Young-Gyu Jang (Music Director, Composer)
Young-Hoon Oh (Sound Engineer)
Won-II Na (PinlKorean cylindrical oboe with bamboo body])
Ji-Yeon Koh (Gayageum[Korean long zither with movable bridges])
Joon-il Choi (Janggu[Korean hourglass-shaped double-headed drum])

Be-Being is a project group established by seven musicians in Korea in 2007, who have collaborated for dozen years in various genres including popular music(Uhuhboo Project), modern dance(Eun-Mi Ahn's Modern Dance), Korean traditional music(Gayageum Ensamble Sagye), and film score(Young-Gyu Jang's Film Music).

The members of Be-Being work in diverse fields of music: Young-Gyu Jang is a famous composer across experimental and popular arts; Won-II Na, Ji-Yeon Koh, and Joon-il Choi are respected musicians in Korean traditional music scene; and Young-Hoon Oh is a prestigious sound engineer in Korea.

They come together under the name of Be-Being in order to experiment with Korean traditional music and visual arts in perspective of contemporary art and culture. Selectively developing and integrating Korean traditional music and other musical legacies, Be-Being avoids conventional musical practices and creates a new form of music, which is organized with dance, video, and drama into a synthetic and interdisciplinary art form, a sort of total art based on Korean traditional music and visual arts.

The first fruit of their collaboration is the Buddhist music project Li and Sa, staged in Seoul in October 2008, which is a splendid mixture of Korean traditional and other musical performance, recorded and computer processed sounds, Buddhist chant and dance, and video projection, under the auspices of Jeong Gak, Buddhist priest, as adviser and performer.

The title Li and Sa refers to Do-Li (reason) and Sa-Sang (phenomenon) which are two different but complementary approaches of Buddhist philosophy. Under the tradition of Buddhism, which is a religion of enlightenment to elucidate the truth.

Li represents an intellectual way to find the purpose of consciousness, and Sa represents an affectionate way to have sympathy for everything. The latter tenderly embraces the former so as to achieve a harmony between SUbjectivity and objectivity. The dual principle is also applied to Buddhist rituals and musical practices. The Buddhist music project Li and Sa is an attempt to understand the philosophy embodied in the Buddhist art and to reinterpret the traditional Buddhist music and dance from perspective of contemporary art. The orchestration is mainly based on the traditional Korean instruments including Gayageum, Haegum, Piri, Janggu, Buk, and Pansori, all of which are played by the members of Be¬Being, and supplemented with other various musical instruments if needed in order to restore the traditional Buddhist music and to meet the musical requirements in general. In addition to music and dance, a video work is projected on the stage to show a contemporary reinterpretation of visual images of Buddhist culture.