Join Beirut Art Center as it hosts Kyungso Park\u2019s solo series entitled, The Fragments And Their Undercurrents.<\/p>\n
This is her ongoing improvised solo project about the small fragments and the progressions which consist of our lives and surroundings. Based on Korean traditional aesthetics and with the gayageum\u2019s pure natural and voice-like sound, Park re-questions widely used musical gestures with contemporary thoughts and structures. <\/p>\n
Gayageum is a traditional Korean zither dating back to the 3rd Century. The silk strings give a pure natural and almost voice-like sound reflecting the Confucian ideals of the sound of the cosmos.<\/p>\n
Biography<\/b>
Kyungso Park is a renowned gayageum artist who expands the scope of gayageum music and challenges its established role as a traditional instrument. Starting her career as a professional musician in 2004, PARK participated in numerous projects of different nature; media art, contemporary visual art, experimental music, jazz, new music etc. She performed in the United States, Austria, the Netherlands, Norway, Ireland, China, Japan, New Zealand etc. and performed experimental, folk, and avant-garde improvised music, as well as Gayageum Sanjo, an improvised instrumental solo for gayageum, developed during the late Joseon era.<\/p>\n
Entrance:<\/b> 15,000 LL<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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