Last updated on Jan 9, 2010

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“A highlight of the first half... was Korean composer Suk-Jun Kim’s Midong, in which Kim’s Asian musical roots could be heard. Extremely heartfelt and touching, it was a work of masterful simplicity—a rare thing these days, when so many electroacoustic composers seem to feel that more is better.”

Matthew McFarlane, Musicworks (Canada), March 1, 2003

“[Kim’s works] are inspired by a poetics of space and location involving both sound and listener. Initially the pieces seem sparing in their sound design; the always intelligible inner development of a never very large number of sound-objects corresponds with clearly described movements in space. But even with their gentle calmness and transparency, the sounds nevertheless generate subliminal questions, whose answers are constantly delayed in a kind of sonic dream logic that lends the works their tension.”

DAAD website, 2009