Kim Jin-hi
There, she practiced court orchestra music, learned both court and folk styles of singing (가곡 kagok, 판소리 pansori, 민요 folk song), drumming (장고 janggo) and bamboo flutes (단소 danso, 소금 sogeum), and selected the geomungo (거문고, a six feet long board zither with sixteen frets and six silk strings that are plucked with a thin bamboo stick) as her major instrument.While in California, she also studied the Chinese guqin (an ancient 7-stringed zither) and Indian bansuri (bamboo flute) from G. S. Sachdev, and began to investigate the possibility of cross-cultural creative music.During the 1980s, she regularly attended the New Music America festival, where she met many noted contemporary composers including John Cage, La Monte Young, Steve Reich, Philip Glass, Terry Riley, Lou Harrison, Laurie Anderson, Pauline Oliveros, Joan La Barbara, Morton Subotnick, Meredith Monk, Joseph Celli, Malcolm Goldstein, David Moss, Elliott Sharp, John Zorn and many others.Plunged into the American avant-garde music scene, she was invited to the Composer-to-Composer festival directed by Charles Amirkhanian in Telluride, Colorado, in 1989 and joined the one-week residency with John Cage and selected leading composers.[7] With the Toronto instrument builder Joseph Yanuziello in 1998 Kim co-designed[8] and now plays the electric komungo, for which she has created numerous interactive pieces with a MIDI computer system using MAX/MSP programmed by Alex Noyes.[26] Kim has created hour-long cross-cultural multimedia works that led to a new direction incorporating Asian cultural heritage interfaced with emerging Western interactive technology.Since then, she has improvised at many international festivals with Elliott Sharp,[36] Bill Frisell,[37] Derek Bailey, Hans Reichel, Eugene Chadbourne, James Newton, Evan Parker, Joseph Celli,[38] Malcolm Goldstein, Oliver Lake, Billy Bang, William Parker, Leroy Jenkins, Peter Kowald, Reggie Workman, Mark Dresser,[39] Joëlle Léandre, Jane Ira Bloom, Rüdiger Carl, Gerry Hemingway,[40] and many other prominent figures in new music and avant-garde jazz.[41] For her own compositions and for collective creativity, she has improvised with traditional master artists from Asia and Africa including Kongar-Ol Ondar,[42] Min Xiao-Fen,[43] Wu Man,[44] Samir Chatterjee,[45] Mayumi Miyata,[46] Vikku Vinayakram, Abraham Adzenyah, and Mor Thiam.
Kim Jin-heeKorean nameHangulRevised RomanizationMcCune–ReischauerKoreankomungogeomungocontemporary classical musiccross-culturalavant-gardefree improvisationGuggenheimMIDI computer systemAmerican Composers OrchestraKronos QuartetTan Dun'sLincoln CenterCarnegie HallKennedy CenterWashington, D.C.Metropolitan Museum of ArtAsia SocietyHaus der Kulturen der WeltRoyal Festival HallLondonVenice BiennaleMoers FestivalGermanyEuropeCanadaLatin AmericaSouth AmericaRussiaNew ZealandAustraliaIncheonKorean musicpansorijanggozitherConfucianethnomusicologistsSeoul National UniversityKBS-TV national broadcastingSan Francisco Conservatory of MusicJohn AdamsMills CollegeOakland, CaliforniaLou HarrisonTerry RileyDavid RosenboomLarry PolanskybansuriG. S. SachdevNew Music AmericaJohn CageLa Monte YoungSteve ReichPhilip GlassLaurie AndersonPauline OliverosJoan La BarbaraMorton SubotnickMeredith MonkJoseph CelliMalcolm GoldsteinDavid MossElliott SharpJohn ZornCharles AmirkhanianTelluride, ColoradoNew York CityConnecticutWesleyan Universitydancer's barrel drum setMAX/MSPnotationvibratopitch bendsdaegumEnglish hornbaritoneAlice Tully Hall, Lincoln CenterChamber Music Society of Lincoln CenterRichard CarrickThe KitchenBoston Modern Orchestra ProjectGil RoseGerry HemingwayNew Haven Symphony OrchestraJung-Ho PakXenakis EnsembleNetherlandsEmpire State Youth OrchestraStanford SymphonyKBS SymphonyZeitgeistBerlinKim PhucVietnam WarFairfield UniversityKorean Demilitarized ZoneMarco WermanDavid ChungUniversity of MichiganKazakhstanHarvard UniversityPrinceton UniversitySackler GallerySãn Paulo International Film FestivalToronto Reel Asian International Film FestivalVancouver Asian Film FestivalBenton C BainbridgeHarvestworks Digital Media Arts CenterDominican RepublicExpo ZaragozaDetroit Institute of ArtNew Haven, Conn.IndonesiaCornell UniversityYale UniversityStanford Pacific-Asia Music FestivalMichigan Universitymeditative practicekathak