow down, suspend our assumptions, and enter a quieter relationship with ourselves, one another, and the world. Her art calls us back to what she simply names Radiance, the light and interconnectedness that underlie everything. http://onlylove.art #seankelly #seankellygallery #marikomori #moriartmuseum #guggenheimmuseum #spiritualart #exhibition #artjournalism #japaneseart #radiance #japaneseartist
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New on https://onlylove.art — writer Yasuko Kasaki explores the Aichi Triennale, which brought together a diverse group of non-Western artists/group with twenty-six from Japan to respond to the horrific carnage and environmental destruction rampant around the world. The Triennale reexamines the serious issues that lie between humans and the environment, not from the anthropocentric perspectives of nation, territory, or ethnicity, but from a geological timeline. Rather than focusing on the extreme dichotomy of ashes (apocalypticism) or roses (optimism), it attempts to unravel the world through nuanced thinking in the space between.

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New on https://onlylove.art — writer Yasuko Kasaki explores the Aichi Triennale, which brought together a diverse group of non-Western artists/group with twenty-six from Japan to respond to the horrific carnage and environmental destruction rampant around the world. The Triennale reexamines the serious issues that lie between humans and the environment, not from the anthropocentric perspectives of nation, territory, or ethnicity, but from a geological timeline. Rather than focusing on the extreme dichotomy of ashes (apocalypticism) or roses (optimism), it attempts to unravel the world through nuanced thinking in the space between.
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"Among the countless fragments of memory vying to become the most precious, the one that lingers deepest within me is of a morning by the sea. In that fragment, I see myself sitting in a small coracle, watching an old starfish struggling in its quiet encounter with death." — @hai_yen_ho https://onlylove.art/archives/1863 #travelwriting #bìnhthuận #haiyenho #onlyloveart #fishermen

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"Among the countless fragments of memory vying to become the most precious, the one that lingers deepest within me is of a morning by the sea. In that fragment, I see myself sitting in a small coracle, watching an old starfish struggling in its quiet encounter with death." — @hai_yen_ho https://onlylove.art/archives/1863 #travelwriting #bìnhthuận #haiyenho #onlyloveart #fishermen
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We`re delighted to introduce a new series, Art of Life: Artists Who Create Their Own Lifestyles —
Conversations with Aine Fujioka. The first article in the series is a conversation with musician Todd Marston.

This series explores how artists forge unique paths in a world without set rules. Inspired by candid conversations with fellow creatives, the series delves into the choices, challenges, and freedoms of building a life in the arts. As our work landscape changes, these stories offer insight and inspiration for anyone seeking to create a meaningful, self-directed, and sustainable way of living. https://onlylove.art

#artistlifestyle #ainefujioka #toddmarston #musicianslife #musicianslifestyle

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We're delighted to introduce a new series, Art of Life: Artists Who Create Their Own Lifestyles — Conversations with Aine Fujioka. The first article in the series is a conversation with musician Todd Marston. This series explores how artists forge unique paths in a world without set rules. Inspired by candid conversations with fellow creatives, the series delves into the choices, challenges, and freedoms of building a life in the arts. As our work landscape changes, these stories offer insight and inspiration for anyone seeking to create a meaningful, self-directed, and sustainable way of living. https://onlylove.art #artistlifestyle #ainefujioka #toddmarston #musicianslife #musicianslifestyle
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We have a new article up by Fieldmouse Press Executive Director Rob Clough about finding his calling in independent comics and community building. Putting his passion to work serving others unexpectedly led him into a new career. It`s a great, inspirational read, as are the works he publishes. Fieldmouse Press champions work that pushes boundaries, explores unique voices, and challenges conventions in the comics medium. https://onlylove.art/archives/2388. #fieldmousepress #robclough #comics #graphicnovels #independentcomics

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We have a new article up by Fieldmouse Press Executive Director Rob Clough about finding his calling in independent comics and community building. Putting his passion to work serving others unexpectedly led him into a new career. It's a great, inspirational read, as are the works he publishes. Fieldmouse Press champions work that pushes boundaries, explores unique voices, and challenges conventions in the comics medium. https://onlylove.art/archives/2388. #fieldmousepress #robclough #comics #graphicnovels #independentcomics

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This weekend, CRS is sponsoring a couple of world premiere one-acts by the young Chinese theater company Dreamborne Theater at TheaterLabNYC in midtown Manhattan.
One of the two pieces, angels, by Tara Nyingjè, is a kind of duet of sorts between an actor and a jazz musician. It’s about the never-ending struggle to find balance, self-awareness, and peace of mind. It’s performed in English, set in a quiet bar, and structured as seven “loops” that re-stage the same existential dilemma under shifting regimes of observation, desire, and physical consequence. Night after night, a Messenger returns to learn the house rituals: how to move stealthily, how to “stay,” how to be watched without taking up space. Above her, a painting of cherubs and an overly tall mirror act as witnesses, looking up can mean trouble, and trying to see clearly can injure the body. As the piece moves through training, exchange, breakage, and aftermath, it arrives at an unsettling inheritance: not that no one arrives, but that visibility itself is governed: who gets to be seen, and at what cost.
The Spring That Never Came (performed in Mandarin Chinese) by the playwright Ye Ye follows Axin, an 18-year-old senior trapped by exam culture and the demand for a “secure” future. In her made-up theater universe, “Three Thousand Springwaters,” she summons the sex worker Gou, who claims to be a performance artist of the avant-garde spectrum. Up until Gou’s defiance fractures the universe and forces Axin to release Gou from his grip, the unseen “Audience” lords over her body, her desires, and her thoughts. What Axin has given up in order to stay alive must be confronted.
You can use this code to get discount tickets!
DBT2026
https://theaterlabnyc.com/dreamborne-theater/

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This weekend, CRS is sponsoring a couple of world premiere one-acts by the young Chinese theater company Dreamborne Theater at TheaterLabNYC in midtown Manhattan. One of the two pieces, angels, by Tara Nyingjè, is a kind of duet of sorts between an actor and a jazz musician. It’s about the never-ending struggle to find balance, self-awareness, and peace of mind. It’s performed in English, set in a quiet bar, and structured as seven “loops” that re-stage the same existential dilemma under shifting regimes of observation, desire, and physical consequence. Night after night, a Messenger returns to learn the house rituals: how to move stealthily, how to “stay,” how to be watched without taking up space. Above her, a painting of cherubs and an overly tall mirror act as witnesses, looking up can mean trouble, and trying to see clearly can injure the body. As the piece moves through training, exchange, breakage, and aftermath, it arrives at an unsettling inheritance: not that no one arrives, but that visibility itself is governed: who gets to be seen, and at what cost. The Spring That Never Came (performed in Mandarin Chinese) by the playwright Ye Ye follows Axin, an 18-year-old senior trapped by exam culture and the demand for a “secure” future. In her made-up theater universe, “Three Thousand Springwaters,” she summons the sex worker Gou, who claims to be a performance artist of the avant-garde spectrum. Up until Gou’s defiance fractures the universe and forces Axin to release Gou from his grip, the unseen “Audience” lords over her body, her desires, and her thoughts. What Axin has given up in order to stay alive must be confronted. You can use this code to get discount tickets! DBT2026 https://theaterlabnyc.com/dreamborne-theater/

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Created by gamin, Between Breaths is a meditation on lineage, transformation, and transcendence—where tradition is reimagined through feminist and intercultural lenses, and breath becomes memory, ritual, resistance, and future. Drawing on her monograph of family history and cultural heritage, she brings to life the stories of her foremothers through the sounds of traditional Korean wind instruments—the piri, saenghwang, and taepyeongso—blurring the lines between ritual and recital. Through improvisation and Korean modes, each breath becomes a vessel of resilience, migration, and belonging.

