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Hasla

Hasla, an intermedia project consisting of electroacoustic compositions, sound installations, and a short story titled Tails, was particularly influenced by Borges’s story titled Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius and Calvino’s Invisible Cities. Both stories create places by employing scientific (archeological, specifically) approaches on one hand and creating imaginary and semiotic layers on the other hand, questioning the mechanisms of a place—its ontological behavior (how it exists or how we exist in it), and our epistemological attitude toward it (how we know it exists). Accordingly, the project Hasla aimed to investigate how a place becomes one that affords our experience, and more interestingly, how our knowing of a place is established.

Based on an imaginary land called Hasla and its 76 cities, the project attempted to corroborate its existence by providing evidence. Just like the travelers in the old days who brought stories, paintings, and souvenirs from abroad, Kim created electroacoustic compositions, each of which is either based on a city in Hasla, or a journey from one part of Hasla to another, installations made up of various sound-creating objects as souvenirs, and a short story called Tails, which functions yet another semiotic layer of the project.

Hasla was supported by Berliner Künstlerprogramme des DAAD, who published the same titled book/dvd in 2011. The installations were exhibited in daadgalerie in Berlin as well as at the Schlossplatz, Berlin, between 2009 and 2010, while the electroacoustic compositions were premiered in Berlin, Germany, Brussels, Belgium, and Bourges, France.

First Prize, 5th Biennial Acousmatic Composition Competition in Brussels: Welcome to Hasla

Finalist, 35th Int. Competition of Electroacoustic Music and Sonic/ Bourges, Trivium A, 2nd category (2008): Welcome to Hasla

Musical Commissions at the Institut International de Musique Electroacoustique de Bourges (2009): Painting Nahhamu - Stereo Electroacoustic Music

Hasla consists of electroacoustic compositions that are inspired by a poetry of localization and spatialization of sound. Calmly and transparently, these sounds formulate questions whose answers are delayed, in a kind of tonal dream logic that lends the pieces their tension<br/><br/>The book is published in English and German. The book's contents can be read fully in English as the German sections provide a mirror of the English contents.