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Free Range is back on Thursday 6th October with a fantastic new programme for 2016-2017
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HYELIM KIM

 

Free Range is back on Thursday 6th October with a fantastic new programme of events for 2016-2017.


Our first show features the extraordinary composer and improviser Hyelim Kim who plays a bamboo flute called a Taegŭm that is traditionally used in Korean court music, shamanic rituals and folk music. This instrument provides Hyelim with a unique perspective from which to make connections between traditional musics, jazz, free improvisation, electro acoustic experimentation and western contemporary classical music. She is joined by percussionist Jeunghyun Choi for a set with Taegŭm, drums and electronics.

This evening will begin with a specially commissioned poem to mark the opening of the fifth year of Free Range. This will be collaboratively written and performed by the Zone poetry collective.
Our new season has three strands: celebrating our 5th anniversary, exploring experimentation within existing traditions and making connections between the diverse new music scenes, collectives and festivals in our region.
 
On Thursday 12th January 2017 it will be 5 years to the day that Free Range began. Our events on and around this date will look back and ahead at what we’ve achieved and what we hope to achieve.
 
As a classically trained pianist I am particularly interested in the productive friction between creativity and craft and with this in mind we have programmed several events focused on experimentation within the context of tradition: The Bridge by Jasdeep Singh Degun finds connections between Indian and Western classical music (23rd February), Hyelim Kim uses the soundworld of Korean traditional music as a vantage point from which to survey the rest of the musical world (6th October), and our 1890’s night sees Aleks Kolkowski recording live onto wax cylinder with a Stroh violin - a violin with gramophone horn attachment (19th January).
 
One of the most exciting things about the new programme is that nine of the twenty events are co-curated by or involve local collectives, festivals, record labels or ensembles. Interest in experimental music and sound is growing fast in Kent and Free Range is proud to present events by Smugglers Records, Athelstan Sound, Extra Normal Records, the Profound Sound festival, Montrose Composers Club and Migro Records.
 
Other highlights that are coming soon include Byron Wallen’s extraordinary Four Corner’s Quartet (27th October) and Annie Whitehead with Penny Rimbaud and Jennifer Maidman (20th October).
 
Inspired by the incredible openness and receptivity to experimental music shown by the children who came to our Free Range City festival we will be starting a Free Range Parents and Childrens Orchestra in November. Watch this space for more information…
 
And yes, Free Range is still free at point of delivery. We are pleased to return to the wonderful Water Lane Coffeehouse (just off Stour Street, 1 minute from Canterbury high Street) and events will start at the usual time of 8.30 with doors opening at 7.30.
 
If you would like to ensure that we are able to continue to do what we do then please consider donating using the button below.

See you soon,
 
Sam
 
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