(Youngjoo) Jennifer Ryu
Biography & CV
Biography
Youngjoo Jennifer Ryu is a computer music composer based in Seoul, South Korea. Her interests include the experience of discomfort, failed communication, and exposure to what is considered taboo. Using sound synthesis programs such as Max/MSP and SuperCollider, she builds up from making sound from the bottom. She aims to create a multi-layered listening experience by combining different mediums with technology. In the way she presents her art, her interests are in any intermedia approaches that can influence the way the listener appreciates music. Youngjoo is also a techno producer・DJ with the pseudonym ‘amu,’ and has released personal and compilation albums while planning and operating offline performances. amu mainly focuses on techno and ambient genres.


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Education
2021 - 2024
  • M.A. in Music Technology (Electro-acousitic Composition), Korean National University of Arts, Seoul, South Korea
2010 - 2016
  •  B.A. in Information Science and Culture / Business Administration, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea


Grants
  • Arts Council Korea (ARKO), 2024 Multidisciplinary Arts Creation Support Grant
    • ; one of the highest funded project selected out of 254 submissions   
  • Seoul & Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture, “Sounds On 2023” Music・Sound Art Creation Support Grant       
    ; one of the highest funded project selected out of 10 internal submissions
  • Seoul & Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture, “Sounds On 2022” Music・Sound Art Project Research Grant
      ; one of the project selected out of 119 submissions

    Awards
    • Winning Piece, Open Call for Scores, Contemporary Arts Music Project CampGround24, Florida, U.S.A. (2024)
    • Winning Piece, Open Call for Scores, Percussion Duo Moitié, South Korea (2023)
    • Winning Piece, Fest-M, KEAMS (Korea Electro Acoustic Music Society) (2022)


    Performances / Exhibitions / Festivals
    2024
    • ⟨Cake-Cutting Algorithms⟩, Monster Voice II - Split Tongue for live audio performance, Tribe Record Bar, Gwangju, South Korea
    • Solo Exhibition, Sweet Spot Inaccessible for 48.1-channel kinetic sound installations, Post Territory Ujeongguk, Seoul, South Korea
    • NIME 2024, Monster Voice II - Split Tongue for live audio performance, Utrecht, Netherlands
    • ICMC 2024, Monster Voice II - Split Tongue for live audio performance, Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea
    • Contemporary Arts Music Project CAMPGround24, Recursion for piano and live electronics, Florida, U.S.A. 
               - winner from the Call for Scores 2024

    2023
    • Solo Performance, Monster Voice II - Split Tongue for live audio-visual performance, Box theater, Seoul Art Space Mullae, Seoul, South Korea
    • ⟨Peter Gahn: Hidden+Lost—Tracing Sound⟩ Event “Anatomy of sound—Electronic music of K-Arts”, Perforate for 4ch. tape, Alternative Space LOOP, Seoul, South Korea
    • Percussion Duo Moitié “12th Project DECODE”, Trajectory for two percussionists and electronics, Seoul Arts Center IBK Chamber Hall, Seoul, South Korea
               - winner from the Call for Scores 2023

    2022
    • Seoul International Computer Music Festival (SICMF), Recursion for piano and live electronics, Platform-L, Seoul, South Korea
    • Electroakustisches Konzert “Koreanische Perspektiven”, Monster Voice I for audio-visual, HFK BREMEN, Bremen, Germany
    • Daegu International Computer Music Festival (DICMF), Perforate for 4ch. tape, Daegu, South Korea
    • Fest-M, ⟪Recursion⟫ for piano and live electronics, Seoul National University of Education, Seoul, South Korea
             - winning piece

    2021
    • Headphone Concert “Viberation#2”, Perforate for 4ch. tape, Vieux Port, Marseille, France

    2019
    • Solo EP Era release


    Publication
    Ryu, Youngjoo Jennifer. “Monster Voice: Split Tongue,” in Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression, 2024.


    Work Experiences / Services
    Interpreter (Korean - English)                                                                                                                                                                               2023 - 2024
    • Special Lecture for Music Technology program, Korea National University of Arts, Seoul, South Korea
    • Lecturer: Vincent Michalke, Prof. João Oliveira (UCSB), and Prof. Tod Machover (MIT)

    Graduate student researcher, Korea National University of Arts                                                                                                             2022 - 2023
    • Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Mathematics (STEAM) project
    • “Developing and demonstrating digital therapeutic content to control anxiety symtoms through psychiatry-art interdisciplinary research,” South Korea 
    • Role: Sound design and composition for VR meditation app.

    Sound Engineer                                                                                                                                                                                                                2022
    • Seoul International Computer Music Festival (SICMF) 2022, and Fest-M 2022

    Account Executive (AE), Business Solution Group, INNOCEAN                                                                                                             2016 - 2020
    • Global marketing communication company of Hyundai Motor Group
    • Role: Making advertisement campaigns, by communicating between creative teams and clients


    Collaborations / Comissioned works
    as Music Composer, Music Director, and Sound Engineer

    Contemporary Dance Performance
    • 2023 Tantantadan Dance project, Overlook-Overwatch, Aram Nuri Arts Center, Goyang, South Korea
    • 2022 Kyungkeun Yun, Angulate, SAC Art Hall, Seoul, South Korea
    • 2022 Yeaji Lee, Imaginary Body, Mary Hall, Sogang University, Seoul, South Korea (selected for Seoul Foundation of Arts and Culture BENXT project)
    • 2019 Salon de cassé, Land of Jewels, Platform-L, Seoul, South Korea
    • 2018 Nahee Kim, Improvivorprnl, Platform-L, Seoul, South Korea

    Exhibition
    • 2023 Jihyun Kee, solo exhibition Clear Darkness, PLURIPOTENT ART SPACE, Seoul, South Korea
    • 2021 Nahee Kim, Mitorix (selected work for Unfold X & Ob/scene festival), Culture Station Seoul 284, Seoul, South Korea
    • 2019 NO LIVE: Noisy Women, COSMO40, Incheon, South Korea
    • 2017 eobchae, 고 이괴롬 풀 에디션, 공간413

     Film

    Brand Film
    Ⓒ2024 Youngjoo Jennifer Ryu