Poster: Kulay Labitigan
Wednesday, February 25
at 5:00pm
Quezon Hall Ampitheater, UP Diliman
University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines
Composite is three-piece performance out of three different creative experiences.
The first part of the program will feature two works by Japanese artist, Tetsuya Umeda.
In September 2014, Umeda conduct a sound and movement workshop for children from Kayan, Mt. Province, Philippines. As a culture specific piece, Umeda adapted the interlocking pattern commonly found in the music of the people of the Cordillera into the unorthodox performative approach that he is known for. Output of their performance will be performed on this event.
In collaboration with Yasutaka Watanabe, Umeda did a film documenting vignettes of the his performance from May 2013 to October 2014, shot in Aomori and Osaka (Japan) and Kayan (Philippines). This film will be premiered on this event.
The second part of the program will be the premiere of Ramon Santos’ Gong-Gong-an. It is a massive sonic piece that will feature different gongs of the Philippines, Thailand and Indonesia, to celebrate the richness of the ASEAN cultures. This is Santos’ first composition after he was declared a National Artist of the Philippines in 2013.
Beyond instrumentation, another performance will be featured to interpret Santos’ work—choreographed movement by Myra Beltran. Beltran will draw inspiration mainly from from Japanes butoh, combined with other Asian traditional dance stances, to form a non-linear, non-narrative, textural and sensorial work.
In science, the term composite refers to materials with constituent materials of different properties. When the materials are combined, it produces another material that is different from the constituent components. Individual component can however still be identified within the completed structure.
The event will not attempt to create one general narrative. Instead, being a composite, is the major characteristic of this event, hence the chosen title. It is able to bring together in one event products of three creative experience: artist as creator (Santos’ composition), artist as facilitator (Umeda’s workshop) and artist as the subject (Umeda’s film).
Composite is a project by Dayang Yraola and Tetsuya Umeda, supported by The Japan Foundation Manila, in cooperation with Cordillera Green Movement and the University of the Philippines Center for Ethnomusicology. Special acknowledgment is extended to Project Bakawan, Click Sonic Labs and the University of the Philippines College of Music.
Free admission. For more information please email dyraola@gmail.com.
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Premiere of National Artist for Music Ramon P. Santos’s “Gong-gong-an, palette of gong sounds” to be played by students and faculty of the U.P. College of Music with movement choreography by Myra Beltran
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