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Love Letters to a Third Culture Kid
Fifty-odd notes Kalun's parents left him on the backs of phone bills. None say “I love you.” All of them are about food. Our first piece with three mubones at once.
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Love Letters to a Third Culture Kid — premiere
Flux Festival, in a chapel in Montréal. The first time three of us played mubone together.
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Dartmouth Music Festival
Two days with Dartmouth students, then a show two weeks later at The Warehouse in Hanover, New Hampshire.
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Darmstadt 2025 — workshops and the Kranichstein Prize
Two open workshops in Darmstadt, and the Kranichstein Prize.
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CSA: Copenhagen, teaser
Three nights in a boiler room, May 2025.
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Conversations with Space and Architecture
A series where the building gets to play too. We listen to a place, leave sounds all over it, and by the end the walls are covered in them.
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Conversations with Space and Architecture: Denmark
Three nights in an old boiler room in Copenhagen, a different one of us leading each night, and the first time the walls lit up.
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Migrations
Kalun and Bettina, both newcomers to Montréal, move through Hong Kong street sounds played across more than forty speakers.
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Migrations — premiere at live@CIRMMT
Two sensors, two dancers, more than forty speakers, and Pamela Z on the same bill.
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Ensemble In Situ
Mubone with a group of improvisers. The other players stand around the room like sound statues, and the trombone points at whoever it wants to hear.
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Garcia
The first mubone piece. Kalun's childhood nanny found him on Facebook after decades and sent photos of a childhood he doesn't remember.
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Garcia — premiere
The first mubone piece, in Bakarlari's Txaranga concert at Le Vivier.
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Movement Etudes for Improvisors
An early detour: mubone on clarinets, written for the NYU New Music Ensemble.
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mubone debut, NYC Electroacoustic Improvisation Summit
Excerpts from the first public performance, 2019. 3 min.