haegeum, vibraphone, drum set, electric guitar, accordion, and video
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Composed and recorded in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, mimenrosp is a reflection on the connectedness I have experienced with my colleagues despite the isolation brought on the pandemic. mimenrosp layers performances and audiovisual field recordings taken by each instrumentalist in their respective locations. This conflation of places and times results in a unique sense of location in the work. This reduction of physical distance mirrors our current interactions, condensed into video conferencing and networked performance. “mimenrosp" is an anagram of the word persimmon. My collaborators in this work were located in Amherst, MA, Taos, NM, Los Angeles, CA, and Seoul, South Korea. The average of all of our geographic coordinates was near Mount Persimmon in Alberta, Canada. So, if we could have all gotten together, maybe that would have been the place! With endless graditude, mimenrosp is dedicated to my collaborators:
Emilia Moscoso Borja, vibraphone (Los Angeles, CA)
Alex Buck, drum set (Taos, NM)
Jeonghyeon Joo, haegeum (Seoul, South Korea)
Alkis Nicolaides, electric guitar (Los Angeles, CA)
Ben Richter, accordion (Amherst, MA)
mimenrosp (2020)
in compositions, video
