To hear on Sunday 1 and 8 May 2011,
2 pm - 9 pm:
Welcome To Hasla
(2007)
by Suk-Jun Kim
With presentation of the book/DVD "HASLA"
(2010, Editor: Berliner Künstlerprogramm des DAAD)
Suk-Jun Kim on "Welcome To Hasla" [11 min.]:
Welcome to Hasla! A faraway land on which you feel as strange as familiar. A place to which you have never traveled, yet that resembles eerily every town you have visited before. A town that as soon as you arrive, you realize that you have already left.
Welcome To Hasla is a 5-channel electroacoustic music that is loosely based on Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities. I am imagining a writer, who has just been to a city of which name is very slippery to remember. In the middle of a night, he wakes up from a strange dream. Trying to write about the city he has been to and dreamed about, a name suddenly occurs to him: Hasla! But, at the same time, he is no longer sure whether he actually made the travel or his dream has finally caught him for good!
Welcome To Hasla was commissioned by IMEB, Bourges, France, and composed at IMEB and VICC, Sweden.
Suk-Jun Kim
A Korean Composer and sound artist, Suk-Jun Kim’s music focuses mainly on the sense of places that are fantastic, imaginary, magical, and realistic, where listeners can visit, stop by, and dwell on. His music has received a number of international awards.
Kim has recently showcased his four sound installations for his first solo show at the daadgalerie, Berlin, and a public sound installation at the Schlossplatz in Berlin-Mitte in 2009 and 2010.
Suk-Jun Kim studied theology (BA) in S. Korea, recording engineering at OIART, Canada, music technology (M.Mus) at Northwestern University, computer music at CCMIX in France, and composition (Ph.D.) at the University of Florida in the USA. In 2009, Kim was invited to Berlin by the Aritists-in-Berlin programme of DAAD for one year, and now lives in Aberdeen as a Leverhulme visiting fellow.