A VISUALIZATION of the sun was projected on a large screen. Red and green lights swirled around it. Then a spiraling tendril was created that climbed out of the center of the sun shaped like white smoke from burning incense. Writing then appeared, “Brings Me of Understanding Myself.”

In front of that screen, Jin Hi Kim, a woman 53 years of age, sat cross-legged on a small stage. A komungo, a six-stringed Korean sitar of about 1.5 meters, was