The music here has a rare elegance, its evolution taking place in near-silence.
Beauty pervades immensity and light years.
Unorthodox music and calligraphy come together to create a highly charged and at times explosive performance. Jin Hi Kim create cutting edge, improvised music for Korean traditional and modified instruments and Western instruments alongside calligraphy performance inspired by Asian culture and the Zen tradition. Ha to create large-scale abstract ink works in the moment, drawing from an inner meditative space and the interactive sonic dialogue of the group, who in turn interpret a kind of musical a score based on Gong's visual images and his act of creation. Peebles distills this studio performance into three distinct vignettes which capture the intense exchanges of the group, up-close textures of ink and brush in motion and their transformation into three completed art works. Recorded at The Music Gallery, December 16, 1997.