Digital Premiere—Digital Buddha | MetLiveArts

This MetLiveArts Digital Premiere features a multimedia performance by Jin Hi Kim (komungo) and Gerry Hemingway (percussion) and was originally presented as a part of The Met’s 2014 Lunar New Year celebration. Kim has been widely praised as an innovative virtuoso of the komungo, a fourth-century Korean zither that she likens to a “gigantic guitar.” She also creates cross-cultural compositions that the Los Angeles Times has described as “new music/world music at its finest, beyond political correctness, into the realm of the sublime, where words and cultural postures fall away.” “Cosmic music meditation, as if … consciousness was carried into outer space.” —Tempo (Jakarta) This performance was originally presented in conjunction with “Silla: Korea’s Golden Kingdom.“ The exhibition and related education programs were made possible by Samsung. Additional support was provided by the Korea Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. The exhibition was organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Na