SANJO

Sanjo is as unfamiliar to western audiences as the instruments on which it is played, but it never fails to charm those who hear it. Although based on early folk melodies and operating within a formal rhythmic structure, Sanjo performances are always entirely improvised.

The Biennial is delighted to welcome Min Young-Chi and Chang Jae Hyo, two of Korea's rising new exponents of this traditional music. Dressed in traditional costume, and interpreting the Sanjo rhythms on the ajaeng, a seven-stringed bowed zither and the taegum, a transverse bamboo flute, they are sure to delight everyone with their skillful mastery of these tantalizing rhythms.