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TonesComposer Kim's bi-cultural chamber music features American contemporary virtuosi with Korean traditional musicians like National Living Treasure Jae-Guk Chung. Performers include flutist Robert Dick, vocalist Thomas Buckner, oboist Joseph Celli, and the Sirius String Quartet. "This is new music/world music at its finest, beyond political correctness, into the realm of the sublime, where words and cultural postures fall away." The Los Angeles Times
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KomunguitarKim plays the komungo, a traditional Korean six-string zither similar to the Japanese koto. "She [Kim] joins forces with some of the music scene's most singular guitarists for a festival of clever, cruel and witty duets: Elliott Sharp's monster overtones, Derek Bailey's caustic minimalism, Henry Kaiser's brooding electric, Eugene Chadbourne's bluegrass-for-moderns banjo, and David First's whining, whiny slide (matched by her electric komungo). There are also two inspired solo improvs for solo komungo that exhibit Jin Hi Kim's amazing depth and range." CMJ New Music Report
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Around the WorldJin Hi Kim with Adam Plack, Mor Thiam, Rahul Sariputura and Hideaki Kuribayashi. Korean Music Source. (Imported, 1994)
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Jin Hi Kim with Elliott Sharp and Henry Kaiser. Music based on shape, texture and gesture rather than tone, harmony or rhythm, with Kim playing komungo, a korean six-stringed zither, and Sharp on guitars, sax, bass and computer sampling. Out of print import!
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World ImprovisationsWith Joseph Celli, double reeds, Yamaha WX-7, and Jin Hi Kim, komungo, chongo, midi-komungo. A compact disc featuring 55 minutes of duo and solo improvisations by two virtuosic improvisors. Korean/American Jin Hi Kim has performed extensively with Elliot Sharp, Derek Biley, James Newton, Henry Kaiser and others where she has pioneered the fusion of the traditional Korean instruments, komugo (lap zither) and chongo (2 headed drum), as well as created the midi-komungo heard on this CD for the first time in recording. Joseph Celli performs on reeds, oboe and English horn (with and without reeds), the Indian double reed, Mukha Beena, and the Yamaha WX-7 midi breath controller. Celli explores the range of acoustic possibilities of these instruments as he develops a totally new and personal sound syntax.
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World (Trio) ImprovisationsJoseph Celli and Jin Hi Kim in a series of trio improvisations that include West African drummer Mor Thiam, Australian didjeridu player Adam Plack, vocalist Shelley Hirsch, violinist Malcolm Goldstein and electronic virtuoso Alvin Curran. Celli performs on reeds, oboe, English horn, and WX-7 midi breath controller. Jin Hi Kim performs on komungo, electric komungo and changgo drum. College Music Journal wrote, "The beauty of this work is that it's always new, always unique and never sends you home humming a tune. Instead, it leaves you full of ideas of your own and a sense that you have been exploring new cerebral turf."
Layers and layers and layers of wailing saxes (Ulrich Krieger), smearing violins (Malcolm Goldstein), Peruvian instrumentalists and twanging komungo (Jin Hi Kim) in Celli's post-minimal music for video. Over 70 minutes of pulsating sounds, including Andes for 7 Peruvian musicians and a mountain of televisions.
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Permutations on The Aerial: Issue #2 Collection also includes works by Bob Davis and Jon Ruskin, David Dunn, Jeff Greinke, Christopher Shultis, Chris Cochrane, Sue Ann Harkey, Annea Lockwood, Trans Duo and Hildegarde Westerkamp.
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Kim uses an electronic version of the Korean drum to "trigger a modernist melange of instrument, orchestra and sound effects samples." Collection also includes new audio works by Kato Hideki, Pauline Oliveros and Fanni Green, Brenda Hutchinson, Ken Montgomery, Takehisa Kosugi, Ben Neill and Charlie Ahearn.
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A composer and Korean komungo virtuoso, Kim is a rarity: a musician fully trained in the complexities of Korean traditional music who has been able to integrate her Asain skill and sensibilities with the demands of the Western avant-garde. After she completed her study of Korean traditional music at National High School of Traditional Music and Seoul National University, she came to America for further study and received an M.F.A. degree in electronic music/composition at Mills college. Her music retains the timbral and microtonal subtleties of her Korean heritage while incorporating the similar concerns of experimental music. Whether she is working with electronics or with western or Korean instruments, she strikes a balance of delicacy and power that is unique and evocative. Increasingly well-regarded on the international new music circuit, her music has been performed worldwide, most prominently by Kronos Quartet and by leading chamber music ensembles such as Relache, the Fidelio Trio, San Francisco Contemporary Music Players and the California E.A.R. Unit, as well as by outstanding solo performers.
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