Tori-Ensemble - Korea

TORI Ensemble is a world music project ensemble which was founded in 2007 with HEO Yoon-jeong(geomun-go) and other Korean traditional artists such as KANG Kwon-soon(jeongga) and MIN Young-chi (daegum and janggu): and American free jazz artists Ned Rothenberg (clarinet and saxophone),
Satoshi Takeishi (percussion), and Erik Friedlander (cello).

The word tori derives from saturi (meaning dialect), a musical term denoting local style in Korean traditional music. The group aims to seek a new sound that can internalize a variety of tori in
traditional music, as well as harmonize with other toris in world music. It especially focuses on improvisation as an important aspect of Korean traditional music and attempts to create a unique
language through Asian intuition and musical idiom.

TORI Ensemble use traditional Korean musical instruments including geomun-go (six string zither), daeguem (transverse bamboo flute), piri (bamboo oboe), janggu (hourglass drum) with jeongga (classical lyric song).