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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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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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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CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) presents
Wednesdays at Noon Music Video Series Episode 23:
This Is Not Me 이것은 내가 아니다

Direction, Cinematography & Editing by Chul-nyung Heo 허철녕
@mediaspora

Piano & Voiceover by Hyo Jee Kang 강효지
@mag_hyojee

Music: "Jeju" by Hyo Jee Kang

Cast:
Hyo Jee Kang
Seo-Rin Kim
Seoa Kim
Gab-Soon Lee

Created with support from Arts Council Korea

"This Is Not Me" is filmmaker Chul-nyung Heo's re-interpretation of an original work, also titled "This Is Not Me," by the pianist and conceptual transformation artist Hyo Jee Kang. It is a metamorphosis of a metamorphosis. The film premiered at the Sejong Cultural Center in S. Korea on February 10, 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.

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

ABOUT FILMMAKER CHUL-NYUNG HEO

Born in 1986 in Seoul, South Korea, Heo studied Broadcasting and Documentary filmmaking at the Korea National University of Arts. His first feature documentary, Remanent People, which delicately portrayed the desire of a family in the midst of redevelopment project in Seoul, was officially invited in the DMZ International Documentary Festival and Seoul Independent Film Festival in 2012.
https://vimeo.com/mediaspora

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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CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) presents
Wednesdays at Noon Music Video Series Episode 22:
Sarve Kharaman (Graceful Cyprus)

Direction by Läle Sayoko

Vocal by Mina Omidi
https://minaomidi.com

Sufi dance by Läle Sayoko & Mina Khanal
@lalesayokonyc
@meera_whirling
@meerawhirling

Video & Editing by
Christopher Pelham
@christopher_pelham

From "Rumi's Wedding Night"
Filmed at CRS, NYC
Premiered on December 17, 2019

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/

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CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) presents
Wednesdays at Noon Music Video Series Episode 21:
Paradise Laboratory 5 Part 2

Improvised by
Galen Passen — sitar
gamin — piri and saenghwang

Video & Editing by
Christopher Pelham
@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.
https://www.instagram.com/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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CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) presents
Wednesdays at Noon Music Video Series Episode 20:
Paradise Laboratory 5 Part 1

Improvised by
Galen Passen — sitar
gamin — piri and saenghwang

Video & Editing by
Christopher Pelham
@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.
https://www.instagram.com/galenpassen/
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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CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) presents
Wednesdays at Noon Music Video Series Episode 19:
"Marlboro Man" in Japanese and "A Girl and a Guitar" in English
music, lyrics and performance by Rie Tamuro タムロリエ
Video and editing by Christopher Pelham

from the International Singer-Songwriter Showcase
at CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing), NYC
on October 14, 2017

Rie Tamuro is a singer-songwriter from Nara, Japan. She has lived in NYC since 2015 and has performed at CRS on several occasions. Check out her recent music video for her song "Danbouru to Furikake" here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EI4_abjqUq0

YouTube.com/rietamuro
https://songwhip.com/rietamuro/ready-gou
https://songwhip.com/rietamuro/charisong
twitch.tv/rietamuro
fb.com/tamuro.rie
fb.com/tamuro.rie.en
@tamurorie

Created in collaboration with musicians and dancers primarily of Asian and Middle-Eastern origin or descent, the 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.

crsny.org
@crsnyorg
chrispelham.com
@christopher_pelham

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CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) presents
Wednesdays at Noon Music Video Series Episode 18:
Light and Shadow 光と影

from VIBRATIONS
filmed live on Dec 6, 2019 at CRS in NYC

Piano by Mamiko Hirai
https://hirai-mamiko.com

Composed by Akiko Shikata

Reproduced with permission of SONY/ATV TUNES LLC
OBO SUNRISE MUSIC PUB CO., LTD. All rights reserved.

Live Art Performance by Saori Kanda
https://saorian.com

Dance by Läle Sayoko
@lalesayokonyc

Video/Editing by Chris Fiore
https:chrisfiore.com

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

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