TICKETS:
https://withfriends.events/event/gnMixNT7/between-breaths-by-gamin/

#crossingboundaries #gamin #fridmangallery #newear #newmusic #koreanculture

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Created by gamin, Between Breaths is a meditation on lineage, transformation, and transcendence—where tradition is reimagined through feminist and intercultural lenses, and breath becomes memory, ritual, resistance, and future. Drawing on her monograph of family history and cultural heritage, she brings to life the stories of her foremothers through the sounds of traditional Korean wind instruments—the piri, saenghwang, and taepyeongso—blurring the lines between ritual and recital. Through improvisation and Korean modes, each breath becomes a vessel of resilience, migration, and belonging. TICKETS: https://withfriends.events/event/gnMixNT7/between-breaths-by-gamin/ #crossingboundaries #gamin #fridmangallery #newear #newmusic #koreanculture

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I have a new article out on musician Rema Hasumi, who just released a beautiful new album, Mothers. Rema`s music rises to higher ground, but it navigates deep and turbulent waters to get there. That journey has taken on new dimensions in recent years, as her journey through motherhood has reshaped both her life and art. https://onlylove.art #remahasumi #motherartist #womeninmusic #sythesizer #freejazz #pianomusic #motherhoodjourney #motherhood #mothers

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I have a new article out on musician Rema Hasumi, who just released a beautiful new album, Mothers. Rema's music rises to higher ground, but it navigates deep and turbulent waters to get there. That journey has taken on new dimensions in recent years, as her journey through motherhood has reshaped both her life and art. https://onlylove.art #remahasumi #motherartist #womeninmusic #sythesizer #freejazz #pianomusic #motherhoodjourney #motherhood #mothers

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Arles, France 2024

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Arles, France, Sept 3, 2024
#arles #arlesrencontresphotographiques #sunset

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Arles, France, Sept 3, 2024 #arles #arlesrencontresphotographiques #sunset

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Trois Chants Pour Cyber-Nostalgie I, II, III Composed by Jialin Liu Sheng solo with electronics Sheng performed by Li-chin Li This performance by Li-Chin Li (sheng) with electronics is from the concert series Paradise Laboratory presented by CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) at the White Room at CRS on June 25, 2023. PARADISE LABORATORY is a playground for sonic and visual experimentation. Conceived of during the pandemic by the renowned Korean traditional multi-instrumentalist, curator, and scholar gamin, Paradise Laboratory provides musical artists with opportunities to rehearse, record, film, and perform with other musical, visual, and dance artists in an experimental, process-oriented, and artist-centered fashion. ABOUT THE ARTISTS Born in Taichung, Taiwan, Li-Chin Li is a Sheng soloist, composer, and performer. Majored in Chinese Music at the Tainan National University of the Arts, Li-Chin received solid training in traditional music education. After graduation, she worked for the most selective and prestige Orchestra, Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra as a Sheng performer. Li-chin soon figured a nine-to-five job doesn’t’ suit her for making her own music and performing. Li-chin is known for her ability to apply Sheng to various art forms and music genres. Through her work, she is committed to exploring musicians’ subjectivity and diversity of roles in the performing arts. In October 2021, Li-Chin took part in a six-month residency program at the esteemed Cité internationale des arts in Paris. Handpicked by the Ministry of Culture, Taiwan, she seized this opportunity to collaborate with a diverse group of talented composers and musicians residing in France, culminating with her performance in the concert “Rencontre autour du Sheng à Paris” co-presented by the Italian Cultural Centre and Taiwan Cultiral Centre in Paris at the end of her residency there. The concert garnered praise from the French national radio program, “Journal de la Création,” making a significant impact on the exchange of contemporary music between Taiwan and France, as well as elevating Taiwan’s sheng music to an international stage. Recently, she has been selected as a member of IRCAM concert de l’atelier d’improvisation, ManiFeste-2022, and she has been guested with Ensemble LINEA and Ensemble CAIRN in 2022. Last but not least, she is a grantee of Asian Culture Council in New York 2023. https://lichinli.art/ Jialin LIU / 劉家麟, Chinese composer and sound artist born in 1995. He went to the Music Middle School of the Shanghai Conservatory at the age of 12. After moving to Europe in 2014, he studied with Marco Stroppa and Michael Reudenbach at the University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart. In 2018, he was selected by the IRCAM Cursus program for composition and computer music at Centre Pompidou Paris, mentored by Thierry de Mey and Mikhaïl Malt. Since 2019, he entered the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris (CNSMDP) for his Master study in composition with Frédéric Durieux, electronic music with Yan Maresz, Luis Naon and Grégoire Lorieux, and, since 2020, orchestration supérieur with Guillaume Connesson and Denis Cohen. https://www.jialinliu.com/ ABOUT THE PRESENTER CRS (CENTER FOR REMEMBERING & SHARING) is a spiritual healing and art center founded in 2004 by the writer/lecturer/spiritual counselor Yasuko Kasaki and artist Christopher Pelham. Our mission is guided by A Course in Miracles (ACIM). ACIM says that recognizing that you and your brother are actually one is the only way to experience peace. The mission of CRS is to promote the awareness that limitless creativity lives within each of us. We train minds to recognize the light in themselves and others and provide them opportunities to share their inner vision through the healing and creative arts. Since its founding CRS has provided numerous residencies and performance and exhibition opportunities to artists from all over the world. Currently, CRS is a multi-year sponsor of M³ (Mutual Mentorship for Musicians), a platform created to empower, elevate, normalize and give visibility to women, non-binary musicians and those of other historically underrepresented gender identities in intersection with race, sexuality, or ability across generations in the US and worldwide, through a radical model of mentorship and musical collaborative commissions. https://crsny.org

Trois Chants Pour Cyber-Nostalgie I, II, III
Composed by Jialin Liu
Sheng solo with electronics
Sheng performed by Li-chin Li

This performance by Li-Chin Li (sheng) with electronics is from the concert series Paradise Laboratory presented by CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) at the White Room at CRS on June 25, 2023.

PARADISE LABORATORY is a playground for sonic and visual experimentation. Conceived of during the pandemic by the renowned Korean traditional multi-instrumentalist, curator, and scholar gamin, Paradise Laboratory provides musical artists with opportunities to rehearse, record, film, and perform with other musical, visual, and dance artists in an experimental, process-oriented, and artist-centered fashion.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Born in Taichung, Taiwan, Li-Chin Li is a Sheng soloist, composer, and performer. Majored in Chinese Music at the Tainan National University of the Arts, Li-Chin received solid training in traditional music education. After graduation, she worked for the most selective and prestige Orchestra, Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra as a Sheng performer. Li-chin soon figured a nine-to-five job doesn’t’ suit her for making her own music and performing. Li-chin is known for her ability to apply Sheng to various art forms and music genres. Through her work, she is committed to exploring musicians’ subjectivity and diversity of roles in the performing arts.

In October 2021, Li-Chin took part in a six-month residency program at the esteemed Cité internationale des arts in Paris. Handpicked by the Ministry of Culture, Taiwan, she seized this opportunity to collaborate with a diverse group of talented composers and musicians residing in France, culminating with her performance in the concert “Rencontre autour du Sheng à Paris” co-presented by the Italian Cultural Centre and Taiwan Cultiral Centre in Paris at the end of her residency there. The concert garnered praise from the French national radio program, “Journal de la Création,” making a significant impact on the exchange of contemporary music between Taiwan and France, as well as elevating Taiwan’s sheng music to an international stage.

Recently, she has been selected as a member of IRCAM concert de l’atelier d’improvisation, ManiFeste-2022, and she has been guested with Ensemble LINEA and Ensemble CAIRN in 2022. Last but not least, she is a grantee of Asian Culture Council in New York 2023.

https://lichinli.art/

Jialin LIU / 劉家麟, Chinese composer and sound artist born in 1995. He went to the Music Middle School of the Shanghai Conservatory at the age of 12. After moving to Europe in 2014, he studied with Marco Stroppa and Michael Reudenbach at the University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart. In 2018, he was selected by the IRCAM Cursus program for composition and computer music at Centre Pompidou Paris, mentored by Thierry de Mey and Mikhaïl Malt. Since 2019, he entered the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris (CNSMDP) for his Master study in composition with Frédéric Durieux, electronic music with Yan Maresz, Luis Naon and Grégoire Lorieux, and, since 2020, orchestration supérieur with Guillaume Connesson and Denis Cohen.

https://www.jialinliu.com/

ABOUT THE PRESENTER

CRS (CENTER FOR REMEMBERING & SHARING) is a spiritual healing and art center founded in 2004 by the writer/lecturer/spiritual counselor Yasuko Kasaki and artist Christopher Pelham. Our mission is guided by A Course in Miracles (ACIM). ACIM says that recognizing that you and your brother are actually one is the only way to experience peace. The mission of CRS is to promote the awareness that limitless creativity lives within each of us. We train minds to recognize the light in themselves and others and provide them opportunities to share their inner vision through the healing and creative arts. Since its founding CRS has provided numerous residencies and performance and exhibition opportunities to artists from all over the world. Currently, CRS is a multi-year sponsor of M³ (Mutual Mentorship for Musicians), a platform created to empower, elevate, normalize and give visibility to women, non-binary musicians and those of other historically underrepresented gender identities in intersection with race, sexuality, or ability across generations in the US and worldwide, through a radical model of mentorship and musical collaborative commissions.

