Filip Kimho Duo - Runaway Horses
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Runaway Horses- a metaphor illustrating the spirit of departing from home, making a step beyond tradition; towards the idea of re-interpretation and the search for new grounds in music. In addition it also means that while traveling one gets many new and fresh impressions, which happens in making the voyage of recording this album. With pieces ranging from the Mongolian folk tune Galloping Horse, to the silk and bamboo tune from the south-east China, San Liu, it does feel like being taken by the musicians all through China, and beyond. This album presents the collaboration of two musicians interacting inter-culturally, Filip from Holland and Kimho from Hong Kong, China, each has also worked musically across several cultures. The selected music, mostly influenced by East Asian folk music, combined with the aesthetics of European classical tradition, represents a state of mind in music that reflects a genuine interest to understand others' cultures and their subtle nuances. It is possibly the world's first ever recorded album of Chinese dulcimer (Yangchin) and soprano saxophone duet. The soul of experimentalism is, however, by no means to be taken as deconstructing
Kimho Ip
Born in Hong Kong, Kimho Ip lives in Edinburgh since 1999 and currently works as musical director of iMAP (www.imapimap.com), musical curator for the Confucius Institute for Scotland, and teaches a postgraduate course on music and interculture at the University of Edinburgh. In 2011-12 he is invited to be research fellow at the International Research Centre, "Interweaving Performance Cultures" at the Freie Universitaet, Berlin. As a composer, Kimho's orchestral and chamber works have been showcased at the ISCM World New Music Days (2002/ 2007), the Edinburgh International Festival (2005) and the Gaudeamus in Amsterdam (2006). He explores the presentation of Chinese music in site-specific productions, directing multi-artform works such as Cathay House Blend at the National Museum of Scotland (2006); Cinema China (2007); Dialogues of Wind and Bamboo at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh; and Requiem for Travellers (2010). In 2011-2012 and 2014 he was a research fellow at the International Research Centrum, "Interweaving Performance Cultures" of the Freie Universitaet, Berlin.
And at the moment he also teaches at the Hong Kong University.