Abstract
Pansori is a traditional Korean genre of musical storytelling, sometimes referred to as the Korean opera, performed by a singer, sorikkun and accompanied by a drummer, gosu. SIM: The Blind is based on one of the five surviving pansori songs, Simcheongga. Exploring the rhythm of the story rooted in shamanistic rites, we follow the life of Sim Hakgyu – a blind master of swords who roams through a post-apocalyptic world, contaminated with blinding dust, using his sensitive hearing to get a sense of direction. The viewer experiences their reality in the same way, through sound waves bouncing off shapes. The world built with sounds appears to us as a volumetric cloud of colorful points hanging in the air, creating the afterimages of the sung story.
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