https://crsny.org

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CRS Presents Li-Chin Li (sheng) performing Trois Chants by Jialin Liu — June 25, 2023

CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) October 11, 2023 2:16 am

This performance by Li-Chin Li (sheng) with electronics is from the concert series Paradise Laboratory presented by CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) at the White Room at CRS on June 25, 2023. PARADISE LABORATORY is a playground for sonic and visual experimentation. Conceived of during the pandemic by the renowned Korean traditional multi-instrumentalist, curator, and scholar gamin, Paradise Laboratory provides musical artists with opportunities to rehearse, record, film, and perform with other musical, visual, and dance artists in an experimental, process-oriented, and artist-centered fashion. ABOUT THE ARTISTS Born in Taichung, Taiwan, Li-Chin Li is a Sheng soloist, composer, and performer. Majored in Chinese Music at the Tainan National University of the Arts, Li-Chin received solid training in traditional music education. After graduation, she worked for the most selective and prestige Orchestra, Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra as a Sheng performer. Li-chin soon figured a nine-to-five job doesn’t’ suit her for making her own music and performing. Li-chin is known for her ability to apply Sheng to various art forms and music genres. Through her work, she is committed to exploring musicians’ subjectivity and diversity of roles in the performing arts. In October 2021, Li-Chin took part in a six-month residency program at the esteemed Cité internationale des arts in Paris. Handpicked by the Ministry of Culture, Taiwan, she seized this opportunity to collaborate with a diverse group of talented composers and musicians residing in France, culminating with her performance in the concert “Rencontre autour du Sheng à Paris” co-presented by the Italian Cultural Centre and Taiwan Cultiral Centre in Paris at the end of her residency there. The concert garnered praise from the French national radio program, “Journal de la Création,” making a significant impact on the exchange of contemporary music between Taiwan and France, as well as elevating Taiwan’s sheng music to an international stage. Recently, she has been selected as a member of IRCAM concert de l’atelier d’improvisation, ManiFeste-2022, and she has been guested with Ensemble LINEA and Ensemble CAIRN in 2022. Last but not least, she is a grantee of Asian Culture Council in New York 2023. https://lichinli.art/ Composer Francisco Uberto (b.1988) shapes his musical ideas with intuition from within the digital side of sound. In his music he manages expectations in the most imaginative ways possible, like a cold war of emotions. The horizon of his realizations extend from solo pieces to orchestral works with and without the use of electronics. He received training in composition in Argentina (UNC), and France (CNSMD Paris, and IRCAM), and was supported by several prestigious foundations from Europe, and Argentina since 2012. His music has been vibrating with renowned international ensembles since his arrival in Europe. Resident composer at Casa de Velázquez, Ibermúsicas, and Cité des Arts, Francisco, today is composer in residence at Couvent des Récollets in Paris. https://www.franciscouberto.com/ ABOUT THE PRESENTER CRS (CENTER FOR REMEMBERING & SHARING) is a spiritual healing and art center founded in 2004 by the writer/lecturer/spiritual counselor Yasuko Kasaki and artist Christopher Pelham. Our mission is guided by A Course in Miracles (ACIM). ACIM says that recognizing that you and your brother are actually one is the only way to experience peace. The mission of CRS is to promote the awareness that limitless creativity lives within each of us. We train minds to recognize the light in themselves and others and provide them opportunities to share their inner vision through the healing and creative arts. Since its founding CRS has provided numerous residencies and performance and exhibition opportunities to artists from all over the world. Currently, CRS is a multi-year sponsor of M³ (Mutual Mentorship for Musicians), a platform created to empower, elevate, normalize and give visibility to women, non-binary musicians and those of other historically underrepresented gender identities in intersection with race, sexuality, or ability across generations in the US and worldwide, through a radical model of mentorship and musical collaborative commissions. https://crsny.org

This performance by Li-Chin Li (sheng) with electronics is from the concert series Paradise Laboratory presented by CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) at the White Room at CRS on June 25, 2023.

PARADISE LABORATORY is a playground for sonic and visual experimentation. Conceived of during the pandemic by the renowned Korean traditional multi-instrumentalist, curator, and scholar gamin, Paradise Laboratory provides musical artists with opportunities to rehearse, record, film, and perform with other musical, visual, and dance artists in an experimental, process-oriented, and artist-centered fashion.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Born in Taichung, Taiwan, Li-Chin Li is a Sheng soloist, composer, and performer. Majored in Chinese Music at the Tainan National University of the Arts, Li-Chin received solid training in traditional music education. After graduation, she worked for the most selective and prestige Orchestra, Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra as a Sheng performer. Li-chin soon figured a nine-to-five job doesn’t’ suit her for making her own music and performing. Li-chin is known for her ability to apply Sheng to various art forms and music genres. Through her work, she is committed to exploring musicians’ subjectivity and diversity of roles in the performing arts.

In October 2021, Li-Chin took part in a six-month residency program at the esteemed Cité internationale des arts in Paris. Handpicked by the Ministry of Culture, Taiwan, she seized this opportunity to collaborate with a diverse group of talented composers and musicians residing in France, culminating with her performance in the concert “Rencontre autour du Sheng à Paris” co-presented by the Italian Cultural Centre and Taiwan Cultiral Centre in Paris at the end of her residency there. The concert garnered praise from the French national radio program, “Journal de la Création,” making a significant impact on the exchange of contemporary music between Taiwan and France, as well as elevating Taiwan’s sheng music to an international stage.

Recently, she has been selected as a member of IRCAM concert de l’atelier d’improvisation, ManiFeste-2022, and she has been guested with Ensemble LINEA and Ensemble CAIRN in 2022. Last but not least, she is a grantee of Asian Culture Council in New York 2023.

https://lichinli.art/

Composer Francisco Uberto (b.1988) shapes his musical ideas with intuition from within the digital side of sound. In his music he manages expectations in the most imaginative ways possible, like a cold war of emotions. The horizon of his realizations extend from solo pieces to orchestral works with and without the use of electronics.
He received training in composition in Argentina (UNC), and France (CNSMD Paris, and IRCAM), and was supported by several prestigious foundations from Europe, and Argentina since 2012.
His music has been vibrating with renowned international ensembles since his arrival in Europe. Resident composer at Casa de Velázquez, Ibermúsicas, and Cité des Arts, Francisco, today is composer in residence at Couvent des Récollets in Paris.

https://www.franciscouberto.com/

ABOUT THE PRESENTER

CRS (CENTER FOR REMEMBERING & SHARING) is a spiritual healing and art center founded in 2004 by the writer/lecturer/spiritual counselor Yasuko Kasaki and artist Christopher Pelham. Our mission is guided by A Course in Miracles (ACIM). ACIM says that recognizing that you and your brother are actually one is the only way to experience peace. The mission of CRS is to promote the awareness that limitless creativity lives within each of us. We train minds to recognize the light in themselves and others and provide them opportunities to share their inner vision through the healing and creative arts. Since its founding CRS has provided numerous residencies and performance and exhibition opportunities to artists from all over the world. Currently, CRS is a multi-year sponsor of M³ (Mutual Mentorship for Musicians), a platform created to empower, elevate, normalize and give visibility to women, non-binary musicians and those of other historically underrepresented gender identities in intersection with race, sexuality, or ability across generations in the US and worldwide, through a radical model of mentorship and musical collaborative commissions.

https://crsny.org

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CRS Presents Li-Chin Li (sheng) performing Paradise by Francisco Uberto — June 25, 2023

CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) October 10, 2023 11:28 pm

