She has performed throughout the US, Europe, Canada, South America, Asia, Australia, New Zealand and Russia as both a soloist and with leading improvisers such as James Newton, Derek Bailey, William Parker, Oliver Lake, Evan Parker, Peter Kowald and Joseph Celli among others. Jin Hi Kim has conscientiously pursed working with musicians from various ethnic perspectives. In her Dragon Bond Rite , a mask dance theater, she collaborates with artists from Korea, Japan, India and Indonesia, Tuva and America. Dragon Bond Rite features Asian traditional drummers, vocalists and mask dancers in a complex overlay of contrast and similarities from these various cultures. Using stick and fingers, she sculpted myriad bouncing, glissing, galloping attacks to produce small waves of melody that were cumulative in their power.
Cultural currents cross with intentions - good or otherwise.
She has received awards and fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation, Meet the Composer's Reader's Digest Commissioning Program, Mary Flagler Cary Trust, National Endowment for the Arts, Asian Cultural Council and the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center. Currently she is creating Touching the Moons, an international collaboration between Korean, Indian and US artists. She is a founding member of the No World Improvisations ensemble and performs regularly with this ensemble. If you would like to make or read comments about oo discs artists, please visit The Forum .