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The Sundara All Star Band[edit]

The Sundara All Star Band performing Jung Hee Choi Tonecycle for Blues Base 30 Hz, 2:3:7 Ensemble Version with 4:3 and 7:6. MELA Dream House, New York. 2017.
The Sundara All-Star Band
OriginNew York City
Genresavant-garde, blues, minimalism, improvisational, electroacoustic, drone, just intonation
Associated actsThe Just Alap Raga Ensemble
MembersLa Monte Young, voice

Marian Zazeela, voice Jung Hee Choi, voice Jon Catler, fretless guitar Hansford Rowe, fretless bass

Naren Budhkar, tabla
Past membersBrad Catler, fretless bass

The Sundara All Star Band is Jung Hee Choi’s electroacoustic modal improvisation ensemble, which premiered in 2015 performing her Tonecycle for Blues Base 30 Hz, 2:3:7 Ensemble Version with 4:3 and 7:6 at Dia 15 VI 13 545 West 22 Street Dream House, Dia Art Foundation, New York.[1]

The founding members include La Monte Young, Marian Zazeela, Jung Hee Choi, voices; Jon Catler, fretless guitar; Brad Catler, fretless bass and Naren Budhkar, tabla. In September/October 2016 the ensemble performed again in a setting of Choi’s solo exhibition, Ahata Anahata, Manifest Unmanifest X in the MELA Foundation Dream House with Hansford Rowe, fretless bass, who joined the ensemble in 2016.

The precursor of the ensemble, consisting of the three vocalists, La Monte Young, Marian Zazeela and Jung Hee Choi, premiered the origin of Choi’s composition, Tonecycle Base 65 Hz, 2:3:7 Vocal Version, which subsequently evolved into Tonecycle for Blues Base 30 Hz, in 2010 as part of Ahata Anahata, Manifest Unmanifest III.[2] This solo exhibition featured the sound environment, Tonecycle Base 65 Hz, 2:3:7 Vocal Version. In 2011, the world premiere of two live concerts of Tonecycle Base 65 Hz, 2:3:7 Vocal Version were presented with La Monte Young, Marian Zazeela and Jung Hee Choi in her solo exhibition, Ahata Anahata, Manifest Unmanifest IV in the MELA Dream House.[3]

The New York Times listed Choi’s Tonecycle for Blues as one of The Best Classical Music Performances of 2017, “Heard in its latest iteration, this October, the deep groove of the work’s slow-tempo ‘ektal vilampit’ section had a unique majesty. Heaving funk progressions from a fretless [guitar and] bass mingled with tabla percussion and sustained vocal tones of pristine calm.”[4]

Members[edit]

The founding members include La Monte Young, Marian Zazeela, Jung Hee Choi, voices; Jon Catler, fretless guitar; Brad Catler, fretless bass and Naren Budhkar, tabla. Hansford Rowe, fretless bass joined the ensemble in 2016.

Style[edit]

The Sundara All Star Band performed live in Choi’s sound environment, Tonecycle Base 30 Hz, 2:3:7 Vocal Version.[5]

Choi writes, “For the live performance of Tonecycle for Blues Base 30 Hz, 2:3:7 with 4:3 and 7:6, I added two frequencies to the lower tetrachord: the septimal minor third, 7:6, and the perfect fourth, 4:3, which yield the septimal second, 8:7 between the 7:6 and the 4:3 frequency ratios of the scale. These successive superparticular ratios, 7:6 and 8:7 make the lower tetrachord symmetrical to the upper tetrachord divided by a whole tone, 9:8, such that the tonic, the septimal minor third and the perfect fourth degrees of the lower tetrachord are symmetrical to the perfect fifth, the septimal minor seventh and the octave of the upper tetrachord. These musical proportions of the scale have a close relationship to the ascending form of Raga Bhimpulasi and America’s own Blues." [6]

Performance History[edit]

  • October 15 and 23, 2015, Jung Hee Choi’s Tonecycle for Blues Base 30 Hz, 2:3:7 Ensemble Version with 4:3 and 7:6 in her sound environment, Tonecycle Base 30 Hz, 2:3:7 Vocal Version at Dia 15 VI 13 545 West 22 Street Dream House, Dia Art Foundation, New York; La Monte Young, Marian Zazeela, Jung Hee Choi, voices; Jon Catler, fretless guitar; Brad Catler, fretless bass; Naren Budhkar, tabla. 
  • September 23, October 1 and October 7, 2016, Jung Hee Choi’s Tonecycle for Blues Base 30 Hz, 2:3:7 Ensemble Version with 4:3 and 7:6 in her sound environment, Tonecycle Base 30 Hz, 2:3:7 Vocal Version at MELA Dream House, New York City; La Monte Young, Marian Zazeela, Jung Hee Choi, voices; Jon Catler, fretless guitar; Hansford Rowe, fretless bass; Naren Budhkar, tabla.
  • September 30, October 6 and 14, 2017, Jung Hee Choi’s Tonecycle for Blues Base 30 Hz, 2:3:7 Ensemble Version with 4:3 and 7:6 in her sound environment, Tonecycle Base 30 Hz, 2:3:7 Vocal Version at MELA Dream House, New York City; La Monte Young, Marian Zazeela, Jung Hee Choi, voices; Jon Catler, fretless guitar; Hansford Rowe, fretless bass; Naren Budhkar, tabla.

References[edit]

  1. Performance Schedule from the Dia Art Foundation website. Retrieved December 1, 2017. https://www.diaart.org/program/archive/dia-15-vi-13-545-west-22-street-dream-house-exhibition/year/2015
  2. Art Agenda press release, http://www.art-agenda.com/shows/mela-foundation-presents-jung-hee-choi-ahata-anahata-manifest-unmanifest-iii/
  3. MELA Foundation website, http://www.melafoundation.org/arch_2012.htm.
  4. Seth Colter Walls, “A Funky Updating of Minimalism,” The Best Classical Music Performances of 2017, December 11, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/06/arts/music/best-classical.html
  5. Jung Hee Choi, Notes for the live performance, Tonecycle for Blues Base 30 Hz, 2:3:7 Ensemble Version with 4:3 and 7:6, The Sundara All Star Band, October 15 and 23, 2015, Dia 15 VI 13 545 West 22 Street Dream House, Dia Art Foundation, New York. http://jungheechoi.com/tonecycle-for-blues-base-30-hz-237-ensemble-version-with-43-and-76/
  6. Jung Hee Choi, Notes for the live performance, Tonecycle for Blues Base 30 Hz, 2:3:7 Ensemble Version with 4:3 and 7:6, The Sundara All Star Band, October 15 and 23, 2015, Dia 15 VI 13 545 West 22 Street Dream House, Dia Art Foundation, New York. http://jungheechoi.com/tonecycle-for-blues-base-30-hz-237-ensemble-version-with-43-and-76/


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