4-channel mixed down to stereo

[Program Note]
People live their lives on their own trajectories. Different trajectories of variant directions, with other ways of movement and different shapes of trails left behind, overlap and intersect to form a connection.

This piece focuses on the centrality of 'hitting' and 'tapping' in percussion performance. It captures the change of timbre when the instruments, the object of the 'tapping,' change. 'Trajectory' also focuses on the experiment of the sound changing by the movement of the two performers. 

The performers move along the instruments arranged in an arc, creating a trajectory. Each movement, starting from a distance, converges to a point. When the separated instruments meet at the point of contact, the two trajectories blend, covering each other's territory with the same timbre. The combination of the trajectories of the percussion instruments played alongside the electro-acoustic sound, their meeting at the point, and the combination of the points and the trajectories creates a timelessly changing tone.


Jennifer Ryu_Trajectory for two percussionists and electronics (2022-2023)

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amu from Seoul, South Korea

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amu is a Seoul-based DJ/producer who deals with electronic music mainly focusing on techno and ambient genres. She relays experiences of unpleasantness and miscommunication through her productions. 
 
amu's personal experience of anxiety and fear leading to actual physical pain have led to motivating her for sharing 'senses' through music. Including the sound of pounding the body, the ambiance such as submerging into the water, and the sound of the hair-raising sense of the back, her music is embodied as a substance with physical properties, leaving a sense of lingering rather than emotional lingering.

As the co-founder/director of the Seoul's first underground house/techno channel “textures.”, amu has been curating her texture to the people in Seoul. “amu selects” series introduced notable techno tracks/artists combining with the scenery of Seoul as a video. The “amu selects” series illuminates the local techno scene through the first volume and the overseas techno through the second volume. 

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Releases

'Never a Land Without People' Compil. (2020)
'Era' EP (2019)
'Right, But'Club' Compil. (2019)
‘N.A.S.A.’ Compil. (2019)
‘Plastic People’ Compil. (2018)
'Konimeter’ Compil. (2018)
‘G.U.N.’ Compil. (2018)

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Press

Podcast: Discwoman, 'DiscUs 004'
EP Review: https://mixmag.asia/read/korean-dj-amu-drops-her-first-ep-new-releases
Interview: https://tunrmusic.com/inspirational/amu

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Music Projects

Film Music: "Rangda" (2020)
Event: "ZER01NE DAY Festival" (27.9.2019)
Event: Vans, "House of Vans: Visla Magazine 'House of House Music'" (7.9.2019)
Exhibition: "노라이브 NO LIVE", <FUTURE SONIC>, COSMO40 (31.8.2019 - 20.10.2019)
Dance Music: Salon de casse, "寶席의 娜裸: 보석의 나라", Platform-L (17.8.2019 – 18.8.2019)
Dance Music: Nahee Kim, "ImprovivorpmI in Visual Studio", Platform-L (20.1.2018 - 26.1.2018)
Exhibition: 업체eobchae, "(故)고 이 괴롬 풀 에디션", 공간 사일삼 (1.12.2017 – 15.12.2017)
 
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Gigs

2019
DEC 18 Thai Tour: Marmoset, BEAM
DEC 05 HVOB, Cakeshop
NOV 29 KA WAI & MNDC, Concrete Bar
NOV 22 txtrs. [select 03.] Umfang, Volnost
NOV 15 Mark Reeve, LIVIN'
NOV 09 Thai Tour: Asianism, Mezzanine
NOV 02 'Era' EP Release Party, Concrete Bar
AUG 30 txtrs. [select 02.] Korea Town Acid, Concrete Bar
JUN 14 txtrs. [select 01.] Shlomo, Modeci 
APR 27 Club Rotary, Contra
APR 26 Cosmos vol.18, ain
APR 05 KYLL, ain
MAR 22 Bcr_220319(Xin V, Shakti), Beton Brut
MAR 15 txtrs. presents: MALT, Contra
JAN 26 the internatiiional RAVE AGE, Contra
JAN 05 (KONA, SINQMIN), Beton Brut
 
2018
DEC 21 txtrs., Contra
DEC 15 (Keiti Aki, Yomi, Lynpung), ain
DEC 13 Seoul Community Radio txtrs. show
OCT 26 MAGIC LOOP 2nd Anniversary, Pistil
SEP 14 Panparth in Seoul, DIP
SEP 13 Untold, Beton Brut
SEP 01 BOOTCAMP 2nd Compil. Release Party, Pistil
AUG 24 Vertigo Helpline, DIP
AUG 17 False Witness, Cakeshop
JUL 27 BOOTCAMP, DIP
JUN 08 Vertigo Helpline, DIP
MAY 31 Nodaji Show Live, Contra
MAY 26 BOOTCAMP, DIP
MAY 25 No Club #32, Seendosi
MAY 05 BOOTCAMP 1st Compil. Release Party, Pistil
MAR 24 Vertigo Helpline, DIP
MAR 23 NBDKNW Pres. Bulma, Seendosi