The Vex Collection, a remarkable trio employing non-western instruments to startling & intensely beautiful effect, perform in the intimacy of a house concert. The eatures Mat Muntz (Croatian/Bulgarian bagpipes, bass and electronics); gamin (the Korean woodwinds piri, taepyeongso, saenghwang); and Vicente Atria (drums and electronics).
The Vex Collection uses unheard-of combinations of traditional instruments, newly devised musical contraptions, and a philosophy of mad-scientific experimentation in their pursuit of ancient and futuristic sounds. The Vex Collection grew from Mat and Vicente’s shared fascination with the double reed, an ancient musical technology developed by virtually every culture on Earth in order to produce loud, brilliant, and beautifully intense sounds. On their self-titled debut, the striking presences of traditional instruments from Scotland, Korea, and the Balkans are not softened or altered so as to better blend with one another; they are allowed to clash thunderously in one moment and synthesize miraculously in the next, imagining some forgotten past where these sounds could have emerged as part of an organic folk tradition.
Cost: $30