Juro Kim Feliz
composer, pianist, music educator
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Nomadic Sound Worlds
the existence of the space
The new exile… (Part 1)
I started writing this post so many weeks ago, but I couldn't continue at that time. I stopped counting the days since everyone was forced to stay at home and practice social distancing. For some, this should be aptly named "physical distancing" and not "social distancing," but the latter has more profound implications for me [...]
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Activities at a glance...
Digital release of "Weekend Rain" and "Hanggang sa Paglubog ng Araw" in "MusiKolektibo presents: Tunog Lata" February 3, 2023 • Compilation album release by MusiKolektibo.
Digital release of "Kinalugarán" (audio essay) in "Deep Wireless 17" February 4, 2023 • Compilation album release by New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA) for the Deep Wireless Festival of Radio & Transmission Art.
"Ni ici, ni là-bas" in CAMPGround23 March 16, 2023 • Performance by Julianna Eidle (alto flute), presented by Contemporary Art Music Project (Tampa Bay, FL).
World premiere of "Kina-i-ngátan" March 30, 2023 • Commissioned and presented by New Music Concerts. Premiere by Guy Few (trumpet) (Toronto).
Artist residency at Willapa Bay AiR (Oysterville, WA) September 1, 2023 – September 27, 2023
A magazine publication and premieres to close off 2022 December 9, 2022
Making the old dragon sing October 24, 2022
A feature in Musicworks, premieres, and a new music release! July 21, 2022
Past activities...
‣ DECEMBER 2022
Hanggang sa Paglubog ng Araw in Listening Lounge, SONIC MATTER Festival 2022 (Zürich)
‣ NOVEMBER 2022
Publication of "Examining the Asian Imaginary in Philippine Contemporary Music"
Musika Jornal Vol. 13 (2021) article, published by the UP Center for Ethnomusicology (Quezon City, Philippines).
Digital world premiere of O forse, l'ho già perduta poco a poco...
Premiere by Wesley Shen (piano), presented by Freesound (Toronto/online).
‣ OCTOBER 2022
Publication of "Resequencing Resonances"
Musicworks magazine article (Fall 2022) on musical repatriation in Canadian music venues. Featuring lore man Richard Scott-Moore (Goombine), singer Marion Newman, and scholar Jeremy Strachan.
Japanese koto mentorship (New York City, NY)
Part of a year-long professional development program on studying the koto under Masayo Ishigure, funded by the Canada Council for the Arts.
‣ JULY 2022
World premiere of A Study in Exile, No. 3: Home is not a place on a map.
Premiere by Amy Hull (dancer), Rebecca Leonard (circus artist), and the Thin Edge New Music Collective. Presented in "Anthropic Traces," produced by Balancing on the Edge and A Girl in the Sky Productions (Toronto).
Digital release of Hanggang sa Takipsilim in "Mind & Machine, Vol. 4"
Compilation album released by Ravello Records
‣ JUNE 2022
Paper presentation of "Nomadic Sound Worlds: towards the transitory and the migratory" in Diasporic Solidarities
John Douglas Taylor Conference hosted by the Department of English and Cultural Studies, McMaster University.
Participation as a panel member of "Lost in Translation? When instruments and music are taken out of their cultural contexts"
Symposium hosted by Evergreen Gamelan Club and the Canadian Music Centre.
‣ APRIL 2022
World premiere of Kinalugarán
Commissioned by New Music Concerts (Toronto) in co-presentation with The Music Gallery. This new work is made possible with the financial support of the Ontario Arts Council.
Digital world premiere of Kinamulátan
Commissioned and premiered by Martin Carpentier (bass clarinet) and Joseph Petric (accordion). Co-presented by the Canadian Music Centre.
‣ FEBRUARY 2022
Digital world premiere of Weekend Rain
Presented in Shortwave Transmissions by Cities and Memory (Oxford, UK/online).
‣ AUGUST 2021
Appearance as radio host and producer of World Skip the Beat
Produced two episodes of World Skip the Beat under the name Grumpy Kitty Boy at CKUT 90.3 FM Montreal.
