the light of your eyes is river eternity (excerpt)

   Since 2000, composer-cellist Ha-Yang Kim (USA) and violinist/violist-composer Stefan Poetzsch (Germany) have collaborated on numerous performances, sound art installations and multi-media projects in Europe and in the US.  Their music moves freely and fluidly through free improvisation, classical, jazz, rock, electronic, avant-garde experimental, with keen senses of Korean, African, Balinese, and South Indian musical traditions.  They combine strings, sounds and live electronics in a vibrantly fresh organic way which weaves their musicalities into an entirely new language, landscape and platform which stretches the acoustical nature of the instruments into innovative and mysterious sound realms.  

For bookings, contact:  HAYANGKIM@EARTHLINK.NET

STEFAN POETZSCH (VIOLIN/VIOLA/ELECTRONICS) GERMANY
 
Poetzsch was born in Magedburg/East Germany in 1963. After the long study of classical violin since the early childhood he changed his interest in the direction of Jazz, Contemporary Music, free improvisation.
 
He works aside from pure projects as musician with the dancer Bettina Essaka in various projects. He is specialised on the involvement of electronic possibilities for violin/viola in composition. 
As musician and composer he performed at Festivals and concerts in several countries in Europe/Africa/Japan and US. 
Serving the dual roles of composer and performer, one critic was prompted to write that Stefan's performance was "of technical brilliance. Was it the notes that guided the hands or was it the spirit? Only when this question cannot be clearly answered, one speaks of mastership."
He does not accept the rigid sound and technique most people associate with the violin.  Instead, he approaches the violin as a source of new sounds.  

HA-YANG KIM

	Born in Seoul, Korea, Ha-Yang Kim is a composer, cellist, and improvisor whose musical life draws from a range of western classical music, American experimentalism, rock, electronic, noise, avant-improv, to non-western musical sources.  She's performed throughout the US, Russia, Turkey, Morocco, Cuba, Bali, Canada, Europe, and Asia at festivals and venues around the world.  Kim's music is inspired by acoustic phenomena, ritual ceremonial processes, and characterized by an organic visceral lyricism of sound influenced by the East Asian sense of space and emptiness.  Ms. Kim developed a unique signature language of extended string techniques and has also composed music for film, theatre and multi-media.  She has performed Balinese gamelan music, studied Karnatic (South Indian) music concepts, and has worked with artists and ensembles such as Meredith Monk, Cecil Taylor, John Zorn, Christian Wolff, poet Anne Waldman, among many many others.   "AMA", a CD of her own compositions is released on Tzadik.  A new CD of her string quartet, "Threadsuns", is to be released on Tzadik in Spring 2014.  Ms. Kim lives and works in New York City.


Ha-Yang Kim & Stefan Poetzsch Duo: Live in Paris, 8Nov13, part II

HYK&SP Duo: Live in Paris, presented by La Société de Curiosités.

  Since 2000, composer-cellist Ha-Yang Kim (USA) and violinist/violist-composer Stefan Poetzsch (Germany) have collaborated on numerous performances, sound art installations and multi-media projects in Europe and in the US.  Their music moves freely and fluidly through free improvisation, classical, jazz, rock, electronic, avant-garde experimental, with keen senses of Korean, African, Balinese, and South Indian musical traditions.  They combine strings, sounds and live electronics in a vibrantly fresh organic way which weaves their musicalities into an entirely new language, landscape and platform which stretches the acoustical nature of the instruments into innovative and mysterious sound realms.  

For bookings, contact:  HAYANGKIM@EARTHLINK.NET

STEFAN POETZSCH (VIOLIN/VIOLA/ELECTRONICS) GERMANY
 
Poetzsch was born in Magedburg/East Germany in 1963. After the long study of classical violin since the early childhood he changed his interest in the direction of Jazz, Contemporary Music, free improvisation.
 
He works aside from pure projects as musician with the dancer Bettina Essaka in various projects. He is specialised on the involvement of electronic possibilities for violin/viola in composition. 
As musician and composer he performed at Festivals and concerts in several countries in Europe/Africa/Japan and US. 
Serving the dual roles of composer and performer, one critic was prompted to write that Stefan's performance was "of technical brilliance. Was it the notes that guided the hands or was it the spirit? Only when this question cannot be clearly answered, one speaks of mastership."
He does not accept the rigid sound and technique most people associate with the violin.  Instead, he approaches the violin as a source of new sounds.  

