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Time Crystals Rippling Over the Magenta Ocean
Time Crystals Rippling Over the Magenta Ocean is a light‑projection work composed for La Monte Young’s New Version of Chronos Kristalla for String Octet with Marian Zazeela’s Dream Light at the Bourse de Commerce in Paris.
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Light Point Drawings Nos. 28 and 29
Light Point Drawings Nos. 28 and 29 with still lights; mixed media: black wrap with pinholes, fresnel lights
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Color (Abyss / Twitch): live realization v. 2.1 (2013, 2025)
Color (CNN / Twitch): live realization v. 2.1 (2025); Installation view, mixed media: incense, CNN/Twitch live streams, video projectors, wood, acrylic sheets, colored gel. Dream House, MELA Foundation, New York, 2025. Photo: Jung Hee Choi. Copyright © Jung Hee Choi 2025.
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Color (CNN / Twitch): live realization v. 2 (2013, 2023)
Color (CNN / Twitch): live realization v. 2 (2013, 2023); Installation view, mixed media: incense, CNN/Twitch live streams, video projectors, wood, acrylic sheets, colored gel. Dream House, MELA Foundation, New York, 2023. Photo: Jung Hee Choi. Copyright © Jung Hee Choi 2023.
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Ahata Anahata, Manifest Unmanifest XI
Environmental Composition 2017 #1 is created with Light Point Drawings on black wrap with video projections. With hypodermic needles, I perforated the black wrap to create elaborate curvilinear patterns that are inspired by the shape of incense smoke. Incense smoke is a vapor; it does not have a solid physical body and its form is…
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Tonecycle for Blues Base 30 Hz, 2:3:7 Ensemble Version with 4:3 and 7:6
Tonecycle Base 30 Hz, 2:3:7 consists of the linear superposition of 77 sine wave frequencies, all ascending imperceptibly to fixed frequencies and then descending to the starting frequencies. In this composition, there are eleven groups of sine wave frequency components set in ratios based on the harmonics 2, 3 and 7. Each of the eleven…
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Ahata Anahata, Manifest Unmanifest IX
Ahata Anahata, Manifest Unmanifest IX Environmental Composition 2015 #1: Light Point Drawings No. 19, 20, 21 and 22 (2015) 23 ft x 14 ft; mixed media: black wrap with pinholes, translucent paper, and video Dia 15 VI 13 545 West 22 Street Dream House Environmental Composition 2015 #1 is created with Light Point Drawings on black wrap with video projections. …
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Tonecycle Base 30 Hz, 2:3:7 Vocal Version
The linear superposition of 77 sine wave frequencies and 6 channels of La Monte Young, Marian Zazeela and Jung Hee Choi voice overlays set in ratios based on the harmonics 2, 3 and 7 imperceptibly ascending toward fixed frequencies and then descending toward the starting frequencies, infinitely revolving as in circles, in parallel and various…
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RICE, video sound installation
RICE 1999, multi-channel video sound installation RICE contains abstract and non-objective images and sounds. The video is a realization of ever-changing sustained images. There can be an ever-larger number of fluctuations of ever-smaller amplitude. Unlike a repetitive optical pattern, the RICE images are a process in time that reflects the self-organized formation systems used to…
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Color (CNN), live realization
Color (CNN), live realization offers double modalities of a single property to signify phenomenology of the experience in constructing the sense of reality. The CNN live feed is projected on a black wall and on a fleeting smoke released by burning incense. From one perspective the image of the CNN newscast can be viewed clearly on…
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Environmental Composition 2014 #1
Environmental Composition 2014 #1 is created with Light Point Drawings on black wrap with video projections. Black wrap is matte-finished studio aluminum foil used to control and reduce spill light. With a gauge 25 needle (0.02025 nominal outer diameter), I perforated the black wrap to create elaborate curvilinear patterns that are inspired by the shape…
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Environmental Composition 2012 #3
