PAN project

Pan Project Ensemble 2nd album Borderless Flows was just nominated for a 2025 Grammy Award, First Round Ballot, in the category "Best Global Music Album"! Congratulations to everyone in the ensemble, Gamin (co-artistic director), Ned Rothenberg, Woonjung Sim, Saeyeon Jeong, Jessika Kenney, Afarin Nazarijou, Deepak Paramashivan, Jocelyn Clark! Please have a listen to the album, streaming on: Apple, Spotify, Amazon, Youtube or Bandcamp (https://panproject.bandcamp.com/album/borderless-flows). Please advocate on Pan Project's behalf to any NARAS voting members you might know!

https://panproject.wixsite.com/paradigmatic-revolut

“If knowledge is produced through collective definition, that is, it represents a transient human "consensus of the world," then it follows that not only new pieces of information, but new vantage points from which to observe existing ones can produce paradigmatic revolutions."
~ Janet Abu-Lughod, Before European Hegemony: The World System AD 1250-1350

Still buzzing from Thursday night’s powerful concert — Sonic Intercultural Evolutions at Horowitz Theatre, University of Alberta (April 3, 2025).
An unforgettable night of boundary-crossing sound, spirit, and connection.

The PAN Project Ensemble brought together a brilliant constellation of artists:
• gamin – saenghwang & piri
• Jeff Roberts – guqin & electronics
• Ned Rothenberg – shakuhachi
• Woonjung Sim – janggu & jing
• Deepak Paramashivan – sarangi
• Afarin Nazarijou – qanun

CAMPGround25 at CAMPGround - Festival Closing Concert
4216 North 31st Street, Tampa, Florida, United States, 33610

Saturday, March 15 at 4pm

신등등곡 New Deungdeungguk_Composed by Dawon Kim

piri, gamin
Korean percussion, Woonjung Sim
piano, Eunmi Ko

Gathered together: solo piri. Gong from afar spreads. The haunted people gather and a party begins. 모여들다: 적막이 감도는 피리 독주. 징의 소리는 서서히 더 먼 곳까지 퍼진다. 무언가에 홀린 듯 하나 둘 모여들기 시작하고, 한 무리의 난장이 시작된다.

Excited and confused: dancing, hoping, screaming, crouching… partying to death 신에 겨워 어쩔 줄을 모르고: 모여든 사람들은 각기 다른 모습으로 춤을 추고 펼쩍펄쩍 뛰어다닌다. 갑자기 움츠러들기도 하고 갑자기 소리를 지르는 등 마구 법석을 떨며 신명 나게 판을 벌인다.

Without dying: getting tired, emptiness/depression takes over. People stop talking to each other. Babbling fills the space. 죽지도 못하고는: 사람들은 지쳐 주저않았고, 풀리지 못한 허망함이 사함들이 덮친다. 다들 혼잣말에 잠기고, 엉켜버린 수많은 독백이 공간을 채운다.

A man is not a man: Dance to exhaustion though no energy left. Everyone dances till passing out. 사람이 사람이 아니라네: 그 누구에게도 남아있는 힘은 없다. 하지만 사람들은 무언가 홀린 듯 마지막 춤을 춘다. 누구 하나 남김없이 마지막 남은 모든 열기를 토해내다 이내 쓰러지고 만다.

It is said that in the year of the Japanese Invasion of Korea in 1592, people sang “Deungdeunggok,” and walked around pretending to be goblins and shamans, laughing and crying. Even now, about 500 years later, many people struggle to live while feeling helpless in many problems that cannot be changed by individual power alone. As a young man living in this chaotic world, I dedicate a “new Deungdeunggok”. Gathered together - Excited and confused - Without dying - A man is not a man.