Hunjoo Jung is a German based South Korean composer of acoustic, electronic and electroacoustic concert music as well as intermedia art. Since 2020, he has been living in Germany as a freelancer composer.
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In his art, he has been addressing various notions of musical contents in order to challenge the misconceptions around Asian culture as a valid sonic framework in the contemporary music field, while exploring aesthetic interests at the fringes of Korean and Western Art music cultures.
In recent years, besides focusing on acoustic music, Jung has also been exploring multi-complex structural ways in which interactive visual, live video and video mapping, lighting & laser, sensor, actions and/or sculptural forms of objects can be used in a wide range of combination with acoustic, electroacoustic and electronic music in spatialization.
Furthermore, he explores a world of extended techniques that deconstruct methodological, technological deconstructing methodological, technological practices and commercial sounds, reinforcing the role of the performer’s body and traditional musical meaning and allow sounds to be understood as a non-referential, emergent act of mutual sounding, dramatically refracted and re-imagined through real-time audio processing.
Hunjoo Jung is the recipient of several scholarships from various foundations such as Künstlerhof Schreyahn, Schloss Wiepersdorf, Ernst von Simens Musik Stiftung, Goethe Institute, Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur, Musikfond e.V., Neustart Kultur, University of California San Diego, Department of Music, New England Conservatory of Music, IDEAS(International Digital Exploration of Arts+Science) as well as residence at Schloss Solitude, Avaloch Farm Institute, Kud Medeza and Leitung Künstlerhäuser Worpswede among others. In 2019, Jung won the DYCE Project Competition (Italy) and The Frank Robert Abell Young Composer for New Chamber (USA). He was awarded Georges Aperghis Commission Award in 2018.
His most recent works will be/have been commissioned by Distractfold, Musikfond e.V., Neustart Kultur, Musik 21 Niedersachsen, Handwerk and Interstring Project among others. Besides, Jung’s music will/has been performed by renowned ensembles such as Ensemble Talea, Recherche, KNM Berlin, Curious chamber players, Mimitabu, Ensemble Ensemble S201, Multilaterale, Divertimento and Soloists such as Taylor J. Borden from Mivos Quartet, Kevin Toksöz Fairbairn and Alexander Schimpf and many more. His music has been premiered/performed in various festivals include TIME SPANS, Harvard Group New Musik Series, Klang, Kontakte’19, Kalv, Sound of Stockholm, IGNM, Tzlil Meudcan, KNM Contemporaries, Musik Futures, Tongyeong International Music Festival, aNother Festival, Barcelona Modern Music_Sampler Series, DIGITAL:Analog, Unerhörte Musik, No Hay Banda, Crossroads International Music Festival, Levande Musik, Festival Klub Katarkt, MA/IN Intermedia Festival among others.
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Hunjoo Jung 