Practice of Harmony

“Harmony” is the fundamental discipline in music that studies the relationships and interactions among tones sounded simultaneously. At the same time, “harmony” signifies concord and the state of being together. The work Practice of Harmony overlays these two meanings. Drawing upon the long-standing human pursuit of harmonic principles and organic connectedness, it seeks to discover new possibilities for artistic communication within today’s fragmented human relationships.

While digital technologies and social media have increased the convenience of communication, they have also deepened polarization. Many individuals continue to voice feelings of isolation and loneliness, while conflicts and wars persist across the globe. Against this backdrop, Jaehoon Kim and his collaborators return to the most elemental principles of harmony, experimenting with how we might resonate together and explore ways of coexistence.

This performance is not merely an exercise in combining tones; it is an inquiry into how, in contemporary society, we might become one another’s harmony.