HA-YANG KIM

	Born in Seoul, Korea, Ha-Yang Kim is a composer, cellist, and improvisor whose musical life draws from a range of western classical music, American experimentalism, rock, electronic, noise, avant-improv, to non-western musical sources.  She's performed throughout the US, Russia, Turkey, Morocco, Cuba, Bali, Canada, Europe, and Asia at festivals and venues around the world.  Kim's music is inspired by acoustic phenomena, ritual ceremonial processes, and characterized by an organic visceral lyricism of sound influenced by the East Asian sense of space and emptiness.  Ms. Kim developed a unique signature language of extended string techniques and has also composed music for film, theatre and multi-media.  She has performed Balinese gamelan music, studied Karnatic (South Indian) music concepts, and has worked with artists and ensembles such as Meredith Monk, Cecil Taylor, John Zorn, Christian Wolff, poet Anne Waldman, among many many others.   "AMA", a CD of her own compositions is released on Tzadik.  A new CD of her string quartet, "Threadsuns", is to be released on Tzadik in Spring 2014.  Ms. Kim lives and works in New York City.


Ha-Yang Kim & Stefan Poetzsch Duo: Live in Paris, 8Nov13, Part I

Double manual wood sansa (kalimba) from Cameroon with preparations.  Live performance recording, no overdubs. Performed by HYK, Nov. '13 in Erlangen, Germany. 

Zsansi

Cello + electronics
Photo: Auroral corona over Norway by Harald Albrigtsen

Rise

Guitar, synth, piano, bells, singing bowls, electronics
April 2013
Score for the film "Dior and I", directed by Frederic Tcheng.
Guitar and recording engineered by Hahn Rowe.


Toast

From "AMA".  Available on Tzadik (www.tzadik.com)
Performed by Ha-Yang Kim, cello & pedals

www.tzadik.com

Lens

Scored for cello and percussion (2004)
From "AMA".  Available on Tzadik (www.tzadik.com)
Performed by Odd Appetite (Ha-Yang Kim, cello & Nathan Davis, percussion)

Oon (excerpt)

THREADSUNS
by Paul Celan (trans. Pierre Joris)

Above the gray black wastes.
A tree-
high thought
grasps the light-tone: there are
still songs to sing beyond
mankind.

**********
Released March 2014 on Tzadik: www.tzadik.com
Performed by JACK Quartet 

Recorded at EastSide Sound, NYC; Marc Urselli, engineer.
Mixed at Far Eastern NYC by Hahn Rowe. 
Mastered by Scott Hull.

Threadsuns for String Quartet (I mvmt)

THREADSUNS
by Paul Celan (trans. Pierre Joris)

Above the gray black wastes.
A tree-
high thought
grasps the light-tone: there are
still songs to sing beyond
mankind.

**********
Released March 2014 on Tzadik: www.tzadik.com
Performed by JACK Quartet

Recorded at EastSide Sound, NYC; Marc Urselli, engineer.
Mixed at Far Eastern NYC by Hahn Rowe. 
Mastered by Scott Hull.

Threadsuns for String Quartet (III mvmt)

Released March 2014 on Tzadik: www.tzadik.com
Performed by JACK Quartet

Recorded at EastSide Sound, NYC; Marc Urselli, engineer.
Mixed at Far Eastern NYC by Hahn Rowe. 
Mastered by Scott Hull.

Threadsuns for String Quartet (II mvmt)

Live at Roulette, 8 September 2012.  HYK and Hahn Rowe (live processing).
Unedited, unmixed version.  


La noche oscura del alma

Ha-Yang Kim creates new music as a composer and cellist, regularly collaborating with ensembles and artists in festivals and performance venues throughout the world.  Drawing from a breadth of western classical music, American experimentalism, rock, electronic, noise, avant-improv, to non-western sources, Kim's music is inspired by acoustic phenomena, ritual ceremonial processes, and characterized by an organic visceral lyricism of sound influenced by the East Asian sense of space and emptiness.  Ms. Kim developed a unique signature language of extended string techniques and has also composed music for film, theatre and multi-media.  Performances throughout the US, Europe, Asia, Russia, Turkey, Morocco, Bali, Cuba, Canada.  Released 2 discs of her compositions, "Ama" and "Threadsuns", on Tzadik.

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