Self-built Instrument

Sound Performance, 20min

This instrument is focused on sound performance with an experimental instrument which is composed of strings and metallic sound box, producing overtones, harmonics and feedback. It is capable to play with different sound colours and all of factors triggers each others sound. It is not a point to play a specific tone or to make a musical harmony, because the instrument is not able to perfectly control. Playing this Instrument is a challenge to your capacity, such as gestures and sonic phenomenon following sense and space. The artist composed a piece and use few repertoire partly, however, mostly it is interesting to find what kind of sound comes to nest in mesh. The Artist tried to get over typical aesthetics of classical music, such as using precise pitches, melodies, and read scores. Instead of that, her approach towards to discover unusual sound elements which are considered as mistake in traditional way. And play with them, for instance, strings without tuning, hitting a stuffs, unorganized pitch, also so-called clicker which happens unskilled.

It is musically composed of circulation of swerving sound and embrace internal and external sound in space. The coupling of acoustic and electronic resonances in a performable instrument that has an almost sculpture like quality is intriguing. The sounds range from complex and exquisite to banal and cliché, and therefore, keep the interest going.

New Interface for Musical Expression (NIME) Conference at Ufrgs, Porto Alregre, 2019
Full version of Sound Performance at Hobbykeller Festival #1, 2023
Documentation by Duhyoung Kim, 2023
Timeline 36:00-47:00 / SMC conference at KTH Stockholm 2023
KHM Rundgang at Klanglabor, Cologne 2017
Kölner Museumsnacht at Glasmoog, KHM 2017

2023 Hobbykeller Festival #1, Kunst und Schmitz, Cologne 2023

2023 SMC conference, KMH Royal College of Music, Stockholm 2023
2022 Anachronism, MS Stubnitz in Hamburg and Schwankhalle in Bremen
2020 Athens Digital Art Festival, Athen (online)
2020 Feminaler der Musik, ZKM Karlsruhe (online)
2019 NIME conference 2019, Porto Alegre

2018 Folge der Ton #1, Linz
2017 Instrument make Play, Worm, Rotterdam
2017 Performancenacht, Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal
2017 Kölner Museumsnacht, Glasmoog KHM, Cologne
2017 Bathycapth, trinitatis Church, Cologne
2017 Performance Garten, neues Kunstforum, Cologne

2017 Arts Birthday, Kulturbunker Mülheim, Cologne