wo is your home

wo is your home (2023), Sol-i So

Installation and performance, 30 min.

Composer and singer Sol-i So combines consciously as well as unconsciously various cultural influences, which have been shaped by her biography and encounters, to create her own musical language that defies classification. In four compositions, Sino-Korean traditions meet K-pop, Central European folk music meets soul, and English poems meet Asian musical philosophy. By placing unfamiliar and familiar sounds in relation to each other and bridging contrasts, So manages to make different voices audible. Sol-i would like to thank the German, Korean, Hindu, Tamil, English, American, African-American, Italian, and Swiss people – all those whose culture, which they have lovingly shared, lives on.

Performer

Merit Ariane – Voice

Cansu Tanrikulu – Voice Sol-i So – Voice

Bo-Sung Kim – Percussion

Halym Kim – Percussion

Tracklist

00:00 ja!

05:25 seongdok

08:55 wa

12:22 after you, i learned to plant a poem, grow a song

Credits

Date: 29.02.2024 Location: Akademie der Künste, Berlin

Organizer: Junge Akademie – Akademie der Künste

Visual Art: Soyoung Park

Recording: Martha Knabe, Jacqueline Butzinger

Mixing: Beat Halberschmidt

Video: Beat Halberschmidt

Song Text (Poem) for “after you, i learned to plant a poem, grow a song”: Avrina Prabala-Joslin

Composition: Sol-i So

Thanks to Emilie Scholten, Haus für Poesie, University of Copenhagen, The Studio for Electroacoustic Music – Akademie der Künste Berlin, Musikfonds