"GOm Show" is an art project inspired by ceramic culture but does not follow the storytelling method of images or dialogue, but chooses an approach using music to awaken memories and open up imagination.
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| A unique performance of "GOm Show". (Source: Organizing Committee) |
Here, the pottery wheel becomes the narrator, and the jars, pots, gongs, bells, etc. are crafted into musical instruments, becoming characters telling the story of the land and the Vietnamese people.
Without recreating history through description or interpretation, the program leads listeners through chapters and sections corresponding to an emotional life cycle, through performances named Return, That Time, Downstream, Finding Hani, Gathering ...
Each performance represents indigenous communities such as M'nong, Tay, Lo Lo, Nung Din, E De, Ha Nhi... performed with music combining folk instruments and creative ceramic instruments, bringing an experience that is both authentic and novel.
“GOm Show” is the idea of that group of musicians, established more than 12 years ago with a consistent creative journey based on indigenous materials.
The program uses special musical instruments that the group has researched and created themselves, such as: jar drums (using ceramic jars and inner tubes to create super low sounds like a giant bass); lang drums (shaped like rice cakes, with warm, low sounds like echoes from underground); ceramic gongs and ceramic bells (creating sounds from baked clay with unique timbre structures, each one is a separate sound entity); rotating ceramics (resonating by rotating the mouth of the ceramic, creating a soft reverberating effect); clay pot lute (gentle sounds reverberating from clay pots)...
With the philosophy of "taking culture as the root, taking people as the energy", all of the group's projects originate from Vietnamese materials and spirit, creating works of art that are imbued with indigenous character and contemporary spirit.
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| The art project is attracting the participation of many young artists. (Source: Organizing Committee) |
"GOm Show" is a new turning point in the group's artistic journey, along with the transition between two generations of artists - experienced founders and young, potential artists.
This is also the prospect of creative music based on indigenous cultural materials, with a new system of musical instruments crafted from pottery and terracotta, bringing completely new sounds.
Source: https://baoquocte.vn/dua-gom-viet-vao-dong-chay-nghe-thuat-duong-dai-317316.html
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