Im Jahr 1963 hatte Yun die Demokratische Volksrepublik Nordkorea besucht, was damals über die nordkoreanische Botschaft in Ost-Berlin möglich war.
1967 wurde Yun vom südkoreanischen Geheimdienst über die südkoreanische Botschaft in Bonn nach Seoul entführt und gefoltert. In einem Schauprozess wurde er, das prominenteste Opfer dieser „Entführung“ (in Süd-Korea verharmlosend „East Berlin Incident“ genannt), am 13. Dezember 1967 in erster Instanz zu lebenslanger Haft verurteilt, kam er nach internationalen Protesten 1969 frei, kehrte nach West-Berlin zurück, wo er und seine Frau im Jahr 1971 deutsche Staatsbürger wurden. 1972 ensteht der erste Teil des Trios zum 70. Geburstag Boris Blachers, 1975 entsteht der zweite Teil, zum Andenken an ihn.

Isang Yun (1917-1995) Klaviertrio (UA Berlin 1973)

azurite dprctd

I xxxx you because you xxxx me; entangled 
for amplified ensemble (2021)

November 29, 2021 - Basel, Gare du Nord, mirror///error
kinnect kollektiv
Live recording

I xxxx you because you xxxx me; You xxxx me because I xxxx you; I don’t xxxx you because you don’t xxxx me; You don’t xxxx me because I don’t xxxx you; I am you because you are me; A xxxx B because B xxxx A; I'm small, if you think I'm small; I'm big, if you think I’m big; I'm xxxx, if you think I’m xxxx; You are xxxx, if I think you are xxxx; It is about relation and dynamic; It's not about simple logic but about desire of life.

When I die, everything is lost to me. So I want to be with more desire, even though I know it's all gone when I die.  I don't live with the thought of dying. I think it's someone else's story. I after dying am to me  a stranger. It is about relation, that exists, but doesn’t exist. So things we can think are easy to fool. So things the earnestness can be more sincere. It is about the dynamic the relation creates.

I can not control even my shallow feelings. On the one hand, what can a very weak human  being, bound by memories from a very young age, really control anything? How I think about you affects you is that you become me, and vice versa is of course possible. If something happens to the beings which are very far from each other at the same time for no reason, it is an event that is out of their will, whether material or spiritual, existential or non-existential. It just happens regardless of our will.

Music not music, and music without music are music in the present time. I not me and I without me am me in the present time. I am denied by this time and this space and I resist it. I xxxx you because you xxxx me. You xxxx me because I xxxx you.

I xxxx you because you xxxx me; entangled (2021)

BRIGHTER SUNS (2022) - for solo electric guitar and electronics

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Nico Couck, electric guitar (Nadar Ensemble)
Live recording, May 21, 2022

BRIGHTER SUNS

Ríos de piedra is a piece inspired by different water shapes.

Rios De Piedra for live electronics and objects

Diese Zeiten sind vorbei... (2019)
ca. 20'00''
commissioned by the Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik
premiered in May 2019 by the Ensemble Garage and Rie Watanabe

Diese Zeiten sind vorbei... [excerpt] (2019) music theatre

SWR Symphonieorchester
Titus Engel (conductor)

Desillusionierung (2020/21) for orchestra

UK drummer and sound artist Cameron Graham signs to Phantom Limb and debuts with EP Go Out, forging a unique and headspinning bridge between EDM, joyous calypso colour, cellular Glassian minimalism, and hyperrealist AI.

Creating his dizzying, dayglo MIDI explorations with drumkit triggers, UK musician Cameron Graham conjures a multitude of soundworlds from dense compositional structures. The music of debut EP Go Out touches on neon, videogame digitisation, the finessed, mechanical precision of IDM, even the rhythmic intensity of gamelan, whilst retaining a thrilling and wholly singular energy. The record is an electrifying experience, full of colour and bubbling with unpredictability. Combining animatronic carnival and impish fug, Cameron reins control of spinning melodic lines and frequency filters into a radiant SNES world of blissful vibrancy.

Go Out opens with "Authority Figures", bubbling with heady unpredictability (and foreshadowing the alternate take on the same track that appears on Graham’s forthcoming debut album, due for release later in 2023). Its textures - formed in wavetable synthesis triggered by live-performed percussion pads - thread and bob through hallucinogenic abstract space. As if a marching band were lost in euphoric, insubordinate abandon and had replaced their battery snares with millisecond snippets of organ chords and steel pans. “I was compelled into making the most joyful and celebratory music I could while the world was falling apart and fragmenting further and further into chaos,” Cameron tells us. “A murderous war, immediately after a pandemic, woven into an ever-more fractious and seemingly insane social and political landscape. This project was the only possible creative act in the face of abject senselessness. What was a natural response for me, is for the listeners a loud invitation to go out, to move, to melt into music, to let go.”

Go Out's textures - formed in wavetable synthesis triggered by live-performed percussion pads - thread and bob through hallucinogenic abstract space. As if a marching band were lost in euphoric, insubordinate abandon and had replaced their battery snares with millisecond snippets of organ chords and steel pans. “I was compelled into making the most joyful and celebratory music I could while the world was falling apart and fragmenting further and further into chaos,” Cameron tells us. “A murderous war, immediately after a pandemic, woven into an ever-more fractious and seemingly insane social and political landscape. This project was the only possible creative act in the face of abject senselessness. What was a natural response for me, is for the listeners a loud invitation to go out, to move, to melt into music, to let go.”

I xxxx you because you xxxx me; entangled (2021)

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