Matt Schumaker, composer

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The Korean Experimental Music Festival

The National Gugak Center—Korea’s foremost institution for traditional music—joins forces with the Bay Area’s acclaimed Del Sol String Quartet to offer audiences a rare and resonant experience. The festival blends traditional Korean musical practices, Western classical instrumentation, and cutting-edge music technology in the world premieres of a nineteen newly commissioned works by faculty and graduate-student composers from UC Santa Cruz, UC Berkeley, and Stanford.

Two concerts feature a first-of-its-kind ensemble pairing two gayageum—Korea’s zither-like plucked instrument—with a Western string quartet. In two additional performances, traditional Korean wind instruments—the piri, saenghwang, and daegeum—are transformed through real-time computer sound processing into striking electroacoustic sound worlds.

The festival culminates a two-year collaboration among the National Gugak Center, the UC Santa Cruz Music Department, UC Berkeley’s Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT), and Stanford’s Department of Music and Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA).

Don’t miss these concerts of new works shaped by deep intercultural dialogue and inspired by the enduring legacy of traditional Korean music.

All concerts are free and open to the public.

Musicians from the National Gugak Center Creative Orchestra: piri — Chi-Wan Park, Kyu-Soo Lim; saenghwang — Bo-Mi Kim; daegeum — Pil-Ki Lee; gayageum — Ji-Hye Lee, Se-Youn Park, Ji-eun Lee; Del Sol String Quartet — Charlton Lee, Hyeyung Sol Yoon, Benjamin Kreith, Kathryn Bates; Guest Conductor — David Milnes

Concert 1 (UC Berkeley) — Tue., Nov. 11, 7:00 p.m. · Wu Hall (125 Morrison Hall)
Concert 2 (UC Berkeley) — Wed., Nov. 12, 12:00 p.m. · Hertz Hall (“Noon Concert”)
Concert 3 (UC Berkeley) — Wed., Nov. 12, 4:00 p.m. · Wu Hall (125 Morrison Hall)
Concert 4 (UC Berkeley) — Wed., Nov. 12, 7:00 p.m. · Wu Hall (125 Morrison Hall)
Concert 5 (UC Santa Cruz) — Fri., Nov. 14, 5:00 p.m. · Music Center Recital Hall
Concert 6 (UC Santa Cruz) — Fri., Nov. 14, 8:00 p.m. · Music Center Recital Hall
Concert 7 (UC Santa Cruz) — Sat., Nov. 15, 5:00 p.m. · Music Center Recital Hall
Concert 8 (UC Santa Cruz) — Sat., Nov. 15, 8:00 p.m. · Music Center Recital Hall
Concert 9 (Stanford / CCRMA) — Sun., Nov. 16, 3:00 p.m. · CCRMA
Concert 10 (Stanford / CCRMA) — Sun., Nov. 16, 7:00 p.m. · CCRMA