SELECTED ACTIVITIES & COLLABORATIONS
Dohee Lee Puri Arts (2010-Present)
Music Composition, Sound Design, Korean Percussion
I have worked with Dohee Lee as a member of Puri Arts since 2010. Initially contributing to Dohee's dance-theater productions as a violinist, guitarist and Korean percussionist, I soon moved into a role of composer and sound designer and have collaborated on a significant number of her projects including SPoRA (2010), GaNADa (2011-2012), MAGO (2012-2014), ARA/ARA Ritual (2012-2018), MU (2017-2023), and Chilseong Saenamgut (2021-2025). With Dohee and Puri Arts, I have performed at venues including Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco), REDCAT (Los Angeles), Dolores Winningstad Theatre (Portland), Wiener Festwochen (Vienna), Gibney (New York City), Colegio de San Ildefonso (Mexico City), Asian Art Museum (San Francisco), the Oakland Museum of California and more.
Photo by Whitney Browne
inkBoat's Clouds from a Crumbling Giant (2023-Present)
Sound Design
Since 2023 I have contributed as a sound designer to inkBoat's dance-theater production, Clouds from a Crumbling Giant. The project has gone through several iterations including work-in-progress performances at Joe Goode Annex in 2023, Theatre of Yugen NOHSpace in 2025, and the world premiere at Z Space in 2026.
Reviews from the premiere: Theatre Eddys, SF Chronicle
Photo by Robbie Sweeny
NAKA Dance Theater
Music Composition & Sound Design
I have worked as a composer and sound designer on several productions by NAKA Dance Theater (José Ome Navarrete Mazatl & Debby Kajiyama) including BAILOUT (2012-2015) and BUSCARTE (2017-2018). I also contributed a sonic altar sound installation for The Anastasio Project (2017).
Photo by Scott Tsuchitani
OMMO (2015-2019)
Electro-Acoustic Duo with Julie Moon
I met Julie Moon (1984-2023) in 2014 at Mills College where we were both studying in the music MFA program. We formed OMMO, an electro-acoustic duo inspired by shared interests in Korean diasporic identity, ritual, and impressionistic harmonies. Our duo explored past traditions through a contemporary framework, employing varying configurations of piano, voice, violin and electronics in original compositions. During our active years, we regularly performed in the SF Bay Area including at the SF Electronic Music Festival in 2018, and abroad in Korea in 2016.
Genevieve Quick's Planet Celadon & Hello World
Music Composition & Sound Design
I composed music and sound design for several projects by interdisciplinary artist Genevieve Quick: Planet Celadon: Operation Completed (2020), a video work, and the interactive video game and performance piece Hello World (2022).
Photo by Pat Mazzera
Free Improvisation
Although trained as a classical violinist starting at age three, my interest in free improvisation began while an undergrad at Bard College where I joined a free improvisation ensemble. Upon graduating and moving to San Francisco in 2004, I immersed myself in the vibrant Bay Area experimental music scene and focused my violin playing on improvisation. I briefly studied improvisation with violinist India Cooke and played in Bob Marsh's Emergency String (X)tet. Over the years, I have enjoyed improvising with many Bay Area musicians and ensembles.
Pictured: improv trio with Kanoko Nishi (koto) and Kristina Dutton (violin) for RE:SOUND at Mare Island in 2017.
Korean Percussion
I was introduced to Korean percussion music — pungmul (풍물) and samulnori (사물놀이) in 2008 when I joined Jamaesori, a drumming group based in Oakland formed in 1991 by a group of progressive Korean-American women who used Pilbong-style pungmul to support social justice movements. Studying Korean drumming has been the most powerful way for me to connect to my Korean identity as a Korean adoptee that arrived in the US at three months old. I returned to Korea for the first time in 2010 to take private janggu lessons and study pungmul at the Imsil Pilbong Nongak Training Center and samulnori at the Lee Kwang-soo Academy of Korean Music in Yesan. While Jamaesori's time as a collective came to an end around 2014, I have continued to stay engaged in this participatory music practice through community drumming events and through my ongoing work with Dohee Lee.
Bands
During my undergraduate years at Bard College I played in a number of bands including The Dry Spells, with whom I moved to San Francisco upon graduating in 2004. We were active until about 2015, and released a full-length album, Too Soon For Flowers (2009) on Empty Cellar Records (CD) and Antenna Farm Records (vinyl) which made Bob Boilen's "Best of 2009" list. In 2015 we released a split 7" with The She's on Antenna Farm Records.
I was also a member of Ezra Feinberg's Citay (with several releases on Dead Oceans) in the mid-00s to early 2010s and played in various other shorter-lived projects.