Avatar Dvadas - Bruce Gaston and Somtow's wild concert at BACC

t's a meta-symphony being created right in front of your very eyes and ears, music woven out of the very fabric of Bangkok's newest hub of creativity. The piece is designed for Bangkok's Art and Culture Center, using all the spaces, shapes, and angles to be found within it. "Bangkok: Twelve Incarnations" celebrates a city that is constantly reborn.

In their first co-composed composition since 1977's "Hexaphony", Somtow Sucharitkul and Bruce Gaston are putting together a year-long artwork, one movement or "incarnation" every month, timed with the constellations of the zodiac. the work will be collected into a gargantuan video set.

It's a new kind of art which could only have been created in Bangkok. Part improvisation, part environmental music, part kinetic art, the work is designed to be experienced live. Once the twelve "incarnations" have been performed, the work will be collected into a gargantuan video set.

The first "incarnation", inspired by the constellation Virgo, was experienced on September 20 at the Bangkok Art and Culture Center at 7 pm.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• somtow
• gaston
• avant-garde
• music
• bangkok
• contemporary

[joopschilp]

Stunning performance, Somtow!

Maybe see each other November 29th with A Boy and a Tiger.