Malmö Folk Festival: Park Jiha (KR) | INKONST
Schedule
Wed, 08 Apr, 2026 at 08:00 pm
UTC+02:00Location
Inkonst | Malmö, SN
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200/250:-20-22, on stage 20:30
Sound as light, time as texture. Park Jiha plays the present with ancient instruments — and makes it shimmer.
Working with the piri (double-reed bamboo flute), saenghwang (mouth organ), and yanggeum (hammered dulcimer), Park Jiha sculpts immersive, minimalist compositions that dissolve the boundaries between Korean traditional music, ambient, and neoclassical experimentation. Her solo works — Communion, Philos, and the luminous The Gleam — unfold like slow-breathing architecture: sparse, precise, and resonant with both history and futurity.
Jiha’s sound avoids ornament in favor of clarity. Repetition becomes meditation, melody emerges from shadow, and the instruments — some thousands of years old — pulse with an uncannily modern presence. Her live performances are both grounding and transportive, balancing intimacy with grandeur, drone with silence.
Internationally acclaimed (Pitchfork, BBC, Mojo, The Wire, The Guardian), Park Jiha is a singular figure in the global experimental landscape — not fusing East and West, but carving out a space where those labels lose meaning.
RIYL: Midori Takada, Jon Hassell, Steve Reich, Laraaji, Mary Lattimore, Korean neoclassical minimalism, Contemporary traditional, Instrumental ambient, Electroacoustic folk, Post-ritual composition, Nala Sinephro, Colin Stetson, Pharoah Sanders, John Surman, Oliver Coates
Concert included in the SS26 season pass! https://secure.tickster.com/5vmn7ynvgjj79gj
This concert is part of Malmö Folk Festival (8-12 April 2026)
Full program at www.malmofolkfestival.se.
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Where is it happening?
Inkonst, Bergsgatan 29, SE-214 22 Malmö, Sverige, Malmö, SwedenEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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