For travellers who arrived through Korean music and want to hear where it came from. The instruments underneath the modern sound are a thousand years old, and hearing one played in a quiet room reorganises how the rest of it sounds.
And for anyone who is simply worn out by noise. This journey treats hearing as the sense to be looked after rather than filled, and most of it is spent in low light with very little happening.
The geomungo is a six string zither struck with a short length of bamboo, and its register sits low enough that you feel it in the chest before you name it as music. The gayageum is plucked, higher, closer to breath.
Korean court music was written to be played slowly, at a tempo tied to the breathing of the listener, and the gaps between notes are not pauses but material. Sessions are built around that: breath work, a long stretch in the dark, and then sound played around you while you lie still.
Most people find the first ten minutes uncomfortable and the next forty restorative. That is worth knowing before you begin.
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