The extended techniques of "Dan Bau" by Tam Thi Pham

The extended techniques of Dan Bau, deep listening and improvisation

Date: 15.12.2025
Time: 13:00
Location: Recital room, 14th floor, College of Music BSRU

Special guest: Mahakit Mahaniranon

Hosted by
- Asst. Prof. Phakphoom Tiavongsuvan
- Parames Boonroungkaw


Tam Thi Pham will give a presentation on the extended techniques of Dan Bau, which she discovered. It is a part of her own research and praticing in improvisation and composition.
She will share her method to work on it and her experience in how she listens to the sound/music while playing the improvisation and in composition work.

There will be Q&A session with the audience.

- FREE ADMISSION -
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Tam Thi Pham (b. 1990) is a Vietnamese multimedia composer, improviser, and performer based in Hamburg, Germany. By merging technology and tradition, poetics and politics, and the sonic and visual realms, Pham creates an integrated mode of expression where music and performance are indivisible parts.

Pham has delved into the unique sounds and extended techniques of the dan bau, a traditional Vietnamese instrument, incorporating them into free improvisation and composition. Since 2023, She has taught a dan bau at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg. Her artistic journey is a quest to explore individuality while seeking connection with the broader social environment.

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