A graphic score reinterpreted and revisited fourteen years after its creation by Jason Kahn, back in Seoul.
"The graphical score Dotolim was originally realized in 2009 and composed for the performance space Dotolim in Seoul. The musicians, Jin Sangtae, founder of Dotolim, and Joonyong Choi also performed on the 2009 version of the score. While on tour through Asia in 2023, I spent two nights performing and recording at Dotolim. My idea was to realize a new version of the score with the current generation of experimental musicians active in Seoul. And unlike for the first version where I worked with electronics, on this new recording I am using voice."<
Featuring Jason Kahn (voice, composition),
Taehyun Choi (stones, rubber band, contact microphone),
Jieun Wang (16mm analyser film projector, 16mm magnetic),
film, and magnetic card recorder),
Joonyong Choi (reel-to-reel tape player),
Jin Sangtae (electronics),
Jeong Woo Jang (amplified springs).
Each hand-painted cover on thick gray cardboard is unique (limited edition of 100 copies).
Jason Kahn (born 1960 in New York, lives and works in Zurich) is a musician and artist who grew up in Los Angeles, and relocated to Europe in 1990. His work includes sound installation, performance and experimental composition. Kahn has been exhibiting his sound and visual works since the late 1990s, and has had solo and group exhibitions internationally, including Townhouse Gallery of Contemporary Art, Cairo, Diapason Gallery, New York, and Centre d'Art Neuchatel, Switzerland. Originally a percussionist, Kahn later began integrating live electronics into his playing. As a composer, his work draws on electronic and acoustic sound sources to create slowly developing compositions imbued with a sense of timelessness. His work addresses the entity of sound as both a physical and psychological factor shaping our consciousness. Kahn's sound installations seek to enhance spatial awareness through sonic intervention, focusing on expanding our perception to other dimensions of seeing, hearing and feeling a space. Kahn has given concerts at various festivals, art spaces and clubs throughout the world, traveling and presenting extensively in Europe, North and South America, as well as Asia.
