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Emily Hay
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Eugene Chadbourne

Frakture Present : Los Angeles based musician Emily Hay and Cologne based Chao-Ming Tung

March 24th, Friday Night, St Brides Church, Catherine Street, Liverpool
£3.00 8.00pm Doors Open
Venue Details

Los Angeles based musician Emily Hay and Cologne based Chao-Ming Tung venture to Liverpool to perform original composed and improvised music for flute/voice and gu-zheng (the Chinese zither) with live electronics. Their music combines abstract spontaneity with contemporary classical techniques and traditional Chinese musical motifs. Hay and Tung first met in 2004 while Chao-Ming was a visiting fellow at the Villa Aurora Foundation in Los Angeles. Their collaboration led to initial performances at linespaceline and Highways Performance Space and Gallery and they are scheduled for several concerts dates in Europe during 2006, including The Loft and the Staoin of Art Sankt Peter in Cologne as well as appearances in London, Liverpool and Warrington.

Emily Hay is a flutist and vocalist whose musical psyche is steeped in the abstract and who attempts to defy all pre-conceived notions about her instruments and their sound roles. She produces unusual tone colors, multiphonics, overtones and soaring rhythms, interjected with shocking vocalizations which range from primal to operatic, often with stream of consciousness and whimsical word play. Hay is an active member of the California "Left Coast" music scene, performing and collaborating in avant garde, art rock, free improvisation, elctro-acoustical and modern classical ensembles such as U Totem, Motor Totemist Guild, Otherparts, Go Organic Orchestra, The Emily Hay Collective, The Surrealestate Ensemble and the Jeff Kaiser Ockodektet. She is a featured recording artist on Cuneiform Records, Recommended Records, Meta Records, pfMentum and Public Eyesore, amongst others. She has toured and performed extensively throughout Europe, Canada and the U.S. with concert highlights at the Bimhuis/Amsterdam, New Music America Festival/Montreal, Kulturni Dom/Yugoslavia, Thingamajigs Festival/San Francisco, Art Rock Festival/Frankfurt, So. Cal. Festival of New Music/Long Beach and Reithalle/Bern. Emily Hay is a co-host of the new music radio show "Triology" on KXLU 88.9FM Los Angeles. Her CD "Like Minds" released on pfMentum in 2005 received puzzled acclaim and her latest CD "We Are" has been released on Public Eyesore January 2006.

Chao-Ming Tung is a Taiwanese-born composer and gu-zheng player based in Cologne, Germany. His music encompasses traditional Chinese instruments with live electronics, stage, instrumental, vocal, and electro-acoustic works, and multimedia-performances with visual arts. In 1988 he began composition studies with Chien Nan-Chang in the Chinese-Culture-University Taipei and continued his training from 1990 -1997 at the Musikhochschule Köln Germany with Johannes Fritsch and Mauricio Kagel, and later at the Folkwang-Hochschule Essen with Nicolaus A. Huber, where he graduated with distinction. Since 1999 he has worked as a freelance composer and musician, and facilitates East-West cultural exchanges. Tung’s work has been presented in concerts of numerous festivals throughout Europe, Asia, and the U.S. He has collaborated with choreographers, dancers, painters, musicians, ensembles, sound-media, and video artists, e.g. Annegret Heiln, René Pieters, Bernhard Gal, Klang Forum Wien, Ensemble Ictus, Ensemble Modern, ensemble 2e2m, Ensemble On-Line Vienna ensemble DEDALO, and China Found Music Workshop Taipei. He was awarded the Bernd Alois Zimmermann Scholarship for Composers from the City of Cologne in 1999, the Scholarship of National Culture and Arts Foundation Taiwan in 2001 and a visiting fellowship in Los Angeles from the Villa Aurora Foundation in 2004.

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