CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) presents Crossing Boundaries Concert Series Vol. 20, curated by Jen Shyu, featuring new work by Val Jeanty (SoundChemist), Jen Shyu (vocals, Taiwanese moon lute, Japanese biwa, Korean gayageum), & Sumi Tonooka (piano). The concert will take place on Sunday, November 5, 2023 at 6:30 pm at the world-renowned Jazz Gallery. The trio will present new material exploring the theme of immigration, growing out of their own rich multi-ethnic family and musical histories, from Africa, Japan, Timor, Taiwan, Haiti, and beyond. This concert mixes music with movement and text, further developing material which was first introduced during Jen Shyu’s spring residency at The Stone. TICKET […]

CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) presents the 21st concert in its Crossing Boundaries series, gamin x yuniya edi kwon: OO / LL / IM, curated by gamin, at Abrons Art Center as part of the @Abrons Series. OO / LL / IM is an interdisciplinary ritual performance – a passageway through which grief, entanglements, and historical cycles might reverberate and be witnessed. As artists of a diverse Korean continuum, gamin and kwon approach performance as spiritual spaces containing at once tradition and experimentalism, and through their explorations of improvisation, composition, text, and movement, they create openings for new syncretic lineages to emerge. As a duo, gamin and yuniya edi […]

CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) presents Crossing Boundaries Concert Series vol. 22, gamin x elizabeth hoffman, curated by gamin, in the Immersion Room, Avery Fisher Center, on the 7th Floor of NYU’s Bobst Library on Washington Square South. This concert explores the profound theme of crossing boundaries, a continuation of our series that invites reflection on the values of transcending limits. Whether these boundaries are forbidden zones, mental constructs, or cultural divergences, the performance seeks to bring them into mutual awareness. Through a powerful blend of music and meditation, this event challenges audiences to rethink the divisions that shape our world and to discover the unity that lies beyond. […]

CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) presents  Crossing Boundariesコンサートシリーズ　Vol.23：“Unfolding Circle”by Oto MugenをJazz Galleryにて開催します。Remaー蓮見令麻 （作曲、ピアノ、キーボード、ヴォーカル）を中心に、アダム・レイン（アコースティック・ベース）、ランディ・ピーターソン（ドラムス）のトリオは、聴く者を内省的な瞑想から変容的なカタルシスへと優しく導く多様なサウンドスケープを作り出し、没入感のある聴覚の旅を演出します。どうぞ、お楽しみに！ Sets start at 7:30 and 9 pm and one ticket is good for either set or both. Drinks are available in the Jazz Gallery lounge before and after each set. The audience will experience fleeting yet profound interplay between tension and release, chaos and calm. The concert creates a space where we share a moment of unfolding, where what we carry transforms in the presence of collective experience. Oto Mugen The group came together in 2022 as a project led by Rema Hasumi (piano, synthesizers, voice), joined by Randy Peterson (drums) and Adam Lane(acoustic bass). Hasumi […]

CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) presents Crossing Boundaries Concert Series vol. 23: “Unfolding Circle”by Oto Mugen. Led by Rema Hasumi (composition, piano, keyboards, vocals) with Adam Lane on acoustic bass and Randy Peterson on drums, the trio curates an immersive auditory journey, crafting a diverse array of soundscapes that gently lead listeners from introspective meditation to transformative catharsis. Sets start at 7:30 and 9 pm and one ticket is good for either set or both. Drinks are available in the Jazz Gallery lounge before and after each set. The audience will experience fleeting yet profound interplay between tension and release, chaos and calm. The concert creates a space where […]

CRS（Center for Remembering & Sharing）とFridman Galleryがお届けする、魂を揺さぶる一夜——「Crossing Boundaries 24: Between Breaths: A Sonic Memoir with gamin」。韓国生まれの米国在住アーティスト、gaminによる、心に染み入るマルチメディア・パフォーマンスです。マルチインストゥルメンタリストとして輝く彼女は、韓国の重要無形文化財第46号の公式継承者Yisujaに認定された逸材です。この特別な作品で、gaminは息づかい一つひとつに宿る記憶と、遠き祖先のささやきを、美しい音の糸で紡ぎ上げ、観客の皆さまを深淵なるメモワールの世界へ優しく導きます。 2025年12月1日午後7時、Fridman Galleryで、この息をのむような旅が始まります。チケットは27.74ドル——今すぐオンラインで確保して、忘れがたい感動をあなたのものに！ online. “Her music is unlike anything else in the world.” — New York Music Daily Drawing on her monograph of family history and cultural heritage, she brings to life the stories of her foremothers through the sounds of traditional Korean wind instruments—the piri, saenghwang, and taepyeongso—blurring the lines between ritual and recital. Through improvisation and Korean modes, each breath becomes a vessel of resilience, migration, and belonging. Between Breaths, created by gamin, is a meditation on lineage, transformation, and transcendence—where tradition is reimagined through feminist and intercultural lenses, and breath becomes memory, ritual, […]

CRS（Center for Remembering & Sharing）は、2025年12月14日（日）午後7時、グリニッジ・ハウス・ミュージックホールにて「Crossing Boundaries 25：When the Ancestors Speak」を開催します。Jen Shyuがキュレーションを務めるこの作品は、Jen Shyu（ボーカル、台湾月琴、日本琵琶、韓国の伽倻琴）、Sumi Tonooka（ピアノ）、Val Jeanty（SoundChemist）によるもので、アフリカ、日本、ティモール、台湾、ハイチなど、多様な民族が共存する豊かな家族と音楽の歴史から生まれた「移民」というテーマを探求しています。このコンサートは音楽を動きとテキストと融合させ、Jen Shyuの2023年のThe Stoneでのレジデンシーで初めて紹介された素材をさらに発展させたもので、その秋の『Crossing Boundaries 20』で展開したテーマをさらに発展させています。（トリオの写真：Mariana Meraz 撮影） TICKET LINK: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/when-the-ancestors-speak-by-jen-shyu-sumi-tonooka-and-val-jeanty-tickets-1860031316739 VENUE LOCATION: Greenwich House Music School 46 Barrow Street New York, NY 10014 DIRECTIONS: Greenwich House Music School is located in the West Village just west of Seventh Avenue. The Music Hall is located on the second floor, and there is no elevator or wheelchair access. NEAREST SUBWAY STATIONS:   The nearest MTA station is the 1/9 station at Christopher Street – Sheridan Square. ABOUT CROSSING BOUNDARIES CONCERT SERIES CROSSING BOUNDARIES is a concert series devoted to dissolving boundaries between performers and audiences, the traditional and contemporary, […]