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INTERMEDIA

Beauty Standards (7') 2023

Immersive audiovisual installation with custom smart mirrors (video score)

Co-creator: Seiyoung Jang

Grant: Cornell Council for the Arts

2024    Bibliowicz Family Gallery, Cornell University Watch

2023    Paine Hall, Harvard University Watch

Jaack (25') 2022

Puppets, custom smart mirrors, interactive visuals, electronic music, and string quartet (video score)

Commission: JACK Quartet (U.S.)

2023    Mannes School of Music, Manhattan, NY, U.S.  Watch

Pro5ling (8'30'') 2022 

An improviser on custom instrument with FX in front of a custom smart mirror with AI generated art

2022    Greg Stuart: Milstein Hall, Cornell University, U.S. Watch

Whose Turn Is It Anyway (25') 2021

An improv musical puppet theatre project for 6 people

2023    Harvard New Ensemble: Harvard University, U.S. (Excerpts)

2021    Stanford New Ensemble: Stanford University, U.S.

Peeter & the Woolf (3') 2020 

Chamber Orchestra & SMATB with puppet and video

2025    Puppet Power 2025

2020    orkest de ereprijs: 26th Young Composers Meeting, Apeldoorn, NL (Premiere) Watch

Speed Dating (10') 2019

Ambisonics and three-screen video with puppet

2025    Puppet Power 2025

2022    MANTIS Festival, University of Manchester, U.K.

2021    Audiovisual Frontiers, University of California, Riverside, U.S.

2020    Sonorities Festival Belfast, Belfast, NIR, U.K.

2019    Bing Concert Hall, Stanford University, U.S. (Premiere) Watch

Solo duet for Vocalist and Hand Puppet

2023    The Asian American Avant-Garde, Boston. MA, U.S.

2020    eavesdropping symposium, London, ENG, U.K.

2019    UCI Illuminations: Asian Immigration as Creative Muse, University of California, Irvine, U.S.

2019    Resonance Café, Montréal, Quebec, Canada.

2019    Vu Symposium at Park City Library, Park City, UT, U.S.

2019    Music & Erotics Conference at University of Pittsburgh, U.S. (Premiere) Watch

Different Mirrors (N/A) 2016

I. Oral Languages (Korean, English, Chinese, Cantonese, and Vietnamese)

I. Two string instruments, pre-recorded tracks, and visual arts 

2017    Winner, The American Prize in Opera, Theater, Film, Dance-- Student Division

2017    Finalist, ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Awards

Grant: Experimental Performance Lab Technology Support Grant

2016    Experimental Performance Lab (XMPL) at University of California, Irvine, U.S.

II. Writings (Chinese, Persian, Korean, Vietnamese, Hindi, and Japanese)

II. Two woodwind instruments from different cultures and visual arts

2017    Winner, The American Prize in Opera, Theater, Film, Dance-- Student Division

2017    Finalist, ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Awards

Grant: Experimental Performance Lab Technology Support Grant

2016    Experimental Performance Lab (xMPL) at University of California, Irvine, U.S. Watch

2016    Orange County Museum of Arts, Newport Beach, CA, U.S.

Cultural Spacesuit (8’) 2015

Quintet (bass clarinet, electric guitars, electric bass, harp, piano, and electronics) and a bilingual actor

2017    Winner, The American Prize in Opera, Theater, Film, Dance-- Student Division

2017    Finalist, ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Awards

Grant: Experimental Performance Lab Technology Support Grant

2016    Experimental Performance Lab (xMPL) at University of California, Irvine, U.S. (Premiere) Watch

ACOUSTIC MUSIC (ORCHESTRA, ENSEMBLE, SOLO)

Preconsciousness (10’) 2015

Septet (soprano, flute, tenor saxophone, cello, piano, harp, and prepared electric bass)

2017    Publisher: ink&coda issue 4.2 | Summer 2017

2015    Winifred Smith Hall at University of California, Irvine, U.S. Listen

2015    Motion Capture Studio at University of California, Irvine, U.S.

PUPPETRY

Jaack (25') 2022

Puppets, custom smart mirrors, interactive visuals, electronic music, and string quartet

Commission: JACK Quartet (U.S.)

2023    Mannes School of Music, Manhattan, NY, U.S.  Watch

Whose Turn Is It Anyway (25') 2021

An improv musical puppet theatre project for 6 people

2023    Harvard New Ensemble: Harvard University, U.S. (Excerpts)

2021    Stanford New Ensemble: Stanford University, U.S. (Premiere)

Peeter & the Woolf (3') 2020 

Chamber Orchestra & SMATB with puppet

2025    Puppet Power 2025

2020    orkest de ereprijs: 26th Young Composers Meeting, Apeldoorn, NL (Premiere) Watch

Speed Dating (10') 2019

Solo duet for Vocalist and Hand Puppet

2023    The Asian American Avant-Garde, Boston. MA, U.S.

2020    eavesdropping symposium, London, ENG, U.K.

2019    UCI Illuminations: Asian Immigration as Creative Muse, University of California, Irvine, U.S.

2019    Resonance Café, Montréal, Quebec, Canada.

2019    Vu Symposium at Park City Library, Park City, UT, U.S.

2019    Music & Erotics Conference at University of Pittsburgh, U.S. (Premiere) Watch

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