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Below The Radar Special Edition: Otoroku

Track 12

Park Jiha (left) and Roy Claire Potter

"Saenghwang For The Milky Boys"

From To Call Into The Night

Influenced by linguistics and performance theory, Roy Claire Potter makes performances, texts, drawings, installations and films, and often collaborates with musicians and sound artists to make audio for music festivals and radio. Across the range of their practice, Potter tells stories built from fragmented images that depict moving bodies or domestic scenes and architectural settings.

Park Jiha creates exploratory music rooted in traditional Korean instrumental performance. For the session that produced To Call Into The Night, she brought three instruments: a Korean hammered dulcimer called a yanggeum, a saenghwang which is an instrument made of 24 slender bamboo pipes attached to a bowl and played like a harmonica, and a double-reed bamboo flute called a piri, which sounds similar to an oboe.

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