A Conversation with ... Chang Jae Hyo
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- In this video, Cluster co-spokesperson Prof Dr Ute Fendler talks with the renowned South Korean percussionist Chang Jae Hyo about his activities affiliated with the Cluster of Excellence. In July 2024, Chang Jae Hyo visited the Cluster of Excellence to perform on two occasions. On 14 July, he gave a concert at Kulturhaus Neuneinhalb called "Maum Percussion" and on 19 July he was part of the Africa Caribbean Festival of Bayreuth. Together with Tao Ravao, Childo Tomas and Matchume Zango he performed centre stage on Bayreuth's city centre.
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- A Conversation with ... Chang Jae Hyo
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- A Conversation with ...
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- July 28, 2025
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- Hello. >> Hello. >> Welcome to Broid and at Africa Multiple Clust of Excellence. Um maybe also for those who would listen then to us it might be a bit strange to have Africa multiple but we are with a South Korean musician. Um, but uh you also play in very international settings and also with uh African and uh I mean musicians from all over the world. So maybe you can give us a short introduction of yourself and of your work and uh yeah and then also this connection between your music South Korea as a South Korean musician with African music. Yes, I'm I'm a percussionist and then I was study about Korean traditional singing and drumming >> and I don't know why but my life my life as a musician is became to going abroad out of Korea and I met many of musicians from all around the world and I have uh long relation with uh uh one Japanese world music festival name called the skiyaki world festival and I met there many of uh not many but very special musicians from Africa >> and I was luckily to have a chance to play and perform with them in 2011 we spent like three weeks Mhm. U resident there and yeah I I was really learn a lot uh through that uh uh residence program and luckily really I I was I had a chance to >> uh travel uh with them >> in 2012 February >> uh we went to Africa >> like South Africa, Tanzania, Zimbabwe Switzerland. So um yeah uh why I'm here in Africa multiple program because I think uh it it's not I'm really special but I can be a kind of uh uh person who uh can be a bridge between uh Korea and Africa because uh especially in in Korea, South Korea And there is not many African people and Korean people not much know about African culture. >> And for example, even for myself some until some years ago uh I was thinking Africa is a kind of one color. >> I mean not the skins uh as a culturally that there is really big but I have no idea about Africa. uh even I I was visit to to the Africa but finally I I realized that uh Africa is really really big huge… Read the full text about 2,938 words
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