Monchocé Studer
Sylvain Monchocé, gayageum
Daniel Studer, double bass
music:
Second Dialog, 2024, 3:23
Third Dialog, 2024, 5:06
Fourth Dialog, 2024, 10:13
Fifth Dialog, 2024, 8:39
Since 2021, the duo Monchocé Studer has been exploring the possibilities of this special combination of large string instruments, gayageum with Korean tradition, double bass with European tradition. The specific characteristics and backgrounds are deepened, transformed and expanded. The result is a rich and varied dialogue that continually explores surprising musical fields.
cd:
DUO, 2024
download photo 1 (see above), by Arsène Quichotte
download photo 2, by Arsène Quichotte
cd reviews (excerpts):
…einfallsreich, voller Spiellust und witziger Klang¬über¬raschungen. Ein Hörvergnügen…
Cécile Olshausen, Kulturtipp
…This duo is remarkable! It is truly difficult to find such a beautiful realization of intent around, it is an epiphany of improvised dialogue.
Ettore Garzia, Percorsi Musicali
…certainly a unique but wonderfully complementary pairing that shuns the classical European and Korean idioms in pursuit of non-traditional, denationalized, and particularly fertile common ground.
Nick Ostrum, The Free Jazz Collective
…per un verso affondano carnalmente nella materia, nei legni e nelle corde, perlustrati in maniera millimetrica, per un altro si offrono magicamente evanescenti e sfumate, danzanti creature incorporee…
Piercarlo Poggio, Blow Up