This is a fixed media piece in 60TET for computer-controlled grand piano and electronics.

In this piece several sound models are 'orchestrated' on the Disklavier which is treated like an 'acoustic synthesizer'. The 4 virtual pianos are used both as autonomous instruments as well as microtonal, spatial extensions of the acoustic grand.

It is a reflection on the identity of the piano as a Meta-instrument.

Ab-Tasten, for Disklavier, 4 virtual pianos and spatial sound synthesis.

Automatico (for Youth Orchestra) - Orquesta Sinfonica de Caldas

Disklavier : Tomoki Akiyama
Electronics : Yuki Nakahashi

Inside for Disklavier and Electronics

CrossingLines Ensemble. L'Auditori, Barcelona 26-1-2014
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCMS6e1rYVs

29 (first part), for disklavier, ensemble, electronic devices and video (2014).

For Orchestra and live electronic reduction. 
Premiere recording 08.02.2014 
Sinfonieorchester des SWR Stuttgart, Johannes Kalitzke, Experimentalstudio des SWR

Mehr als die Hälfte (2013)

Premiered by Klangforum Wien, conducted by Johannes Kalitzke
2 August 2023, impuls Festival, Helmut List Halle, Graz

Commissioned by impuls

Produced by ORF/Radio Österreich 1

Go To The Ant (2023) - for 15 instruments

이한(*1998): 우리 주크박스가 망가졌어요 (2024)

Klangforum Wien
클랑포룸 빈
Bas Wiegers, conductor
바스 비허르스, 지휘

World Première, 3 April 2024
Tongyeong International Music Festival 2024 "𝐄𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐢𝐧 𝐌𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬"


(한국어판)
이제 많은 사람들은 ‘음악 감상’을 위해 음악을 틀지 않습니다. 음악 엔터테인먼트 산업은 더이상 음악을 최우선 순위로 두지 않습니다. 번화가에 나가면 최소 10곡 이상의 음악이 경쟁하듯이 우리의 귀를 때립니다. 이 정도로 음악이 넘쳐났던 시기는 이전에 없었습니다. 이러한 세상에서, 우리는 과연 무엇을 음악으로 받아들일까요? 그리고 그 기준은 무엇일까요?

작품 ＜Our Jukebox is Acting Up＞은 오늘날 음악이 갖는 의미에 대한 고찰에서 출발합니다. 앞서 말했듯, 우리는 삶 속에서 정말 많은 소리들과 마주하고 있습니다. 하지만 그 모든 것이 우리에게 음악으로 다가오지는 않을 것입니다. (특히 한국에서) 자동차가 후진할 때 나오는 ‘엘리제를 위하여’는 음악일까요? 옆 사람의 휴대전화 벨소리는 과연 어떨까요? 그저 스포트라이트의 차이는 아닐까요?
이러한 질문들을 출발점으로 하여, 작품은 스스로 ‘사회적 맥락에서의 음악’을 인지하고 그것으로부터 도망을 다니게 됩니다. 작품 내에서 발생하는 사건들과 그로 인한 대조는 이를 더욱 명확히 하고, 그동안 감춰져 왔던 내재적 청취 경험에 대한 주목도를 높이도록 유도합니다. 

네, 주크박스는 이미 그 역할을 잃어버렸습니다!

(Feat. nokjo & 김민하)


(English Ver.)
Nowadays, the vast majority of music consumers do not turn the music on just to “listen” to it. Music itself is not a priority anymore in the music entertainment business too. In downtown, you can easily experience more than 10 ear-piercing songs hitting your cochlea. This means that we’re living in an era of the greatest musical abundance in human history. In this world, what kind of things do we perceive as “music”? Are there any strict yardsticks to judge music and non-music?

My piece ＜우리 주크박스가 망가졌어요＞ starts from the meaning and definition of the music these days. As I said previously, we face a tremendous amount of sonic events in our everyday lives. But, not all of them can be “a music” for you. Is ＜Ode to Joy＞ coming out from various jingles “a music”? How about the ringing cellphone of an anonymous person sitting nearby? Don't you think it's just a difference of spotlight? 
Starting from these kind of questions, this piece recognizes what ‘music in the context of society’ is itself and keeps escaping from it. Events happening inside this piece and the contrast derived from these events maximize the escape, and make listeners concentrate on the experience of ‘inherent listening’.

Yup, the JUKEBOX has now gone wrong already!

(Feat. nokjo & Minha Kim)


Tongyeong International Music Festival - Klangforum Wien with Sophia Burgos 
https://www.klangforum.at/event/tongyeong-international-music-festival


Video & Audio Recording ©통영국제음악재단 Tongyeong International Music Foundation

Our Jukebox is Acting Up (우리 주크박스가 망가졌어요) for ensemble (2024)

Asian Music Guide+ for Orchestra (recorded by iphone）

23.06.25 ilshin hall, Seoul, PMF Ensemble

Chrono-Debris[2025]

CrossingLines Ensemble 10-2018

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DehpkUIXue4&t=66s

<29> Full version (Parts I+II+III)for ensemble, disklavier, tape and video(2014-18)

Premiered by Alan Pierson and Alarm Will Sound
Missouri Theater
Columbia, Missouri, USA
July 28, 2018

Unseen Beneath the Ice (2018)- for sinfonietta

이한 Han Lee
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