JungAh Lee

awakening (2025)

violin and electroacoustic sound

Duration : c. 6′

World Premiere on June 15, 2025
at New Music On the Point Festival by Christopher Otto.

Korean Premiere on July 5, 2025
at JungAh Lee Portrait Concert ‘sense-stimulus’ by Subin Hwang.

awakening draws from the affinities between environmental sound and acoustic instruments. This idea is manifested through a subtle use of electronics, blurring the boundaries so that the distinction between violin and electroacoustic sound becomes ambiguous. The violin’s fragile harmonics remind me of the purity of birdsong. By overlapping the violin’s fourth octave and birdsong sharing frequencies in the 2,000-4,000Hz range, I found a subtle convergence of the natural and crafted, opening a liminal space where sound feels weightless and ethereal.

awakening is my recognition of, and tribute to, a quiet principle underlying creation. To be, to weather, and to awaken feels to me like a thread linking all that exists.