Baudouin De Jaer
Baudouin de Jaer is a composer and violinist who writes for Korean traditional instruments, above all the geomungo and gayageum zithers, and also for daegeum, haegeum and orchestras of Korean instruments. He studied composition with Philippe Boesmans, Henri Pousseur and Frederic Rzewski, and with Bruce Mather at McGill University in Montreal. In 2010 he decoded the musical notation system of the Swiss artist Adolf Wölfli, work that Sub Rosa issued on the CD The Heavenly Ladder and in the book and CD Analysis Of The Musical Cryptograms.
Five Traces - Geomungo Compositions Vol III
Five Traces is a wordless opera in three acts. Its sound includes words and images. The notes must speakŠ this wordless opera is certainly my most daring experiment with text in sound.
4 Geomungo Sanjo Vol II
New compositions for ancient Korean instrument: the Geomungo. Follow-up to Baudouin de Jaer's highly-acclaimed Compositions for Geomungo and Gayageum (SR 373CD, 2012). Baudouin de Jaer tells... his large hands stir the air, drawing soft and assured l…
Lucy / Back To Normal
This double CD release brings together two founding pieces from Baudouin de Jaer: the first volcanic concert of Back To Normal in 1991, and the first concerto of Baudouin de Jaer, "Lucy", performed in 1993. Back To Normal was a collective of visual …