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| | Jin Hi Kim, Nonpop New Music Composer |
 | | Kim began her study of traditional Korean music at the age of 13, and she believes there is now a convergence in different eras and that the centuries-old Korean court music philosophy, based on cosmic principles, and Western concepts, such as atomic theory, fractal geometry and chaos aesthetics, co-exist in living tones. |
 | | Kim's komungo trio with jazz musicians William Parker (bass) and Oliver Lake (saxophone), founded in 1995 for Kim's Living Tones' Concert tour in Los Angeles and New York, which was sponsored by the Korea Society. |
 | | Kim explains that "the conceptual basis for living tones, which is the essential element in Korean traditional music, is that each tone is alive, embodying its own individual shape, sound, texture, vibrato, glissando, expressive nuances, and dynamics. |
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