Hey String | K-MUSIC SPECIALS
Hey String | K-MUSIC SPECIALS
Fri 06 November 2020
Stream time / 7:00pm
Friday 6 November | YouTube
To great acclaim, Hey String performed alongside Kyungso Park’s SB Circle at K-Music last year. Now they return with a full-length performance.
Gayageum trio Hey String push beyond the limitations of traditional performance in a full force of interplaying melodies and rhythms to create enthralling soundscapes. With their three Korean zither-like 12 stringed instruments, they show a deep understanding of traditional Korean music, but don’t let it box them in as they mix with electronics and explore unique compositions, without limits. The band includes Jihyo Kim (gayageum, glass Harp, kalimba), Jihyun Park (gayageum, glockenspiel, vocals) and Jihyun Oh (gayageum, glockenspiel, percussion)
This concert is co-produced by the K-Music Festival and the Seoul Namsan Gukakdang, the organiser of the competition programme ‘Young Korean Music Audition Danjang’ that originally discovered Hey String.
‘Hey String are part of a revolution among Korean traditional players that would have seemed highly unlikely even a decade ago. Players of those instruments used to stay within their own refined world of museum culture, whereas now musicians like Jihyun Park take it as given that there are no limits to what they can play’
(The Wire)
‘Hey String follow a traditional playing style but avoid sticking to the traditional melodies, through their work they play music that crosses boundaries’
(A Ram Lee, Daegeum - Music Director of Yeowoorak Festival, National Theatre of Korea)
