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Ensemble Mik Nawooj

Ensemble Mik Nawooj

About Me

Ensemble Mik Nawooj --- consists of classically trained musicians (flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, bass), a drummer, and an emcee. The ensemble performs innovative music of composer/pianist JooWan Kim, which blends such genres as classical, hip-hop, film music, jazz, and pop into a unique musical hybrid. Since the first public performance in spring of 2005, EMN has gathered much attention and shock from various music fans for its uncompromising blend of rap and classical. Ensemble Mik Nawooj is, by far, the only band that successfully merged the vernacular with traditional Western European music without losing the integrity of both genres. EMN , however, is neither a hip-hop band nor classical ensemble. It lies in the common place where all music lives and breathes, expanding and transmuting its sound. Leader of Mik Nawooj, JooWan Kim is a Taoist/Zen practitioner as well as a connoisseur of fine tea. In 2006, JooWan signed a management contract with the Jazz Legend Ahmad Jamal. In 2007, he received a lifetime endorsement from the Steinway and Sons Piano Company.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 5/25/2005
Band Website: elloradesigns.com/JooWanKim.html
Band Members: flute- Jill Heinke,clarinet- Karla Avila,violin- Ken Lin,cello- TBA,piano/composition- JooWan Kim,drum- Valentino Pellizzer,bass- Rob Woodcock,MC- Kirby Dominant
Influences: Ahmad Jamal, Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Wagner, Cecil Taylor, Astor Piazzolla, Ligeti, Ennio Morricone, Hindemith, Dr. Dre, J-Dilla, Steve Reich, Louis Andriessen, and many others.
Sounds Like: my daimons
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Quote of the day

"Fish would come to me of their own volition when they were ready" -Jiang Taigong
Posted by Ensemble Mik Nawooj on Tue, 29 Jul 2008 07:28:00 PST

Excerpt from the letter to Idomeneus

"On this truly happy day of my life, as I am at the point of death, I write this to you. The disease in my bladder and stomach are pursuing their course, lacking nothing of their natural severity: but...
Posted by Ensemble Mik Nawooj on Tue, 29 Jul 2008 07:16:00 PST

On Apeiron

Phys. iii. 4; 203 b 7. There is no beginning of the apeiron (infinite), for in that case it would have an end. But it is without beginning and indestructible, as being a sort of first principle; for i...
Posted by Ensemble Mik Nawooj on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 07:42:00 PST

Quote of the day

"... I do not have friends, that is why I must live alone, but I know from the deepest of my heart, that God is closer to me than to others. I come close to Him without fear, because I have always kno...
Posted by Ensemble Mik Nawooj on Tue, 15 Apr 2008 06:10:00 PST

Ideal of a wise man (sophos)

"He saw the wise man as entirely self-sufficient, needing no friends, quite independent of external possessions: no one could take from him his wisdom, and he was unaffected by the misfortunes that ot...
Posted by Ensemble Mik Nawooj on Mon, 07 Apr 2008 01:08:00 PST

excerpt from "De Caelo"

A magnitude if divisible one way is a line, if two ways a surface, and if three a body. Beyond these there is no other magnitude, because the three dimensions are all that there are, and that which is...
Posted by Ensemble Mik Nawooj on Fri, 04 Apr 2008 04:19:00 PST

Excerpt from the "Presocratics"

It was in Ionia that Presocratic thought began, and it is remarkable that almost all the thinkers who count as Presocratic were Ionians by birth or descent.-Edward Hussey
Posted by Ensemble Mik Nawooj on Mon, 31 Mar 2008 03:18:00 PST

Fragment 18

If one does not expect it, one will not find out the unexpected; it is not to be tracked down and no path leads to it.-Herakleitos (Heraclitus)
Posted by Ensemble Mik Nawooj on Mon, 31 Mar 2008 03:14:00 PST

Check out this event: Premiere on Friday!

Hosted By: Ann MossWhen: Friday Feb 08, 2008 at 8:00 PMWhere: SF Conservatory's Recital Hall50 Oak Street San Francisco, California|5 94102United StatesDescription:Ann Moss Click Here To View Event...
Posted by Ensemble Mik Nawooj on Mon, 04 Feb 2008 02:45:00 PST

Content of the review

Ensemble Mik NawoojHip-Hop Shifts from the Street to the SalonClassical hip-hop  yeah, you read that right. Classically-trained composer/pianist JooWan Kim heads up the Ensemble Mik Nawooj, which mus...
Posted by Ensemble Mik Nawooj on Mon, 04 Feb 2008 02:31:00 PST