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Quartet
2023
Cello
Clarinet
Speaker
Violin
- Program Notes
- For a long time, creating intimate sound and space has been one of my core musical interests – among performers and the audience, through sound and the act of performance. This idea led me to use breath as the main material of Soomool (“breath is” in Korean). Human breath, by nature, possesses intimacy both in acoustic and emotional realms. People always make and hear it from themselves and others, whether consciously or not. Also, in addition to its ubiquity, it also conveys one’s specific physical and emotional status. These two layers of intimacy are drawn to the background of this piece, and the performers amplify the different shades of morphing breaths within a very static, soft and fragile soundscape. The text is about the breath that reminds their departed lover – adding another layer of intimate experience. However, it is not expressed through plain voice – simply being whispered almost unintelligibly, only leaving the vestige of a resonating counterpart, both in sound and in text.
- Performer Credits
- Joogwang Lim, speaker / Lorenzo Gallegos, violin / Olivia Katz, violoncello / Marco Chen, clarinet
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