Event Information
Description
Jung Hee Choi
Tonecycle for Blues Base 30 Hz, 2:3:7 Ensemble Version with 4:3 and 7:6
Saturdays, December 14 and December 21, 2019, 9pm
Thursday, December 19, 2019, 9pm
The Sundara All-Star Band:
La Monte Young, voice
Jung Hee Choi, voice
Jon Catler, fretless guitar
Hansford Rowe, fretless bass
Naren Budhkar, tabla
MELA Foundation Dream House
275 Church Street, 3rd Flr, New York, NY - 10013
Ph: 917. 972. 3674
Admission: $43.
MELA Members, Seniors, Student ID: $37
ALL TICKETS ARE WILL-CALL ONLY
Limited seating. Advance reservations recommended.
PLEASE NOTE: To prepare for the scheduled concerts the Dream House installation will close December 12th through December 21st. Doors will open at 9:00 for concert seating.
MELA is pleased to present three live performances of Jung Hee Choi's Tonecycle for Blues Base 30 Hz, 2:3:7 Ensemble Version with 4:3 and 7:6. Her Sundara All-Star Band will perform again this piece, which was listed as one of The Best Classical Music Performances of 2017 by The New York Times. The legendary vocalists—La Monte Young and Jung Hee Choi—and the virtuoso just intonation fretless guitar and bass—Jon Catler and Hansford Rowe—will improvise harmonically related frequency ratios over Choi’s composition, Tonecycle for Blues accompanied by highly acclaimed tabla master, Naren Budhkar. This concert series will be presented in celebration of La Monte’s 84th birthday and the half cycle of Marian’s 79th birthday.
While traversing the common ground of improvisational phrases rooted in Indian raga, American blues techniques, Korean traditional folk ballads and musical Minimalism, this work creates a highly original sound that is based on intervals in just intonation. Over the seventy-seven continuously revolving sine-wave frequencies, six channels of vocal overlays will be set in ratios based on the harmonics 2, 3, and 7. The relationship of the improvisations to the continuous drone elaborates the musical meaning of the pitch, creating a harmonious construct and inviting the listener into a deeply contemplative world.
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