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BANGKOK: TWELVE INCARNATIONS
A Meta-Symphony in Time and Space
by Bruce Gaston and Somtow Sucharitkul with the Siam Philharmonic Orchestra and Fong Naam
It's a meta-symphony being created right in front of your very eyes and ears, music woven out of the very fabric of Bangkok's newest hub of creativity. The piece is designed for Bangkok's Art and Culture Centre, using all the spaces, shapes, and angles to be found within it. "Bangkok: Twelve Incarnations" celebrates a city that is constantly reborn.
In their first co-composed composition since 1977's "Hexaphony", Somtow Sucharitkul and Bruce Gaston are putting together a year-long artwork, one movement or "incarnation" every month, timed with the constellations of the zodiac. The work will be collected into a gargantuan video set.
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 twelve "incarnations" have been performed, the work will be collected into a gargantuan video set.
The meta-symphony can be experienced from many vantage points in the BACC, but we recommend the lobby or one of the balconies.
Donations will be accepted for the Bangkok Opera HIV Awareness Project.