ARTISTIC STATEMENT:
My work engages interdisciplinarity collaboration, multimedia, improvisation, and relationships between genre, performer, and audience. I am interested in using notated composition, improvisation, conduction, and theatrics to reflect my observations on contemporary society and life, especially on reactionary movements towards the past, our place as artists in late-capitalist society, diasporic identity, and the fragmentation of a concept of commonly accepted “truth.”
My artistic practice encompasses notated composition, conducting, and conducted/free improvisation. Below, find recent works representative of my body of work. The “⋆” symbol denotes that a score is available — please inquire via emailing me at hello@solomonkim.me.
LARGE ENSEMBLE MUSIC (9+)
2022 – False Promises / conducted improvisation
2022 – When Tigers Smoked Tobacco Pipes / orchestra
2022 – The Meeting / electroacoustic improvisation
‣ workshopped in April 2022 with What the Folk?! Devising Workshop, Tom Zhang, and the Pinkies.
SOLO/CHAMBER MUSIC (1-9 performers)
2022 – Heat Lightning / flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano
‣ premiered by the ECS Composers’ Ensemble at Emory Composers’ Society Chamber Connections.
2022 – Destroy the Reified Abstract Concrete Superstructure of Doom! / bari sax, electric guitar
‣ written for and premiered by Hypercube.
2022 – Let’s Go Back (to How Things Were Before) / solo clarinet / ⋆
‣ premiered at the Atlantic Music Festival, 2022 season.
2022 – Octet / flute, clarinet, 2 bassoons, 2 trumpets, 2 trombones / ⋆
‣ premiered in April 2022 by the Emory Chamber Winds.
2021 – resolves to… / clarinet, cello, and piano / ⋆
‣ premiered in 2021 at the Emory Composers’ Society Chamber Connections concert.
2021 – Whisper — Breeze / string quintet ⋆
‣ premiered in 2021 at the Heifetz Hootenanny July 31, 2021 concert.
2020 – Hymn to Music / SATB choir ⋆
‣ premiere by the American School in Japan Combined Choirs cancelled due to Covid-19
2019 – Two Worlds / small SATB ensemble / audio
‣ premiered in 2019 by the American School in Japan Vocal Jazz Ensemble
MULTIMEDIA
2021 – Fragmented / fixed stereo audio / audio
2021 – Simplexity for TEDxEmory / fixed stereo audio and video / video
Solomon Kim - Composer 