Bruce Gaston, the first non-Thai artist to win the Silpathorn Award, will join hands with internationallyacclaimed Thai conductor Somtow Sucharitkul to present their co-composed Avatar Dvadas during the first leg of the "Bangkok:Twelve Incarnations" concert series at the Bangkok Art & Culture Centre, Pathumwan intersection, on Sept 20 at 7pm.
The piece is a meta-symphony in time and space being created right in front of your very eyes and ears with music woven out of the very fabric of Bangkok's newest hub of creativity. It is designed especially for the centre, using all the spaces, shapes and angles to be found within it.
In their first co-composed composition since 1977's Hexaphony , Somtow and Bruce are putting together a year-long artwork, one movement or "incarnation"every month, timed with the constellations of the zodiac.
It's a new kind of art which could only have been created in Bangkok. Part improvisation, part environmental music,part kinetic art, the work is designed to be experienced live. Once the 12 incarnations have been performed, the work will be collected into a gargantuan video set.
This very first incarnation, inspired by the constellation Virgo, will see Bruce and Somtow co-conduct members of the Siam Philharmonic and Fong Nam ensembles.
There is no admission fee but donations will be accepted for the Bangkok Opera's HIV Awareness Project. For more information, contact Bangkok Art & Culture Centre on 02-214-6630/8(10am-9pm on Tue-Sun).
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