Asian Sound Revolution Workshop and Performance at Yale

November 2, 2013

Traditional and contemporary musical traditions of Korea and China were the focus of a workshop and performance that took place at Henry R. Luce Hall on Saturday, November 2, 2013.  Sponsored by the Council on East Asian Studies at Yale University, the two-part, public event was conducted by Asian Sound Revolution, featuring internationally acclaimed musicians and composers Jin Hi Kim and Min Xiao-Fen.  The workshop provided a brief introduction to Chinese instruments imported to Korea, Korean court music, and old and new music for the Chinese pipa and Korean komungo.  The komungo is a six-stringed zither indigenous to Korea that originated in the fourth century. The pipa — sometimes called the Chinese lute — is a plucked string instrument with a pear-shaped wooden body that has been played for nearly 2,000 years in China.