Lyric video release of Grumpy Kitty Boy's Train Tracks
Train Tracks is a track from the debut EP Show Me The Kibbles (2021).
Digital release of Grumpy Kitty Boy's debut EP Show Me The Kibbles
Includes the lyric video release of Dark Skies, with animations by Yuna Kim.
‣ JANUARY 2021
Digital release of Grumpy Kitty Boy's lead single Blue Eyes
Includes a lyric video release with animations by Yuna Kim.
Animated music video release of Grumpy Kitty Boy's Airplane Wings
Airplane Wings is Grumpy Kitty Boy's debut single. Video animation and direction by Yuna Kim.
Digital release of Grumpy Kitty Boy's debut single Airplane Wings
‣ MAY 2020
A Study in Exile, No. 4: Paagos in Cluster XI: Digital Edition (Winnipeg/online)
Participation in the "MCL Talks, Season 1"
April-September 2020
Presented by the Manila Composers Lab, this video series includes a feature on Sa Kanyang Paglayag in Episode 4.
Publication of "Neither Here Nor There: Musical Identity in the Global Flow"
Musicworks magazine article (Spring 2020) featuring composer Lieke van der Voort and sound artist April Aliermo.
Paper presentation of "Concentric Circular Spaces: Xenakis and Maceda on Diffusing, Translating, and Decentralizing Musical Thought in Southeast Asia" in Power in Southeast Asia
Canadian Council for Southeast Asian Studies (CCSAS) Conference 2019 hosted by McGill University and Longueuil-Université-de-Sherbrooke.
‣ SEPTEMBER 2019
Paper presentation of "Nomadic Sound Worlds: Towards the Transitory and the Migratory" in Transnationalism and Transculturalism in Canadian Contemporary Music (1969-2019)
Study day organized by Christopher Moore and hosted by the University of Ottawa.
Golden Balangay Awards 2019 Dinner Gala (Winnipeg)
Nomination for the "Excellence Award for Music and Entertainment."
Artist residency at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts (Nebraska City, NE)
World premiere of Time moves, straightforward...
Part of the production Cries of the Earth, presented by the Art Song Collaborative Project (Toronto). Premiered by Jonathan MacArthur (tenor), Meghan Cheng (violin), Evan Bowen (percussion), Kim Feliz (live electronics).
Participation in a panel for Encounters in Exile
Panel/public talk hosted by Soundstreams (Toronto). Also featuring a performance of A Study in Exile, No. 4: Paagos.
World premiere of A Study in Exile, No. 4: Paagos
Commissioned by dancer Sarah Samaniego and presented by Tangente Danse (Montreal).
Artist residency at Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts (Saratoga, WY)
Mexican premiere of Pangkur
September 7 and 22, 2018
Performed by Liminar. Presented by the Foro Internacional de Música Nueva Manuel Enríquez 2018 (September 7th) and the Palacio de Bellas Artes (September 22nd) (Mexico City).
(Live) world premiere of Hanggang sa Takipsilim
Presented by MUSLAB 2018 (Mexico City).
World premiere of In stars we'll lose our way...
Part of the production Coming Home, presented by the Art Song Collaborative Project (Toronto). Premiered by Alondra Vega-Zaldivar (soprano), Gwenna Fairchild-Taylor (soprano), Katherine Watson (flute), Alexander Smith (percussion), Caitlin Frasure (piano), Joel Tangjerd (cello).
Paper presentation of "An Imaginary of 'Asia' in Philippine Contemporary Music" in Nief-Norf Summer Festival 2018 (Knoxville, TN)
New Asia: Research Summit hosted by Nief-Norf in conjunction with its summer music festival of 2018. Includes a quartet performance of Pangkur.
Library residency at the Canadian Music Centre Ontario (Toronto)
April 2018 - December 2019
Produced the three-part article/podcast series Nomadic Sound Worlds.
American premiere of Pangkur at MATA Festival 2018 (New York City)
Premiered by Liminar.