Hanoi New Music Festival Ensemble 2013:
Nguyen Thanh Thuy - dàn tranh
Ngo Trà My - dàn bau
Pham Thi Hue - ty bà, dàn dày, phàch, vocal
Sonx - percussion
Kim Ngoc - vocal
Lotte Anker - soprano sax, alto sax
Jakob Riis - electronics
Terje Thiwång - flute
Henrik Frisk - electronics
Stefan Östersjö - dàn tỳ bà, mandolin
Patrizia Oliva - electronics, vocal
Stefano Giust - percussion
Burkhard Beins - percussion
1.Being Together part 1 10:32
2.Being Together part 2 19:35
3.Being Together part 3 17:04
Live recording from the Hanoi New Music Festival 2013. Sunday, december 8th, 2013 @ Youth Theater, Hanoi, Vietnam.
From the brochure of the event:
Composer Kim Ngoc, the initiator, gathers around 50 musicians from 8 different countires including Vietnam, Sweden, Denmark, UK, Italy, Germany, Norway and France. With the theme "The Blind Spot", the Festival aims for no gaps in knowledge, and to generate synergetic effects to strengthen musical infrastructures between Vietnam and the worldwide contemporary music scene. Joint projects are therefore also a means of identifying the blind spots in one´s own perception and viewpoints.
The Festival aspires to be a catalyst to kick-start conversations and collaborations among local and international practitioners of music and other art forms: a playground for various types of artistic expression together and interact; and a transitional meeting point to further encourage musical and artistic exchange. The Hanoi New Music Festival 2013 will take place at DomDom and in theatres and public spaces around the city, depending on the requirements and nature of each performance."
All these points were achieved! Being Together was the big closing performance of the festival, that included prominent music improvisers. The music was recorded in concert at the Youth Theater of Hanoi, Vietnam, on December 08th. The musicians worked together during the festival, in addition to their own projects presented at the event and they developed an extraordinary musical dialogue, as an individual performer or mixed group. The piece is based on a graphic score by Lotte Anker. Musical improvisation is a rare thing that works immediately in and between humans, even if they come from different countries, languages and culture. No barriers.
Kim Ngoc (Vietnam) is a composer (that has studied in Cologne, Germany with Karlheinz Stockhausen a.o.), music educator and a tireless promoter of new music in her native country. She initiated DomDom - The Hub for Experimental Music and Art. Phạm Thị Huệ (Vietnam), in addition to working in contemporary music, is the largest virtuoso interpreter in the world of Ca Tru, an early music (really lovely instrumental and vocal music); not different positions the other Vietnamese musicians as the virtuous Nguyễn Thanh Thủy and Ngȏ Trà My, as well as for the percussionist SonX, also active in the field of electro-acoustic. Lotte Anker (Denmark) is a well known saxophonist, works in the field of free jazz and improvised music, she is a composer and music educator. Jakob Riis (Denmark) is an electroacoustic composer and improviser. Stefan Östersjö (Sweden) is a virtuoso guitarist, composer, music theorist and educator, works in the field of contemporary music and improvisation. Terje Thiwång (Sweden) is a virtuoso of the flute and works mainly in the field of contemporary music. Henrik Frisk (Sweden) is a composer, saxophonist, music theorist and expert on the practices of electroacoustic and computer music. Burkhard Beins (Germany) is recognized as one of the most advanced and experimental percussionists, works primarily in the field of improvised music. Patrizia Oliva (Italy) vocalist and the Stefano Giust (Italy) are wellknown artist on the Setola di Maiale label.
Being Together is a notable historical as well as musical achievement, Ken Waxman, Jazzword