Composer/Conductor: Jason Kao Hwang

Violins:  Charlie Burnham, Julianne Carney, Mark Chung, Leonor Falcon, Fung Chern Hwei, Keir GoGwilt, Rosi Hertlein, Sana Nagano, Ben Sutin,Tom Swafford

Violas:  Melanie Dyer, Joanne Mattrey, Eric Salazar, Ginger Dolden

Cello: Dara Bloom, Tomas Ulrich

Bass:  Ken Filiano, Max Johnson

Guitars:  David Ross, Hans Tammen

Drum set:  Andrew Drury

Jason Kao Hwang’s composition, Myths of Origin, performed by his improvising string orchestra, defies mainstream society’s enduring fetish for Orientalist fantasies, a history woven inextricably into unconscious biases that can, as evident in this past year’s exponential increase of hate crimes against Asian Americans, progress into explicitly racist violence. This music will be performed on March 5, 8pm, at the Zurcher Gallery, 33 Bleeker Street (bet. Lafayette and Bowery). Admission: $20

Myths of Origin, inspired by jazz, funk, new music, classical and world traditions, forges a unique language, free of genre expectations, to revolutionize our relationships to each other. It will be performed by Jason Kao Hwang’s improvising string orchestra, which is comprised of musicians from a wide variety of backgrounds.

Through a notated score interacting with improvisations that are shaped by a lexicon of conducting gestures, the orchestra will conjure images of mercurial beauty. Vibrations rise and fall in a life cycle whirling and grooving through consciousness faster than the speed of thought. The flow of spontaneous moments illuminates the possibilities of our journey, revealing truths of who we can become. To be transformed by possibilities grounded in truth, is to transcend all Myths of Origin.

At Zürcher Gallery
33 Bleecker Street, New York, NY 10012

Proof of vaccination and masks are required to enter the gallery.
Admission is $20. All proceeds go to the artists.