Viola – Ilgyeong Shin
Cover art - Jun Yeong "Siren" Hyeong

As a life-long viola fan (and a viola player myself too), this is intended as a study on virtuosic aspects of viola, to overcome its inherent timbral/structural “imperfections”, which makes the instrument as a kind of laughing stock, for example; being a victim of so-called “Viola jokes”. Also, the pieces are a kind of hommage or rather a violation of repertoires by the composers of 20th century which helped expand the instrumental possibility of viola.

Joonghyun Lee : Violent Jokes (2021)

2. Soften Violate

Music does not have to be nice to the ear and does not have to follow trends and "schools". But it must come from your heart and soul and convey everything you want to say but cannot express in words.