Sunday 30 March 2025, 7.30pm
Doors are at 7:30pm and music will start from 8pm
Hyelim Kim | daegeum
Madison Greenstone | clarinet
eavesdropping returns to Cafe OTO for another four-day festival, curated by Juliet Fraser, which includes four evening double-bill events and a weekend-long forum (at Vortex Jazz Cafe) of provocations exploring 'Experiments in Magic'. We hope to stimulate your ears and your imagination by presenting new work by eight artists working at the experimental fringes of a variety of genres. The programming within each set is artist-led: repertoire is only announced on the night.
eavesdropping
eavesdropping is a platform for the sharing of new music and new ways of thinking about music. Excited by experimentalism, we create opportunities for artists and audiences to practise engaged listening and compassionate debate. Our activity includes a festival, a forum, a podcast, and training and development workshops. Our mission is to build community through an ethics of curiosity and care, in the belief that ripples do make waves.
https://www.eavesdropping.london
eavesdropping is a PRS Foundation Talent Development Network Partner supported by PPL. eavesdropping gratefully acknowledges the generous support of Arts Council England's National Lottery Project Grants, the Hinrichsen Foundation & the eavesdropping consortium.
HYELIM KIM is a composer and daegeum (Korean flute) soloist, renowned for her innovative intercultural and interdisciplinary approaches rooted in Korean traditional music. As a daegeum virtuoso, she has been recognized as an ‘emerging artist’ by the Korean Arts Council and a Kumho Young Artist. Kim has performed with Nils Frahm on BBC Radio 3’s Late Junction and premiered a daegeum concertino with the Orchestre de chambre de Paris. Her accolades include the Gold Medal at the Korean National Daegeum Competition and 1st prize at the Korean National Chongro Music Competition. She has graced prestigious festivals worldwide, such as the London Jazz Festival, Melbourne Women’s Festival, and China International Bamboo Flute Festival. In 2023, she was awarded the Paul Hamlyn Award for composers in London, UK, cementing her position as a leading figure in contemporary and traditional music circles.
MADISON GREENSTONE is a clarinetist, writer and member of TAK Ensemble. Their solo practice, exstatic resonances, explores phenomenological, material and spatial expressivities of sound through richly noisy timbral actions, often performed at a high volume. Madison performs across the US and internationally as a soloist and chamber musician. They have been presented by the New York Philharmonic, LAMPO, KM28, ISSUE Project Room, the Vigeland Mausoleum, Night of Surprise and Bangkok Arts and Cultural Center. As a writer, Madison has contributed critical essays on experimental music to Blank Forms, Museum of Art and Natural History of Neuchâtel, Contemporary Music Review and LAMPO Publications. They can be heard on Important Records, Relative Pitch, Longform Editions, Another Timbre, Greyfade, Wandelweiser Editions and Impakt Kollektiv, among others. Madison resides in Brooklyn.
