Karl Kim - Compositions

A prototype of an experimental musique concrete piece, may expand further sometime in the future :)

marble bouncing in hyperspace [prototype ver.]

One thing I used to love doing is improvising on an instrument. This is one of the results of that.

Improvisation No. 4

Another prototype of a potential upcoming piece.

3L2S1U [prototype ver.]

Improvisation No. 5

Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/wKiH62uFGD4

respects in f (electronic version)

Performed by Bearthoven (https://soundcloud.com/bearthoven): 
Karl Larson - piano
Pat Swoboda - upright bass
Matt Evans - drumset, percussion

Also with janggu and electronics by Karl Kim

Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Jt1UD3dmvQs
Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/6deh5RnHuuK6Q2hUUmFqR5
Listen on Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/album/connected-feat-bearthoven/1569325343?i=1569325345

connected

A quick and humorous metal track because I'm bored lol

Listen on Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/album/your-cute/1571582263?i=1571582266

your cute?

Composed for week 8 of Z-i-v Summer Contest 2021: Onomatopoeia

Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/59ANoGSjLEGQwpp4ZAQ9th?si=1e5b3b4d1e6d40b4
Listen on Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/album/random-scaternal-melmordy-single/1579231615?uo=4&app=apple+music

Random Scaternal Melmordy

Noise Improv No. 1

Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/2JyJaENlHnFwWXnNmb7rxi?si=6752ba8a37004c56
Listen on Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/album/op-3/1568871875?i=1568872446

Op. 3

Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/5eS3x7OESKe7EBpUZ8CrmX?si=2c7133c3ccd540c9
Listen on Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/album/poem-14-single/1568868412

Poem 14

Twelve Tone Piece No. 1

Credits: 

Matthew Leland - trumpet
Josh Bialkin - trumpet
Peter DelGrosso - horn
Karl Kim - trombone, electronics
Caitlin Jodoin - tuba

Twelve Tone Piece No. 3

Listen on Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/album/central-unstable-live/1569271533?i=1569271534

central unstable -B- (live @ Pulsing And Shaking 2/25/20)

Credits:

Christine Hunsberger - flute, piccolo
Evan O. Adams (https://soundcloud.com/evan-o-adams) - electric guitar
Jackie Andresen - violin
YuJi - piano
Karl Kim (https://soundcloud.com/karl-kim) - electric bass guitar
Christopher Bush - conductor

Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/0nXP1wPaztiCy8LIlbQNuv?si=e3ab42503e864e51

Brr Brr Deng

Submission to: http://midflightdigital.weebly.com/composition-contest.html
Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/3pzHpkawRpeemSG2JqZ787?si=665c4374bf944da5
Listen on Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/album/seven-8-nine/1568894648?i=1568894649
Listen on YouTube with Stepmania charts (charts by Karl with a K): https://youtu.be/2PF80KxLrOk
Download Stepmania charts: https://zenius-i-vanisher.com/v5.2/viewsimfile.php?simfileid=43124

Feedback very much appreciated.

Seven 8 Nine

Performed by: 
Carolyn Stallard
Kendall Rhymer
Anthony McIntosh
Max Meyer

Composed for So Percussion Summer Institute 2020

Also check out the video made for this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWcchWX_1JE&list=PLmgzc19LPQ1aMEpfM9C-dPJ5Tst99Itjj&index=9

Home, Safe?, Home

Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/719VipQuJ7ZGA6qZpv9oFD?si=97aa5563b82949a2
Listen/watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/siL1OVXpfp0
Listen on Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/album/these-times/1568908365?i=1568908366

these _______ times

Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/7t6mt28XZNucgOxL7Inf6y?si=4ff98f06b90c4df3
Listen/watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/pc26AREw3Vc
Listen on Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/album/as-the-clock-strikes-eleven/1568908507?i=1568908508

as the clock strikes eleven

Written for and performed by Annie Ziyao Huang

Premiered for Ring in the New: https://steinhardt.nyu.edu/events/ring-new
Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/7suYyO4wupsshQ40rw5SIB?si=dd122acf00924e2e

Program notes:
"Dismantled, Rebuilt, And Destroyed" is an experiment with consciously bringing in elements of a metal subgenre known as djent, into the solo piano repertoire. Influences on the composer include bands like Meshuggah, Periphery, Animals as Leaders, After the Burial, and Glass Cloud.

Dismantled, Rebuilt, And Destroyed

Karl Kim is a man of many musical hats (perhaps too many for his own good, but that's a discussion for another time). 

​​His musical journey started off with piano lessons at age six, and from there he has picked up many other instruments over the years, including but not limited to: violin, guitar, trombone, and various percussion instruments. Karl was also just as quick to branch out to styles of music other than classical; most significant of these styles is rock and metal (especially of the progressive variety), but jazz, EDM, experimental music, and folk music from various parts of the world have also played a role in shaping him as a musician. 

As a concert music composer, these musical experiences, especially those as a metal guitarist, are what make up the voice that he projects into his compositions, especially in recent times. Pieces like "The Jury is Sleepless", "Without a Minute to Spare", and "So Cold, So Dark, So Chaotic" exist at a crossroads between music for the concert hall and music for the mosh pit. His music has been performed by ensembles such as the Rhythm Method, S.E.M., and Bearthoven, and he holds a B.M. in Music Theory and Composition from New York University. 

"Karl with a K" is an alter ego of Karl Kim. Karl with a K, while having the same musical background as Karl Kim, draws upon a fascination for rhythm game music that started with Dance Dance Revolution at the age of eight, and grew considerably to encompass games including, but not limited to, Sound Voltex, In the Groove, beatmania IIDX, Voez, and Arcaea. Karl with a K brings his background in metal and 20th century classical music into rhythm game original tracks such as "!CAUTION! small but deadly", "BELLUM", and "rudimentary methods of overkill", which can be characterized by plenty of guitars, unusual rhythms, and sometimes non-instruments being used as instruments. Much of his output as Karl with a K is written for the purposes of Stepmania simfile creation (though as of BMS of Fighters: EighTeen's "0verfl0w_err0r" this is no longer exclusively the case).

Karl Kim currently resides in Bloomington, Indiana where he is pursuing an M.M. in Music Scoring for Visual Media at the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University. Karl with a K can be seen lurking around the internet (especially specific Discord servers), occasionally not being above a good meme from time to time. In addition, Karl with a K is working on his first project as a game developer, a typing meets rhythm gaming fusion titled "glyph;".