From left, sound artist Remi Klemensiewicz, haegeum player Kim Ye-ji and viola d’amore player Olivier Marin attend a roundtable interview for the joint sonic theater project "Wind Alone, Sand Alone — Make No Sound," in Seoul, Monday. Courtesy of Sejong Center for Performing Arts
Sejong Center for the Performing Arts will open its contemporary “Sync Next 26” season with an ambitious Franco-Korean sonic theater project that blurs the boundaries between music, language and everyday sound.
Titled “Wind Alone, Sand Alone — Make No Sound,” the world premiere brings together three artists from Korea and three from France who treat sound not as a finished product but as a living process shaped by encounters and relationships. The performance is part of celebrations in Korea and France for the 140th anniversary of diplomatic ties.
Haegeum performer Kim Ye-ji, geomungo player Sim Eun-yong and jeongga singer Cho Yoon-young, sound artist Remi Klemensiewicz, viola d’amore player Olivier Marin and vocalist Christian Ploix will share the Sejong S Theater stage from July 3 to 5, before touring France and the United Kingdom in October.
Jeongga is a genre of Korean vocal music that developed in aristocratic and court circles that is characterized by slow tempos, subtle ornamentation and a close relationship with poetic texts. The haegeum is a traditional two-stringed bowed instrument, while geomungo is a six-stringed zither.