Environmental Composition 2012 #3 Environmental Composition 2012 #3 is created with Light Point Drawings on black wrap with video projections. Black wrap is matte-finished studio aluminum foil used to control and reduce spill light. With a gauge 25 needle (0.02025 nominal outer diameter), I perforated the black wrap to create elaborate curvilinear patterns that are…
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Composition 2006 #3 (spirit)
Composition 2006 #3 (Spirit) combines video projection as the illumination source with a large-scale graphite drawing on black paper. The video component of Composition 2006 #3 (Spirit)was created with incense smoke. Incense smoke does not have a solid physical body and its form is infinitely variable. However, the smoke makes visible the subtle movement of…
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RICE
RICE 1999-2009, variable dimensions; multi-channel video installation RICE contains abstract and non-objective images and sounds. The video is a realization of ever-changing sustained images. There can be an ever-larger number of fluctuations of ever-smaller amplitude. Unlike a repetitive optical pattern, the RICE images are a process in time that reflects the self-organized formation systems used…
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AUM (incense calligraphy)
AUM is incense smoke created by repeated and spontaneous strokes of incense calligraphy: the handwritten inscription in the air of the Sanskrit character AUM, using a burning stick of incense. Incense smoke is evanescent; it does not have a solid physical body and its form is infinitely variable. However, the smoke makes visible the subtle…
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Color (CNN)
Color (CNN) 2009, 21’23”; single-channel HD video Color was created with a CNN newscast projected on incense smoke performing as moving colored light. Incense smoke does not have a solid physical body and its form is infinitely variable. However, the smoke makes visible the subtle movement of air in the space and confers perceivable corporeal…
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The Just Alap Raga Ensemble
Dia 15 VI 13 545 West 22 Street Dream House The Just Alap Raga Ensemble Pandit Pran Nath 19th Anniversary Memorial Tribute Three Evening Concerts of Raga Darbari in the Dia Dream House Saturday, June 13, Friday, June 19 and Saturday, June 27, 2015, 9 pm La Monte Young, voice Marian Zazeela, voice Jung Hee…
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Tonecycle for Blues (2014) Base 30 Hz, 2:3:7 Vocal Version with 3:4 and 6:7
TWO LIVE CONCERT PERFORMANCES Jung Hee Choi Tonecycle for Blues (2014) Base 30 Hz, 2:3:7 Vocal Version with 3:4 and 6:7 Saturdays, 13 and 20 September 2014, 9 pm La Monte Young, voice Marian Zazeela, voice Jung Hee Choi, voice 77 Sine wave frequencies MELA Foundation Dream House 275 Church Street, 3rd Floor, between Franklin…
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A Raga Lesson
A Raga Lesson Film, 16mm, color, 11 min. (2007) A Raga Lesson is about the guru-disciple relationship among a small subset of Kirana gharana musicians in America, with the inaudible yet ever-present background of the music itself. Through fragments of the lives of musicians, this film shows how the tradition is passed down,…
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Room with a View
Room with a View 2006, 4’59”; single-channel video sound The visual element of Room With A View is comprised of cells and layers that together become interwoven strands of a video tapestry. Every cell simultaneously obeys a simple rule dependent on the original pattern of each of the layers. The layers freely superimpose and…
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Baby Blues
Baby Blues, 16 mm, 6 min. (2006) Up to 80% of postpartum women suffer Baby Blues. In severe cases, postpartum depression can cause the development of hallucinations; delusions occur in about 0.1 – 0.2% of all women after having given birth. Baby Blues illustrates a perfectly normal and happy woman who is destroyed by the…
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Tonecycle Base 30 Hz, 2:3:7 Sine Wave Version
12-minute except from the 32-minute cycle. The lowest frequency in this work is 30 Hz and a good subwoofer is required to reproduce the full range of the work. Tonecycle Base 30 Hz, 2:3:7 Sine Wave Version 2012, sound environment: the linear superposition of 77 sine wave frequencies set in ratios based on the harmonics 2, 3…