 Jin Hi Kim and Gerry Hemingway  present Digital Buddha : multimedia presentation.
It's a convergence of sounds from ancient to modern and presented with a mesmerizing video art, leading the audience to a meditative experience that deepens the contemplation of self and the universe.
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Digital Buddha has been presented at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Korea Festival, Festival Dos Abrazos (Spain), Festival Salihara (Indonesia), and Detroit Institute of Arts.
Jin Hi Kim is known for introducing komungo to American contemporary music scene and for extensive solo performances on the world’s only electric komungo with live interactive MIDI computer system in her large-scale multimedia performance pieces.
Kim’s compositions have been commissioned by Kronos Quartet, American Composers Orchestra, Tan Dun's New Generation of East program for Chamber Music Society for the Lincoln Center, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, Meet The Composer US Commission, National Endowment for the Arts Commission, The Kitchen, The Japan Society (New York) and many others.
Kim won the Wolff Ebermann Prize at the International Theater Institute (Germany), and received Artist Award from the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts. She was awarded Fulbright Specialist Program 2017 to Vietnam, 2015 Composers Now Creative Residencies at the Pocantico Center of Rockefeller Brothers Fund, 2014 Asian Cultural Council Fellowship to Indonesia, 2013 McKnight Visiting Composer with the American Composers Forum, and Music Alive Composer in Residency with New Haven Symphony.
Kim was featured on PRI's The World and Voice of America in recognition of her works that lead to a new direction incorporating a profound Korean cultural heritage with a balance of Eastern and Western aesthetics. In 2005 Kim was featured on BBC The World/Global Hit radio program for her One Sky for String Chamber Orchestra and Electric Komungo, which was commissioned by the Great Mountain Music Festival for the 50th anniversary of Korean War memorial event at DMZ between North and South Korea and was broadcast on KBS-TV. Recent years Jin Hi Kim premiered new works, which are responses to two wars involving the American military in Asia: One Sky II (2018) for Orchestra dedicated to the reunification of Korea, performed by Weselyan University Orchestra: and a choral piece, Child of War (2014), dedicated to Kim Phuc who is renown for "the girl in the picture" during the Vietnam War, performed by The Mendelssohn Chorus of Connecticut.Â
Kim’s autobiography Komungo Tango, a 25 years journey of creative collaborations with master musicians in the USA and around the world, was published in Seoul, Korea. A retrospective interview about Kim's major works was recorded and archived in Oral History of American Music at Yale University Library. Interview about her electric komungo was featured on MBC-TV in conjunction with Korean Traditional Craft Exhibition 2007 at United Nation. In 2001 Korean National Broadcasting System (KBS-TV) produced an hour documentary film on Kim's musical contribution.Â
Gerry Hemingway has been at the forefront of creative music for four decades. He was born in 1955 in New Haven, Conn., to a family with musical interests. He became interested in drums around the age of ten and by the age of seventeen was working as a professional musician primarily in the jazz and bebop traditions. In the 1970's, New Haven was home for a number of interesting musicians. This was where Gerry met and first played with Anthony Davis, Leo Smith, George Lewis and Anthony Braxton. In the late 1970's, Hemingway, trombonist Ray Anderson, and bassist Mark Helias formed a collective trio which they eventually named BassDrumBone. The trio was awarded a grant from Chamber Music America on the occasion of their 30th anniversary in 2007 to compose a new set of works reflecting their then 30 year collaboration. These compositions appear on a release on the Clean Feed label entitled the "The Other Parade".
He joined and remained a member of the Anthony Braxton quartet from 1983 - 1994 and began performing with the Reggie Workman Ensemble in the eighties. Hemingway also performed in duet with pianist Cecil Taylor in May of 1999 on the invitation of De Singel in Antwerp, Belgium.
A recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, Hemingway is a composer and improvisor and a leader of several long standing quintets and quartets of international acclaim. In addition to fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation on the Arts, he has also received four commissions through the Parabola Arts Foundation with funding from the New York State Council on the Arts and in 1993, he premiered a commission from the Kansas City Symphony with funding from Meet the Composer for a concerto for percussionist and orchestra entitled "Terrains".
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His work as a composer and percussionist includes recordings, collaborations and performances with Derek Bailey, Leo Smith, Oliver Lake, Kenny Wheeler, Frank Gratkowski, George Lewis, John Cale and Hank Roberts among many others. Collaborative trios include the GRH trio with German pianist Georg Graewe and the Dutch cellist Ernst Reijseger, the WHO trio with Swiss pianist Michel Wintsch and bassist Baenz Oester, and Brew with Reggie Workman and Miya Masaoka.
Since the fall of 2009 Mr. Hemingway has joined the faculty of the Hochshule Luzern in Switzerland where he resides
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