This performance by Li-Chin Li (sheng) with electronics is from the concert series Paradise Laboratory presented by CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) at the White Room at CRS on June 25, 2023. PARADISE LABORATORY is a playground for sonic and visual experimentation. Conceived of during the pandemic by the renowned Korean traditional multi-instrumentalist, curator, and scholar gamin, Paradise Laboratory provides musical artists with opportunities to rehearse, record, film, and perform with other musical, visual, and dance artists in an experimental, process-oriented, and artist-centered fashion. ABOUT THE ARTISTS Born in Taichung, Taiwan, Li-Chin Li is a Sheng soloist, composer, and performer. Majored in Chinese Music at the Tainan National University of the Arts, Li-Chin received solid training in traditional music education. After graduation, she worked for the most selective and prestige Orchestra, Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra as a Sheng performer. Li-chin soon figured a nine-to-five job doesn’t’ suit her for making her own music and performing. Li-chin is known for her ability to apply Sheng to various art forms and music genres. Through her work, she is committed to exploring musicians’ subjectivity and diversity of roles in the performing arts. In October 2021, Li-Chin took part in a six-month residency program at the esteemed Cité internationale des arts in Paris. Handpicked by the Ministry of Culture, Taiwan, she seized this opportunity to collaborate with a diverse group of talented composers and musicians residing in France, culminating with her performance in the concert “Rencontre autour du Sheng à Paris” co-presented by the Italian Cultural Centre and Taiwan Cultiral Centre in Paris at the end of her residency there. The concert garnered praise from the French national radio program, “Journal de la Création,” making a significant impact on the exchange of contemporary music between Taiwan and France, as well as elevating Taiwan’s sheng music to an international stage. Recently, she has been selected as a member of IRCAM concert de l’atelier d’improvisation, ManiFeste-2022, and she has been guested with Ensemble LINEA and Ensemble CAIRN in 2022. Last but not least, she is a grantee of Asian Culture Council in New York 2023. https://lichinli.art/ Composer Heng Chen was born in Taipei in 1990. He began learning the piano and violin at the age of five, and in high school, he studied composition and music theory under Prof. Hsiao Ching-Yu. He received his Bachelor's Degree in Composition at the National University of Arts, Taipei (TNUA) with Prof. Pan Hwang-Long, and later with Prof. Tsai Ling-Huei. In 2013, he moved to Paris to continue his studies at the Boulogne-Billancourt National Conservatory with Jean-Luc Hervé. He attended classes in orchestration (with Pierre Farago) and electronic-acoustic (with Yan Maresz) and obtained a Diploma of Musical Studies (Diplôme d'études musicales). He also studied composition at the Paris Conservatory (CNSMDP) under Gérard Pesson. Furthermore, he has been taught by Alberto Posadas, Beat Furrer, Bruno Mantovani, Chinary Ung, Joel Hoffman, Deqing Wen, and Kee Yong Chong at various musical academies. His musical works have been performed in Taiwan, Korea, Italy, and France. https://soundcloud.com/chenhengtw ABOUT THE PRESENTER CRS (CENTER FOR REMEMBERING & SHARING) is a spiritual healing and art center founded in 2004 by the writer/lecturer/spiritual counselor Yasuko Kasaki and artist Christopher Pelham. Our mission is guided by A Course in Miracles (ACIM). ACIM says that recognizing that you and your brother are actually one is the only way to experience peace. The mission of CRS is to promote the awareness that limitless creativity lives within each of us. We train minds to recognize the light in themselves and others and provide them opportunities to share their inner vision through the healing and creative arts. Since its founding CRS has provided numerous residencies and performance and exhibition opportunities to artists from all over the world. Currently, CRS is a multi-year sponsor of M³ (Mutual Mentorship for Musicians), a platform created to empower, elevate, normalize and give visibility to women, non-binary musicians and those of other historically underrepresented gender identities in intersection with race, sexuality, or ability across generations in the US and worldwide, through a radical model of mentorship and musical collaborative commissions. https://crsny.org

This performance by Li-Chin Li (sheng) with electronics is from the concert series Paradise Laboratory presented by CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) at the White Room at CRS on June 25, 2023.

PARADISE LABORATORY is a playground for sonic and visual experimentation. Conceived of during the pandemic by the renowned Korean traditional multi-instrumentalist, curator, and scholar gamin, Paradise Laboratory provides musical artists with opportunities to rehearse, record, film, and perform with other musical, visual, and dance artists in an experimental, process-oriented, and artist-centered fashion.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Born in Taichung, Taiwan, Li-Chin Li is a Sheng soloist, composer, and performer. Majored in Chinese Music at the Tainan National University of the Arts, Li-Chin received solid training in traditional music education. After graduation, she worked for the most selective and prestige Orchestra, Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra as a Sheng performer. Li-chin soon figured a nine-to-five job doesn’t’ suit her for making her own music and performing. Li-chin is known for her ability to apply Sheng to various art forms and music genres. Through her work, she is committed to exploring musicians’ subjectivity and diversity of roles in the performing arts.

In October 2021, Li-Chin took part in a six-month residency program at the esteemed Cité internationale des arts in Paris. Handpicked by the Ministry of Culture, Taiwan, she seized this opportunity to collaborate with a diverse group of talented composers and musicians residing in France, culminating with her performance in the concert “Rencontre autour du Sheng à Paris” co-presented by the Italian Cultural Centre and Taiwan Cultiral Centre in Paris at the end of her residency there. The concert garnered praise from the French national radio program, “Journal de la Création,” making a significant impact on the exchange of contemporary music between Taiwan and France, as well as elevating Taiwan’s sheng music to an international stage.

Recently, she has been selected as a member of IRCAM concert de l’atelier d’improvisation, ManiFeste-2022, and she has been guested with Ensemble LINEA and Ensemble CAIRN in 2022. Last but not least, she is a grantee of Asian Culture Council in New York 2023.

https://lichinli.art/

Composer Heng Chen was born in Taipei in 1990. He began learning the piano and violin at the age of five, and in high school, he studied composition and music theory under Prof. Hsiao Ching-Yu. He received his Bachelor's Degree in Composition at the National University of Arts, Taipei (TNUA) with Prof. Pan Hwang-Long, and later with Prof. Tsai Ling-Huei. In 2013, he moved to Paris to continue his studies at the Boulogne-Billancourt National Conservatory with Jean-Luc Hervé. He attended classes in orchestration (with Pierre Farago) and electronic-acoustic (with Yan Maresz) and obtained a Diploma of Musical Studies (Diplôme d'études musicales). He also studied composition at the Paris Conservatory (CNSMDP) under Gérard Pesson. Furthermore, he has been taught by Alberto Posadas, Beat Furrer, Bruno Mantovani, Chinary Ung, Joel Hoffman, Deqing Wen, and Kee Yong Chong at various musical academies. His musical works have been performed in Taiwan, Korea, Italy, and France.

https://soundcloud.com/chenhengtw

ABOUT THE PRESENTER

CRS (CENTER FOR REMEMBERING & SHARING) is a spiritual healing and art center founded in 2004 by the writer/lecturer/spiritual counselor Yasuko Kasaki and artist Christopher Pelham. Our mission is guided by A Course in Miracles (ACIM). ACIM says that recognizing that you and your brother are actually one is the only way to experience peace. The mission of CRS is to promote the awareness that limitless creativity lives within each of us. We train minds to recognize the light in themselves and others and provide them opportunities to share their inner vision through the healing and creative arts. Since its founding CRS has provided numerous residencies and performance and exhibition opportunities to artists from all over the world. Currently, CRS is a multi-year sponsor of M³ (Mutual Mentorship for Musicians), a platform created to empower, elevate, normalize and give visibility to women, non-binary musicians and those of other historically underrepresented gender identities in intersection with race, sexuality, or ability across generations in the US and worldwide, through a radical model of mentorship and musical collaborative commissions.

https://crsny.org

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CRS Presents Li-Chin Li (sheng) performing Vox 1 by Heng Chen — June 25, 2023

CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) October 10, 2023 9:46 pm

CRS Presents Paradise Laboratory: Hell in Paradise Li-Chin Li & Jeonghyeon Joo improvised duet PARADISE LABORATORY is a playground for sonic and visual experimentation. Conceived of during the pandemic by the renowned Korean traditional multi-instrumentalist, curator, and scholar gamin, Paradise Laboratory provides musical artists with opportunities to rehearse, record, film, and perform with other musical, visual, and dance artists in an experimental, process-oriented, and artist-centered fashion. ABOUT THE ARTISTS Born in Taichung, Taiwan, Li-Chin Li is a Sheng soloist, composer, and performer. Majored in Chinese Music at the Tainan National University of the Arts, Li-Chin received solid training in traditional music education. After graduation, she worked for the most selective and prestige Orchestra, Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra as a Sheng performer. Li-chin soon figured a nine-to-five job doesn’t’ suit her for making her own music and performing. Li-chin is known for her ability to apply Sheng to various art forms and music genres. Through her work, she is committed to exploring musicians’ subjectivity and diversity of roles in the performing arts. In October 2021, Li-Chin took part in a six-month residency program at the esteemed Cité internationale des arts in Paris. Handpicked by the Ministry of Culture, Taiwan, she seized this opportunity to collaborate with a diverse group of talented composers and musicians residing in France, culminating with her performance in the concert “Rencontre autour du Sheng à Paris” co-presented by the Italian Cultural Centre and Taiwan Cultiral Centre in Paris at the end of her residency there. The concert garnered praise from the French national radio program, “Journal de la Création,” making a significant impact on the exchange of contemporary music between Taiwan and France, as well as elevating Taiwan’s sheng music to an international stage. Recently, she has been selected as a member of IRCAM concert de l’atelier d’improvisation, ManiFeste-2022, and she has been guested with Ensemble LINEA and Ensemble CAIRN in 2022. Last but not least, she is a grantee of Asian Culture Council in New York 2023. https://lichinli.art/ Jeonghyeon Joo is an award-winning haegeum performer, composer, improviser, and researcher who is an ardent advocate for new and experimental music. Joo’s work explores the somatic, corporeal relationship between musical instrument and body, frequently collaborating with composers, performers, visual artists, choreographers, film directors, and dancers. Her recent projects have been supported by Arts Council Korea and Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture. She is currently pursuing a DMA at the California Institute of the Arts and is on faculty at the California Institute of the Arts and Seoul Institute of the Arts. https://www.joowork.com ABOUT THE PRESENTER CRS (CENTER FOR REMEMBERING & SHARING) is a spiritual healing and art center founded in 2004 by the writer/lecturer/spiritual counselor Yasuko Kasaki and artist Christopher Pelham. Our mission is guided by A Course in Miracles (ACIM). ACIM says that recognizing that you and your brother are actually one is the only way to experience peace. The mission of CRS is to promote the awareness that limitless creativity lives within each of us. We train minds to recognize the light in themselves and others and provide them opportunities to share their inner vision through the healing and creative arts. Since its founding CRS has provided numerous residencies and performance and exhibition opportunities to artists from all over the world. Currently, CRS is a multi-year sponsor of M³ (Mutual Mentorship for Musicians), a platform created to empower, elevate, normalize and give visibility to women, non-binary musicians and those of other historically underrepresented gender identities in intersection with race, sexuality, or ability across generations in the US and worldwide, through a radical model of mentorship and musical collaborative commissions. https://crsny.org

CRS Presents Paradise Laboratory: Hell in Paradise
Li-Chin Li & Jeonghyeon Joo improvised duet

PARADISE LABORATORY is a playground for sonic and visual experimentation. Conceived of during the pandemic by the renowned Korean traditional multi-instrumentalist, curator, and scholar gamin, Paradise Laboratory provides musical artists with opportunities to rehearse, record, film, and perform with other musical, visual, and dance artists in an experimental, process-oriented, and artist-centered fashion.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Born in Taichung, Taiwan, Li-Chin Li is a Sheng soloist, composer, and performer. Majored in Chinese Music at the Tainan National University of the Arts, Li-Chin received solid training in traditional music education. After graduation, she worked for the most selective and prestige Orchestra, Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra as a Sheng performer. Li-chin soon figured a nine-to-five job doesn’t’ suit her for making her own music and performing. Li-chin is known for her ability to apply Sheng to various art forms and music genres. Through her work, she is committed to exploring musicians’ subjectivity and diversity of roles in the performing arts.

In October 2021, Li-Chin took part in a six-month residency program at the esteemed Cité internationale des arts in Paris. Handpicked by the Ministry of Culture, Taiwan, she seized this opportunity to collaborate with a diverse group of talented composers and musicians residing in France, culminating with her performance in the concert “Rencontre autour du Sheng à Paris” co-presented by the Italian Cultural Centre and Taiwan Cultiral Centre in Paris at the end of her residency there. The concert garnered praise from the French national radio program, “Journal de la Création,” making a significant impact on the exchange of contemporary music between Taiwan and France, as well as elevating Taiwan’s sheng music to an international stage.

Recently, she has been selected as a member of IRCAM concert de l’atelier d’improvisation, ManiFeste-2022, and she has been guested with Ensemble LINEA and Ensemble CAIRN in 2022. Last but not least, she is a grantee of Asian Culture Council in New York 2023.

https://lichinli.art/

Jeonghyeon Joo is an award-winning haegeum performer, composer, improviser, and researcher who is an ardent advocate for new and experimental music. Joo’s work explores the somatic, corporeal relationship between musical instrument and body, frequently collaborating with composers, performers, visual artists, choreographers, film directors, and dancers. Her recent projects have been supported by Arts Council Korea and Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture. She is currently pursuing a DMA at the California Institute of the Arts and is on faculty at the California Institute of the Arts and Seoul Institute of the Arts.

https://www.joowork.com

ABOUT THE PRESENTER

CRS (CENTER FOR REMEMBERING & SHARING) is a spiritual healing and art center founded in 2004 by the writer/lecturer/spiritual counselor Yasuko Kasaki and artist Christopher Pelham. Our mission is guided by A Course in Miracles (ACIM). ACIM says that recognizing that you and your brother are actually one is the only way to experience peace. The mission of CRS is to promote the awareness that limitless creativity lives within each of us. We train minds to recognize the light in themselves and others and provide them opportunities to share their inner vision through the healing and creative arts. Since its founding CRS has provided numerous residencies and performance and exhibition opportunities to artists from all over the world. Currently, CRS is a multi-year sponsor of M³ (Mutual Mentorship for Musicians), a platform created to empower, elevate, normalize and give visibility to women, non-binary musicians and those of other historically underrepresented gender identities in intersection with race, sexuality, or ability across generations in the US and worldwide, through a radical model of mentorship and musical collaborative commissions.

https://crsny.org

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CRS Presents Li-Chin Li & Jeonghyeon Joo — Duet Improvisation — June 25, 2023

CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) August 26, 2023 8:29 pm

CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) presents Wednesdays at Noon Music Video Series Episode 28: Paradise Laboratory with gamin & Jungwoon Kim 2 Improvised by Jungwoon Kim — dance gamin — piri Video & Editing by Christopher Pelham https://chrispelham.com @christopher_pelham Filmed in the White Room at CRS, NYC on February 6, 2022 Created in collaboration with musicians and dancers primarily of Asian and Middle-Eastern origin or descent, the WEDNESDAYS AT NOON music video series provides a playground for unusual collaborations and creative experimentation. The works featured include both composed/choreographed and improvised performances and take aim at the perceived boundary between traditional and contemporary. ABOUT THE ARTISTS Born and raised in South Korea, Jungwoong Kim has been a dancer, choreographer, media artist, arts educator and contact improvisation teacher for more than 20 years. He has extensive training in martial arts and Korean traditional dance and ritual, both of which strongly inform his artistic vision and aesthetic. He has done performances in contact improvisation and other dance styles with Katie Duck, Kurt Koegel, Hiekyoung Blanz, Kristie Simpson, Karen Nelson, Chris Aiken, Leah Stein, and Marion Ramirez, among others. As a resident artist at Philadelphia’s Asian Arts Initiative, he created and collaborated in a series of performance works dealing with catastrophic events and sudden human loss, including the 2014 Sewol Ferry disaster off the coast of South Korea. In connection with this body of work, in 2015 he was awarded a multi-year grant from The Pew Center for Arts and Heritage for SaltSoul, a multi-disciplinary, multi-site, durational performance project. Jungwoong has taught improvisation and contact improvisation at numerous universities and independent workshops in the U.S., Europe, Japan and South Korea. For the fall 2021 semester he was a guest artist/choreographer at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster PA. He recently received a 2021 ART IS PHL award from the Philadelphia Housing Development Corporation for creation of Gather Together in Their Name, a public art project that speaks to the interruption of community memorial rituals in the time of COVID. Lately he has enjoyed working with Philadelphia’s Wilma Theater as the movement consultant for an uproariously physical interpretation of Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard, directed by Dmitry Krymov, which played to sold-out audiences and rave reviews in April/ May 2022. In June 2022 he was a featured artist in performances at the 25th anniversary celebration of Philadelphia Dance Projects. https://www.aha-k-pro.org/ gamin is a distinguished NYC soloist who tours the world performing both traditional Korean music and cross-disciplinary collaborations. gamin plays piri (double reed Korean oboe), taepyeonso (double-reed horn), and saenghwang (mouth organ). She is a designated Yisuja, official holder of Important Intangible Cultural Asset No. 46 for Court and Royal Military music. Re-inventing new sonorities from ancient, somewhat restrictive, musical systems, gamin has received several cultural exchange program grants, including Artist-in-Residence (2014) at the Asian Cultural Council, and Ministry of Culture, Sports, Tourism of Republic of Korea (2012). gamin has collaborated in cross-cultural improvisation in NYC with world-acclaimed musician Jane Ira Bloom, Elliot Sharp, Ned Rothenberg, presenting premieres at Roulette Theater, New School, and Metropolitan Museum. gamin was featured artist at the Silkroad concert, Seoul, 2018, performing on-stage with Yo-Yo Ma. gamin, as soloist, has scheduled her Carnegie Hall debut with the Nangye Gugak Orchestra in coming year. She has been a curator for the Crossing Boundaries Concert Series, which she helped to conceive, at CRS since 2018. https://gaminmusic.com @gamin_ny https://crsny.org https://www.instagram.com/crsnyorg/

CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) presents
Wednesdays at Noon Music Video Series Episode 28:
Paradise Laboratory with gamin & Jungwoon Kim 2

Improvised by
Jungwoon Kim — dance
gamin — piri


Video & Editing by
Christopher Pelham
https://chrispelham.com
@christopher_pelham

Filmed in the White Room at CRS, NYC
on February 6, 2022

Created in collaboration with musicians and dancers primarily of Asian and Middle-Eastern origin or descent, the WEDNESDAYS AT NOON music video series provides a playground for unusual collaborations and creative experimentation. The works featured include both composed/choreographed and improvised performances and take aim at the perceived boundary between traditional and contemporary.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Born and raised in South Korea, Jungwoong Kim has been a dancer, choreographer, media artist, arts educator and contact improvisation teacher for more than 20 years. He has extensive training in martial arts and Korean traditional dance and ritual, both of which strongly inform his artistic vision and aesthetic. He has done performances in contact improvisation and other dance styles with Katie Duck, Kurt Koegel, Hiekyoung Blanz, Kristie Simpson, Karen Nelson, Chris Aiken, Leah Stein, and Marion Ramirez, among others. As a resident artist at Philadelphia’s Asian Arts Initiative, he created and collaborated in a series of performance works dealing with catastrophic events and sudden human loss, including the 2014 Sewol Ferry disaster off the coast of South Korea. In connection with this body of work, in 2015 he was awarded a multi-year grant from The Pew Center for Arts and Heritage for SaltSoul, a multi-disciplinary, multi-site, durational performance project.

Jungwoong has taught improvisation and contact improvisation at numerous universities and independent workshops in the U.S., Europe, Japan and South Korea. For the fall 2021 semester he was a guest artist/choreographer at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster PA. He recently received a 2021 ART IS PHL award from the Philadelphia Housing Development Corporation for creation of Gather Together in Their Name, a public art project that speaks to the interruption of community memorial rituals in the time of COVID. Lately he has enjoyed working with Philadelphia’s Wilma Theater as the movement consultant for an uproariously physical interpretation of Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard, directed by Dmitry Krymov, which played to sold-out audiences and rave reviews in April/ May 2022. In June 2022 he was a featured artist in performances at the 25th anniversary celebration of Philadelphia Dance Projects.

https://www.aha-k-pro.org/

gamin is a distinguished NYC soloist who tours the world performing both traditional Korean music and cross-disciplinary collaborations. gamin plays piri (double reed Korean oboe), taepyeonso (double-reed horn), and saenghwang (mouth organ). She is a designated Yisuja, official holder of Important Intangible Cultural Asset No. 46 for Court and Royal Military music. Re-inventing new sonorities from ancient, somewhat restrictive, musical systems, gamin has received several cultural exchange program grants, including Artist-in-Residence (2014) at the Asian Cultural Council, and Ministry of Culture, Sports, Tourism of Republic of Korea (2012). gamin has collaborated in cross-cultural improvisation in NYC with world-acclaimed musician Jane Ira Bloom, Elliot Sharp, Ned Rothenberg, presenting premieres at Roulette Theater, New School, and Metropolitan Museum. gamin was featured artist at the Silkroad concert, Seoul, 2018, performing on-stage with Yo-Yo Ma. gamin, as soloist, has scheduled her Carnegie Hall debut with the Nangye Gugak Orchestra in coming year. She has been a curator for the Crossing Boundaries Concert Series, which she helped to conceive, at CRS since 2018.
https://gaminmusic.com
@gamin_ny

https://crsny.org
https://www.instagram.com/crsnyorg/

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Wednesdays at Noon 28 — Paradise Laboratory with gamin & Jungwoon Kim 2

CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) September 21, 2022 4:00 pm

CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) presents Wednesdays at Noon Music Video Series Episode 27: Paradise Laboratory with gamin & Jungwoon Kim 1 Improvised by Jungwoon Kim — dance and voice gamin — piri and saenghwang Video Editing by Christopher Pelham https://chrispelham.com @christopher_pelham Filmed in the White Room at CRS, NYC on February 6, 2022 Created in collaboration with musicians and dancers primarily of Asian and Middle-Eastern origin or descent, the WEDNESDAYS AT NOON music video series provides a playground for unusual collaborations and creative experimentation. The works featured include both composed/choreographed and improvised performances and take aim at the perceived boundary between traditional and contemporary. ABOUT THE ARTISTS Born and raised in South Korea, Jungwoong Kim has been a dancer, choreographer, media artist, arts educator and contact improvisation teacher for more than 20 years. He has extensive training in martial arts and Korean traditional dance and ritual, both of which strongly inform his artistic vision and aesthetic. He has done performances in contact improvisation and other dance styles with Katie Duck, Kurt Koegel, Hiekyoung Blanz, Kristie Simpson, Karen Nelson, Chris Aiken, Leah Stein, and Marion Ramirez, among others. As a resident artist at Philadelphia’s Asian Arts Initiative, he created and collaborated in a series of performance works dealing with catastrophic events and sudden human loss, including the 2014 Sewol Ferry disaster off the coast of South Korea. In connection with this body of work, in 2015 he was awarded a multi-year grant from The Pew Center for Arts and Heritage for SaltSoul, a multi-disciplinary, multi-site, durational performance project. Jungwoong has taught improvisation and contact improvisation at numerous universities and independent workshops in the U.S., Europe, Japan and South Korea. For the fall 2021 semester he was a guest artist/choreographer at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster PA. He recently received a 2021 ART IS PHL award from the Philadelphia Housing Development Corporation for creation of Gather Together in Their Name, a public art project that speaks to the interruption of community memorial rituals in the time of COVID. Lately he has enjoyed working with Philadelphia’s Wilma Theater as the movement consultant for an uproariously physical interpretation of Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard, directed by Dmitry Krymov, which played to sold-out audiences and rave reviews in April/ May 2022. In June 2022 he was a featured artist in performances at the 25th anniversary celebration of Philadelphia Dance Projects. https://www.aha-k-pro.org/ gamin is a distinguished NYC soloist who tours the world performing both traditional Korean music and cross-disciplinary collaborations. gamin plays piri (double reed Korean oboe), taepyeonso (double-reed horn), and saenghwang (mouth organ). She is a designated Yisuja, official holder of Important Intangible Cultural Asset No. 46 for Court and Royal Military music. Re-inventing new sonorities from ancient, somewhat restrictive, musical systems, gamin has received several cultural exchange program grants, including Artist-in-Residence (2014) at the Asian Cultural Council, and Ministry of Culture, Sports, Tourism of Republic of Korea (2012). gamin has collaborated in cross-cultural improvisation in NYC with world-acclaimed musician Jane Ira Bloom, Elliot Sharp, Ned Rothenberg, presenting premieres at Roulette Theater, New School, and Metropolitan Museum. gamin was featured artist at the Silkroad concert, Seoul, 2018, performing on-stage with Yo-Yo Ma. gamin, as soloist, has scheduled her Carnegie Hall debut with the Nangye Gugak Orchestra in coming year. She has been a curator for the Crossing Boundaries Concert Series, which she helped to conceive, at CRS since 2018. https://gaminmusic.com @gamin_ny https://crsny.org https://www.instagram.com/crsnyorg/

CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) presents
Wednesdays at Noon Music Video Series Episode 27:
Paradise Laboratory with gamin & Jungwoon Kim 1

