Greg Kelley/Yoona Kim – Distractions for Trumpet & Ajaeng

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Greg Kelley is an American, Massachusetts-based experimental trumpeter who has collaborated with musicians in experimental, free jazz, and noise, including Lori Goldston, Anthony Braxton, Kevin Drumm, Christian Wolff, Pauline Oliveros, Joe McPhee, and Lionel Marchetti, among many others. Kelley has also recorded music using electronics and musique concrete elements, sometimes utilizing trumpet-based sound sources, other times not.

Yoona Kim is a Korea-born, Boston-based ajaeng player and composer who reimagines her instrument beyond its traditional boundaries, as a living instrument that evolves across cultures and eras. The ajaeng – 아쟁 牙箏 – is a Korean traditional bowed zither played by rubbing 7 to 10 strings, which are arranged in order of pitch on a “goose foot” bridge with a wood stick bow or horsehair bow. Kim