Jeonghyeon Joo – San Diego Story

Music from Korea with Love–the NWEAMO Festival Opens Virtually in Your Living Room

By Ken Herman | May 17, 2020 |

San Diego’s annual New West Evolving Arts and Music Organism–also know as the NWEAMO Festival–opened Saturday, May 16, with a program streamed live on YouTube from Seoul, Korea.

NWEAMO Festival Brings Exciting Korean Ensemble PHASE to San Diego

By Ken Herman | April 27, 2019 |

“Expect the unexpected” could easily be the slogan of Joseph Waters’ annual NWEAMO Festival. Friday’s opening concert of the 2019 festival presented ensemble PHASE, a quintet of Korean musicians performing on traditional Korean instruments that filled San Diego State University’s Smith Recital Hall with bright, piquant, exotic sounds and modalities.

Adventurous NWEAMO 2018 Festival Opens at San Diego State University

By Ken Herman | April 28, 2018 |

Curated by New West Electro-Acoustic Music Organization founder Joseph Waters, the 2018 NWEAMO Festival’s opening concert on April 27, 2018, offered diverse sonic visions of seven composers working in various ways with computer generated sound.