Improvised by
Jungwoon Kim — dance and voice
gamin — piri and saenghwang


Video Editing by
Christopher Pelham
https://chrispelham.com
@christopher_pelham

Filmed in the White Room at CRS, NYC
on February 6, 2022

Created in collaboration with musicians and dancers primarily of Asian and Middle-Eastern origin or descent, the WEDNESDAYS AT NOON music video series provides a playground for unusual collaborations and creative experimentation. The works featured include both composed/choreographed and improvised performances and take aim at the perceived boundary between traditional and contemporary.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Born and raised in South Korea, Jungwoong Kim has been a dancer, choreographer, media artist, arts educator and contact improvisation teacher for more than 20 years. He has extensive training in martial arts and Korean traditional dance and ritual, both of which strongly inform his artistic vision and aesthetic. He has done performances in contact improvisation and other dance styles with Katie Duck, Kurt Koegel, Hiekyoung Blanz, Kristie Simpson, Karen Nelson, Chris Aiken, Leah Stein, and Marion Ramirez, among others. As a resident artist at Philadelphia’s Asian Arts Initiative, he created and collaborated in a series of performance works dealing with catastrophic events and sudden human loss, including the 2014 Sewol Ferry disaster off the coast of South Korea. In connection with this body of work, in 2015 he was awarded a multi-year grant from The Pew Center for Arts and Heritage for SaltSoul, a multi-disciplinary, multi-site, durational performance project.

Jungwoong has taught improvisation and contact improvisation at numerous universities and independent workshops in the U.S., Europe, Japan and South Korea. For the fall 2021 semester he was a guest artist/choreographer at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster PA. He recently received a 2021 ART IS PHL award from the Philadelphia Housing Development Corporation for creation of Gather Together in Their Name, a public art project that speaks to the interruption of community memorial rituals in the time of COVID. Lately he has enjoyed working with Philadelphia’s Wilma Theater as the movement consultant for an uproariously physical interpretation of Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard, directed by Dmitry Krymov, which played to sold-out audiences and rave reviews in April/ May 2022. In June 2022 he was a featured artist in performances at the 25th anniversary celebration of Philadelphia Dance Projects.

https://www.aha-k-pro.org/

gamin is a distinguished NYC soloist who tours the world performing both traditional Korean music and cross-disciplinary collaborations. gamin plays piri (double reed Korean oboe), taepyeonso (double-reed horn), and saenghwang (mouth organ). She is a designated Yisuja, official holder of Important Intangible Cultural Asset No. 46 for Court and Royal Military music. Re-inventing new sonorities from ancient, somewhat restrictive, musical systems, gamin has received several cultural exchange program grants, including Artist-in-Residence (2014) at the Asian Cultural Council, and Ministry of Culture, Sports, Tourism of Republic of Korea (2012). gamin has collaborated in cross-cultural improvisation in NYC with world-acclaimed musician Jane Ira Bloom, Elliot Sharp, Ned Rothenberg, presenting premieres at Roulette Theater, New School, and Metropolitan Museum. gamin was featured artist at the Silkroad concert, Seoul, 2018, performing on-stage with Yo-Yo Ma. gamin, as soloist, has scheduled her Carnegie Hall debut with the Nangye Gugak Orchestra in coming year. She has been a curator for the Crossing Boundaries Concert Series, which she helped to conceive, at CRS since 2018.
https://gaminmusic.com
@gamin_ny

https://crsny.org
https://www.instagram.com/crsnyorg/

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Wednesdays at Noon 27 — Paradise Laboratory with gamin & Jungwoon Kim 1

CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) September 14, 2022 4:00 pm

CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) presents Wednesdays at Noon Music Video Series Episode 26: Bolero Filmed live at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology Nov 4, 2021 https://gsmse.kaist.ac.kr/boards/view/board_notice/12955 "Bolero" composed by Maurice Ravel and Hyo Jee Kang 강효지 Flute by Min-Kyung Cha Oboe by So-Yeon Kim Bassoon by Young-Jin Choi Piri, Taepyeongso by Gamin Vocal by Kyung-Won Paik Organ by Gun-Base Jeon Cello by Hyung-Ji Lee Piano, Virtual Instrument, Tambourine by Hyo Jee Kang Editing by Jinok Cho https://www.facebook.com/jinok.cho Produced by Hyo Jee Kang @mag_hyojee Created in collaboration with musicians and dancers primarily of Asian and Middle-Eastern origin or descent, the WEDNESDAYS AT NOON music video series provides a playground for unusual collaborations and creative experimentation. The works featured include both composed/choreographed and improvised performances and take aim at the perceived boundary between traditional and contemporary. https://crsny.org https://www.instagram.com/crsnyorg/ ABOUT ARTIST HYO JEE KANG Hyo Jee Kang is a concert pianist who has also been focusing on transformation between media and objects to create a new art form. She works with media artists and live electronic performers presenting improvisation and recomposed composition as well as her originals. Her activity as a composer, performer, creator and improviser has been featured throughout the world in Germany, Spain, Italy, Korea, Japan, USA, Israel, and so on. Hyo Jee currently resides in South Korea and serves as a faculty at Korea National University of Transportation. In May 2018, she gave her solo performance with great success at Lincoln Center, including the Conceptual Transformation Performance “Pyung Yang.” In August 2018 she was one of 12 artists from around the world selected to participate in Seminar in Taipei, a platform for in-depth exchange in both theoretical and practical fields, at the 2018 Taipei Arts Festival X in Taiwan. Seminar in Taipei is an initiative of Pro Helvetia, the Swiss Arts Council, in partnership with the National Culture and Arts Foundation of Taiwan, Korea Arts Management Service, the National Arts Council of Singapore, and the Arts and Theatre Institute of the Czech Republic, realised in collaboration with the Taipei Arts Festival. Her live performance works were presented by CRS at CRS in 2018 and 2019. http://www.hyojeekang.com https://youtube.com/hyojeekang

CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) presents
Wednesdays at Noon Music Video Series Episode 26:
Bolero

Filmed live at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Nov 4, 2021
https://gsmse.kaist.ac.kr/boards/view/board_notice/12955

"Bolero" composed by Maurice Ravel and Hyo Jee Kang 강효지

Flute by Min-Kyung Cha
Oboe by So-Yeon Kim
Bassoon by Young-Jin Choi
Piri, Taepyeongso by Gamin
Vocal by Kyung-Won Paik
Organ by Gun-Base Jeon
Cello by Hyung-Ji Lee
Piano, Virtual Instrument, Tambourine by Hyo Jee Kang

Editing by Jinok Cho
https://www.facebook.com/jinok.cho

Produced by Hyo Jee Kang
@mag_hyojee

Created in collaboration with musicians and dancers primarily of Asian and Middle-Eastern origin or descent, the WEDNESDAYS AT NOON music video series provides a playground for unusual collaborations and creative experimentation. The works featured include both composed/choreographed and improvised performances and take aim at the perceived boundary between traditional and contemporary.

https://crsny.org
https://www.instagram.com/crsnyorg/

ABOUT ARTIST HYO JEE KANG

Hyo Jee Kang is a concert pianist who has also been focusing on transformation between media and objects to create a new art form. She works with media artists and live electronic performers presenting improvisation and recomposed composition as well as her originals. Her activity as a composer, performer, creator and improviser has been featured throughout the world in Germany, Spain, Italy, Korea, Japan, USA, Israel, and so on. Hyo Jee currently resides in South Korea and serves as a faculty at Korea National University of Transportation. In May 2018, she gave her solo performance with great success at Lincoln Center, including the Conceptual Transformation Performance “Pyung Yang.” In August 2018 she was one of 12 artists from around the world selected to participate in Seminar in Taipei, a platform for in-depth exchange in both theoretical and practical fields, at the 2018 Taipei Arts Festival X in Taiwan. Seminar in Taipei is an initiative of Pro Helvetia, the Swiss Arts Council, in partnership with the National Culture and Arts Foundation of Taiwan, Korea Arts Management Service, the National Arts Council of Singapore, and the Arts and Theatre Institute of the Czech Republic, realised in collaboration with the Taipei Arts Festival. Her live performance works were presented by CRS at CRS in 2018 and 2019.
http://www.hyojeekang.com
https://youtube.com/hyojeekang

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Wednesdays at Noon 26: Bolero

CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) April 27, 2022 4:00 pm

CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) presents Wednesdays at Noon 25: Oud Taksim Huzzam by Tomchess Music by Tomchess https://tomchess.bandcamp.com @birdoffire7 Video & Editing by Christopher Pelham https://chrispelham.com @christopher_pelham From Crossing Boundaries Concert Series Vol. 14: Rumi's Wedding Night Filmed at CRS in NYC Premiered Dec 17, 2020 https://crsny.org https://www.instagram.com/crsnyorg/ Created in collaboration with musicians and dancers primarily of Asian and Middle-Eastern origin or descent, the WEDNESDAYS AT NOON music video series provides a playground for unusual collaborations and creative experimentation. The works featured include both composed/choreographed and improvised performances and take aim at the perceived boundary between traditional and contemporary. Tomchess (oud, ney, morsing) is a Pittsburgh–based multi-instrumentalist, improviser, and composer who has played and recorded with some of the most esteemed players in the improvisational scene (Dewey Redman, Butch Morris, Pharoah Sanders, Drew Gress, Ronald Shannon Jackson) as well as Moroccan sintarist Hassan Hakmoun. He has performed around the world and at New York City venues like Lincoln Center, the Turkish and Pakistani embassies, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the United Nations He has played on Grammy-nominated recordings and was awarded grants from the Turkish American Society and the Maryland Council for the Arts. In 2012 he was nominated for an Independent Music Award.

CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) presents
Wednesdays at Noon 25: Oud Taksim Huzzam by Tomchess

Music by Tomchess
https://tomchess.bandcamp.com
@birdoffire7

Video & Editing by
Christopher Pelham
https://chrispelham.com
@christopher_pelham

From Crossing Boundaries Concert Series Vol. 14: Rumi's Wedding Night
Filmed at CRS in NYC
Premiered Dec 17, 2020
https://crsny.org
https://www.instagram.com/crsnyorg/

Created in collaboration with musicians and dancers primarily of Asian and Middle-Eastern origin or descent, the WEDNESDAYS AT NOON music video series provides a playground for unusual collaborations and creative experimentation. The works featured include both composed/choreographed and improvised performances and take aim at the perceived boundary between traditional and contemporary.

Tomchess (oud, ney, morsing) is a Pittsburgh–based multi-instrumentalist, improviser, and composer who has played and recorded with some of the most esteemed players in the improvisational scene (Dewey Redman, Butch Morris, Pharoah Sanders, Drew Gress, Ronald Shannon Jackson) as well as Moroccan sintarist Hassan Hakmoun. He has performed around the world and at New York City venues like Lincoln Center, the Turkish and Pakistani embassies, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the United Nations He has played on Grammy-nominated recordings and was awarded grants from the Turkish American Society and the Maryland Council for the Arts. In 2012 he was nominated for an Independent Music Award.

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Wednesdays at Noon 25: Oud Taksim Huzzam by Tomchess

CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) April 20, 2022 4:00 pm

CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) presents Wednesdays at Noon Music Video Series Episode 24: Paradise Laboratory 5 Part 3 Improvised by Galen Passen — sitar gamin — piri and saenghwang Text by Mia Chung https://newdramatists.org/mia-chung Spoken Word by Elya Osmanova https://www.elyaos.com @elyaos Video & Editing by Christopher Pelham https://chrispelham.com @christopher_pelham Filmed in the White Room at CRS, NYC on December 6, 2021 Created in collaboration with musicians and dancers primarily of Asian and Middle-Eastern origin or descent, the WEDNESDAYS AT NOON music video series provides a playground for unusual collaborations and creative experimentation. The works featured include both composed/choreographed and improvised performances and take aim at the perceived boundary between traditional and contemporary. ABOUT THE ARTISTS Galen Passen is a sitarist, composer, and visual artist based in Brooklyn, NYC. His devotion to training within the traditional formats of hindustani music have provided him with respect and love for the ever unfolding wisdom of sound while his diverse experiences across countries, genres, people and vocations have given him the conviction that art is to serve a greater purpose of spirituality and justice. Besides hindustani music he performs experimental compositions, collaborations with dance and other creative formats. He has had the privilege to work with the Pittsburgh Opera and Brooklyn Raga Massive and was awarded an Individual Artist Grant from The Saratoga Arts Council which he used to conceive and launch Folk Song, an emergent ensemble inspired by the forms of hindustani and Irish Trad. @galenpassen gamin is a distinguished NYC soloist who tours the world performing both traditional Korean music and cross-disciplinary collaborations. gamin plays piri (double reed Korean oboe), taepyeonso (double-reed horn), and saenghwang (mouth organ). She is a designated Yisuja, official holder of Important Intangible Cultural Asset No. 46 for Court and Royal Military music. Re-inventing new sonorities from ancient, somewhat restrictive, musical systems, gamin has received several cultural exchange program grants, including Artist-in-Residence (2014) at the Asian Cultural Council, and Ministry of Culture, Sports, Tourism of Republic of Korea (2012). gamin has collaborated in cross-cultural improvisation in NYC with world-acclaimed musician Jane Ira Bloom, Elliot Sharp, Ned Rothenberg, presenting premieres at Roulette Theater, New School, and Metropolitan Museum. gamin was featured artist at the Silkroad concert, Seoul, 2018, performing on-stage with Yo-Yo Ma. gamin, as soloist, has scheduled her Carnegie Hall debut with the Nangye Gugak Orchestra in coming year. She has been a curator for the Crossing Boundaries Concert Series, which she helped to conceive, at CRS since 2018. https://gaminmusic.com @gamin_ny https://crsny.org https://www.instagram.com/crsnyorg/

CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) presents
Wednesdays at Noon Music Video Series Episode 24:
Paradise Laboratory 5 Part 3

Improvised by
Galen Passen — sitar
gamin — piri and saenghwang

Text by
Mia Chung
https://newdramatists.org/mia-chung

Spoken Word by
Elya Osmanova
https://www.elyaos.com
@elyaos

Video & Editing by
Christopher Pelham
https://chrispelham.com
@christopher_pelham

Filmed in the White Room at CRS, NYC
on December 6, 2021

Created in collaboration with musicians and dancers primarily of Asian and Middle-Eastern origin or descent, the WEDNESDAYS AT NOON music video series provides a playground for unusual collaborations and creative experimentation. The works featured include both composed/choreographed and improvised performances and take aim at the perceived boundary between traditional and contemporary.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Galen Passen is a sitarist, composer, and visual artist based in Brooklyn, NYC. His devotion to training within the traditional formats of hindustani music have provided him with respect and love for the ever unfolding wisdom of sound while his diverse experiences across countries, genres, people and vocations have given him the conviction that art is to serve a greater purpose of spirituality and justice. Besides hindustani music he performs experimental compositions, collaborations with dance and other creative formats. He has had the privilege to work with the Pittsburgh Opera and Brooklyn Raga Massive and was awarded an Individual Artist Grant from The Saratoga Arts Council which he used to conceive and launch Folk Song, an emergent ensemble inspired by the forms of hindustani and Irish Trad.
@galenpassen

gamin is a distinguished NYC soloist who tours the world performing both traditional Korean music and cross-disciplinary collaborations. gamin plays piri (double reed Korean oboe), taepyeonso (double-reed horn), and saenghwang (mouth organ). She is a designated Yisuja, official holder of Important Intangible Cultural Asset No. 46 for Court and Royal Military music. Re-inventing new sonorities from ancient, somewhat restrictive, musical systems, gamin has received several cultural exchange program grants, including Artist-in-Residence (2014) at the Asian Cultural Council, and Ministry of Culture, Sports, Tourism of Republic of Korea (2012). gamin has collaborated in cross-cultural improvisation in NYC with world-acclaimed musician Jane Ira Bloom, Elliot Sharp, Ned Rothenberg, presenting premieres at Roulette Theater, New School, and Metropolitan Museum. gamin was featured artist at the Silkroad concert, Seoul, 2018, performing on-stage with Yo-Yo Ma. gamin, as soloist, has scheduled her Carnegie Hall debut with the Nangye Gugak Orchestra in coming year. She has been a curator for the Crossing Boundaries Concert Series, which she helped to conceive, at CRS since 2018.
https://gaminmusic.com
@gamin_ny

https://crsny.org
https://www.instagram.com/crsnyorg/

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Wednesdays at Noon 24: Paradise Laboratory 5 with gamin and Galen Passen — Part 3

CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) April 13, 2022 4:00 pm

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