Hip Hop Orchestra Experience featuring Ensemble Mik Nawooj

The Kohler Foundation presents, as part of the Distinguished Guest Series, Hip Hop Orchestra Experience featuring Ensemble Mik Nawooj and members of the Sheboygan Symphony Orchestra. Led by composer/pianist, JooWan Kim, Hip Hop Orchestra Ensemble Mik Nawooj (EMN) creates Metamusic by sampling principles of Hip-Hop and Classical. Executed with resident MCs, a lyric soprano, woodwinds, French horn, strings, piano, and drums, the music is rigorous, nuanced, and accessible. The result is seamless tête-à-tête with "textures swimming through the sound...like the world's fastest ping-pong game" (Pitchfork) and is considered the "cutting edge of hip-hop" (Huffington Post). Since the inception, JooWan has crystallized his ideas into Method Sampling, a principle of borrowing or sampling music from related as well as unrelated fields, then reframing them into one's own system. In 2010, JooWan Kim recruited Christopher Nicholas to push the project forward in a serious way. Since then, EMN attracted some of the most excellent classical musicians and MCs in the SF Bay Area while gaining national attention from outlets such as ESPN, Wall Street Journal, Huffington Post, NPR, Pitchfork, Upworthy, NowThis, and more.