Composer & Sound Artist

SOUND
TECHNOLOGY
ART.

Exploring new sensibilities
in technology and art through sound —
and how a space comes to be filled by it.

SPATIAL PRACTICE

Every work plotted against three measured axes — channel count, how far the piece is driven by live input rather than fixed media, and the year it was made. The line traces them in chronological order.

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Loudspeaker array Headphone / HMD involved Sphere size = channel count

WORKS

ABOUT

English

EunJun Kim is a composer working at the intersection of music, media, and technology, with a primary focus on how sound occupies and moves through space. His practice spans multichannel electroacoustic composition, sound installation, audiovisual work, and performance music within VR and XR environments — moving between speaker-array diffusion in physical rooms and virtual acoustic rendering over headphones and head-mounted displays.

His work incorporates sensor data, human movement, and artificial intelligence into real-time systems that generate or transform sound and image. Recent pieces have treated reverberation itself as structural material (Lucid), used ambisonic panning as a compositional layer (interrupt), and distributed a quartet across an eight-speaker array (Sequential). Earlier works drew their generative logic from L-systems (Axiom), body-joint tracking (DATENPROTOKOLL), and environmental data (island air).

His creative inquiries revolve around questions such as:
· How does the perception of moving sound differ between virtual rendering and physical space?
· How can technology expand the structural possibilities of musical composition?
· How can artificial intelligence function as a creative collaborator?

Korean

김은준은 소리가 공간을 어떻게 점유하고 이동하는지를 중심에 두고 작업하는 작곡가입니다. 멀티채널 전자음악, 사운드 설치, 오디오비주얼, 그리고 VR·XR 환경의 퍼포먼스 음악을 오가며, 실재하는 공간의 스피커 배열과 헤드폰·HMD 기반의 가상 음향 렌더링 사이를 왕복해 왔습니다.

센서 데이터와 인간의 움직임, 인공지능을 실시간 시스템에 통합해 소리와 이미지를 생성하거나 변형하는 방식에 집중합니다. 최근 작업은 잔향 자체를 구조적 재료로 다루거나(Lucid), 앰비소닉 패닝을 작곡의 한 층위로 사용하거나(interrupt), 사중주를 8채널 스피커 배열에 분산시키는(Sequential) 방식으로 전개되었습니다. 이전 작업들은 L-시스템(Axiom), 신체 관절 추적(DATENPROTOKOLL), 환경 데이터(island air)에서 생성 논리를 끌어왔습니다.

그의 연구는 다음 질문들을 중심으로 전개됩니다:
· 움직이는 소리에 대한 지각은 가상 렌더링과 실재 공간에서 어떻게 달라지는가?
· 기술은 음악의 구성 방식에 어떤 새로운 가능성을 제시할 수 있는가?
· 인공지능은 창작의 협업자로서 어떻게 작동할 수 있는가?

  • Spatial Audio
  • Multichannel Diffusion
  • Ambisonics
  • Real-time Systems
  • VR / XR
  • Electro-acoustic
  • Computer Music
  • AI
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Education

2020 - 2023
Korea National University of Arts (Seoul, Korea)
School of Music, Electro-acoustic Music Composition, M.A.
2013 - 2019
Chugye University for the Arts (Seoul, Korea)
School of Music, Piano Performance, B.M.

Research

2023 - present
KEAMS (Korea Electro-Acoustic Music Society)
Researcher
2021 - 2024
Korea National University of Arts CT Graduate School Team AI
Music Researcher

Music & Performance

2026
AI Robot Opera | 'Sequential' for Quartet and Live Electronics, Nam June Paik Art Center, Yongin
2025
AI Robot Opera pre-opening | 'Sequential' for Viola, Piano and Live Electronics, Nam June Paik Art Center, Yongin
SICMF 2025 | 'Lucid' for Piano and Live Electronics, CKL Stage, Seoul
2024
SIGGRAPH Asia 2024 | 'Diamond Dust' Music Composition, Tokyo, Japan
Arts Korea Lab Festival | 'Axiom 2', 'REGULATION' for Audiovisual, Arts Korea Lab, Seoul
Ars Electronica Festival 2024 | 'Diamond Dust' Music Composition, Linz, Austria
ICMC 2024 'Sound in Motion' | 'interrupt' for Violin and Live Electronics, Hanyang University Recital Hall, Seoul
2023
Arts Korea Lab Opening Festival | 'DATENPROTOKOLL' for Live Electronics and performance, Arts Korea Lab, Seoul
2022
Hochschule fur Künste Bremen 'KOREANISCHE PERSPEKTIVEN' | 'Axiom' for Audiovisual, Bremen, Germany
Korea National University of Arts 'MTK043' | 'interrupt' for Violin and Live Electronics, Lee Kang Sook Hall, Seoul
fest-m 2022 | 'Axiom' for Audiovisual Live, Seoul National University of Education Concert Hall, Seoul
2021
Korea National University of Arts 'MTK042' | 'Axiom' for Audiovisual Live, Lee Kang Sook Hall, Seoul
fest-m 2021 | 'Splash' for Piano and Live Electronics, Seoul National University of Education Concert Hall, Seoul
Korea National University of Arts 'MTK041' | '선 線, line' for Live Electronics, Lee Kang Sook Hall, Seoul
ARKO Art & Tech final selection | 'Doppelgänger' for VR performance Music Director, Platform-L Live Hall, Seoul
The 25th Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival(BIFAN) | '202 201' Music Composition
2020
Korea National University of Arts 'MTK040' | 'Splash' for Piano and Live Electronics, Lee Kang Sook Hall, Seoul
Korea National University of Arts 'MTK039' | 'Rhythm of Sinewave' for Tape, Lee Kang Sook Hall, Seoul

Exhibition

2023
Nodeul Island Art Space 'New Artist Contest' selection | 'Axiom', 'Island Air' for Audiovisual, Nodeul Gallery, Seoul
KT&G SangsangMadang 'Play with Disco' | 'DATENPROTOKOLL D.I.S.C.O', Chuncheon KT&G, Chuncheon
2021
Ulsan Contemporary Art Festival 'Vibrating Boundaries' | '선 線, line' for 4ch Tape, Jung-gu, Ulsan
2020
The 20th Seoul International ALT Cinema & Media Festival(nemaf2020) | 'REGULATION' for Audiovisual, Post Territory Ujeongguk, Seoul

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