Grossman Ensemble premieres Joungbum Lee's "condensed serenity"
Performance notes:
Joungbum Lee's piece condensed serenity premiered with the Grossman Ensemble on June 7, 2019.
Condensed serenity is inspired by a peculiar reoccurring dream of mine in which I see dozens of abstract images. Unlike my usual dreams that have some kind of narrative or based on my experience, this reoccurring dream has nothing but just a series of slightly vibrating and morphing images. Most of the images have a feeling of being observed from multiple bodies as if the dream is shared by others. It is a foreign sensation but there is strong calmness at the same time. Some of the images are thick and horizontal strips of gray and light blue rendered as fuzzy, hazy forms. Even though there seems to be no connection between successive scenes, I sense a sort of inevitability that unites individual images together. Within the dream some of the images remind me of the sound that I have forgotten. I do not remember what that sound was after I wake up. But I am inspired by the illogical sequence of images and sounds in this reoccurring dream and this piece is a reflection of my search for the forgotten sound.