We finished up our workshops at the Royal University of Fine Arts and presented a performance showcasing our activities there as well as premiering Bosba Panh’s piece in Phnom Penh. It was such a fun experience for us!

A final bit of “rehearsing”

Before the performance, we met with the students in the morning to “rehearse” a bit. The idea was to show a live performance of our workshops that we had been doing. We asked for three volunteers to practice leading the group in creating a repetitive rhythmic and melodic texture, made up on the spot!

The performance!

We started by describing our project, what we did in our workshops, and each of us introduced ourselves! We invited the students on stage and started the group improvisation/composition/conducting activity that we’ve been doing. We created some really cool sounds!

Then, we premiered the piece which was composed by the students in the workshops. Each student wrote one measure! The idea was that contemporary music can be many different things and it’s even possible to compose as a group to create one new piece. It would be interesting to perform this in Finland and bring back some of the unique ideas from the students at RUFA!

Finally! We explained a bit about Bosba Panh’s piece and we performed the new work for the second time in Cambodia. It was so special to perform at RUFA!

We’ll miss you all!!

Working with the students at RUFA has been such a great experience. The students have so much talent, curiosity, and interesting ideas! We hope to keep in touch and return again sometime to exchange more ideas about music! Special thanks to RUFA and Cambodian Living Arts for facilitating the workshops and performance.

AEKI ensemble