Intervals series, 2020–2023

Works in this series


Intervals series is a research-based artistic project that investigates sound as a relational and temporal condition through practices of listening, recording, and composition. The project unfolds through a series of audiovisual installations, performances, and field-based works developed between 2020 and 2023.

The point of departure lies in memories of my grandmother, who often told me the Korean cosmogonic myth and recounted her dreams, alongside her longing for having the funerary garment sambe.

Through field recordings and conversations with weavers and factory workers, the project traces forms of transmission within matriarchal social worlds, encountering to how knowledge may also be carried through recurring rhythm and embodied gesture. These practices are approached not as static traditions, but as living processes shaped by memory, environment, and social conditions.

Still from Intervals #2: The rhyme of memory and time (2023)

Stills from Intervals (2021) and its epilogue, the departure point for Intervals #2: The rhyme of memory and time (2023).

Collaborative process in interdisciplinary research
Guided by the question of how scientific and technical language might be interpreted and embedded within artistic knowledge production, I collaborated with Professor Efren Fernandez-Grande in the Department of Acoustic Engineering at the Technical University of Denmark. Our collaboration focused on translating acoustic principles and scientific terminology into a lyrical language that could unfold through sensuous and speculative registers.

Across the series, sound operates not simply as a medium but as a condition of relation. Echo, delay, and reverberation are treated as material operations through which voices persist, separate from their sources, overlap, and transform. The works move between different acoustic environments, including reverberation chambers, anechoic spaces, and field-recording sites, examining how space shapes perception and how sound extends beyond the body.

The temporal structure of the project emerges through the juxtaposition of heterogeneous timescales: the slowness of craft and oral transmission, and the acceleration of technological and industrial systems.

Top right: Voice recording in an anechoic chamber.
Top left: Sound recording test in a reverberation chamber.
Bottom right: Voice-over recording in a reverberation chamber (video).
Bottom left: Re-sounding experiment in a reverberation chamber (video).

Intervals series was filmed in both the reverberation chamber and the anechoic chamber. The narrated voice was recorded in these environments and later presented as part of a six-channel immersive sound installation.

Intervals series forms the basis for the later project Longing Energies project, where questions of sound, memory, and transmission are further extended into performative and ritual contexts.