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For the film Gyeonggye, the concept is a type of travel metaphor (not literally) but with Korean traditional Gugak performance movement through physical locations of arches, gravestones into the hidden bush within a London cemetery (Abney Park in Stoke Newington). The idea is to move from hidden beauty within the bushscapes of the graveyard into skyward ascendance, and slowly return to arches/gravestones/hidden bushes within the cemetery as ‘grief reflection’ and ‘healing’. The colour comes through gently as abstractionist painting approaches to show some burgeoning moments in nature as a metaphor to suggest healing processes amidst grief.
Pedro Velasco (director/editor/cinematographer/camera operator/director of photography [DOP]/producer)
Hyelim Kim (taegŭm/performer/concepts/producer)
Bruce Crossman (composer/concepts/producer)
Film Recording: November 2021
Abney Park in Stoke Newington, London, United Kingdom
Sound Recording (taegŭm) November 21 2020 at Stella Polaris Studios, London, United Kingdom
Mixed at Stella Polaris Studios, London, United Kingdom and Building F (studio), Western Sydney University in Sydney, Australia
Session Producer Oyvind Aamli and Hyelim Kim (London)
Session/Mastering Engineer Øyvind Aamli (London)
Mastering Engineer Michell Hart (Sydney)
NB Image Credits:
Bruce Crossman (portrait)
Photograph credit: Vincent Tay.
Gyeonggye: Border (hand, bowl and person)
Film still: Pedro Velasco
Crossman is a composer with interests across visual arts, East Asian architecture, poetry and music (classical, traditional world and improvisatory musics) with a focus on Asian-Pacific musical identity. He holds a Doctor of Creative Arts from Wollongong University with other degrees from the University of York and Otago University and has achieved international recognition with performances in Australasia, Asia (China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Philippines), Europe and the USA. Highlights include working with the Kanagawa Philharmonic (Japan), Korean Symphony Orchestra, New Asia String Quartet at the Pacific Rim Music Festival in the USA, and with Kawamura Taizan (shakuhachi) at the Asian Music Festival 2010 in Tokyo and shihans Tomotsune Bizan and Kikuchi Kouzan’s for the Opening Concert ‘Asia, Asia, Asia’, Yokohama Minato-Mirai Hall at Asian Music Festival 2014 in Japan. Recent projects include performances at the ISCM World New Music Days in Beijing and Asian Composers League Festival and Conference in Taiwan in 2018, and collaborations with Korean Gugak performers, gayageum master Yi Jiyoung (Seoul) and taegum virtuoso Hyelim Kim (London) for a 2021 album release by Navona (USA). His research included working as Scholar-in-Residence, at the David C. Lam Institute for East-West Studies (LEWI) in Hong Kong. National recognition has come from Australia and New Zealand with awards and composer residencies. Highlights include a Finalist Nomination in the APRA-Australian Music Centre Classical Music Awards and the Mozart Fellowship at Otago University.