PARK Minha

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PARK Minha

Participating Project	Exchange Residency Program (Creators from abroad)
Activity Based	Seoul
City / Place stayed	Tokyo
Period	2025.5 - 2025.7

Purpose of the residency

Park’s residency project in Tokyo expands her ongoing exploration of cosmic and non-human sound. As in her previous work eek (2021), which reimagined the Voyager Golden Records (1977), she now turns her attention to vibrations of the earth that are imperceptible to humans. By working with seismic data and collaborating with local archives and experimental sound communities in Tokyo, she aims to produce tape-based audio works and visual scores.

Plan during the residency

• Connect with experimental and noise musicians in Tokyo for research and exchange
  
• Collaborate with institutions to access seismic and ground vibration data
• Develop a short fiction based on the sound research
  
• Develop a visual score based on the sound research
• Create sound works (experimental phase)

Activities during the residency

During the TOKAS residency, I conducted pre-production research for the sound project On Trembling: Facing Chaos. Starting with scientific simulation data that visualizes seismic waves and vibrations normally imperceptible to humans, I explored the unconscious of the earth. To expand this concept, I examined ritual and folk music from Japan and East Asia, which historically served as tactics to confront earthquakes and natural disasters before the rise of science. I also studied recent seismographic data as a form of vibrational archive or a hypothesized soundscape of the nonhuman world, experimenting with ways of translating the earth’s seismic records into sound through computer programming. In parallel, I exchanged ideas with Japanese artists and writers working on related themes, envisioning possible future collaborations.

Outcome of the residency

Thanks to connections facilitated by TOKAS, I met curators from the Museums, as well as sound artists and visual artists based in Japan. Due to time and other constraints, I had limited opportunities to meet scientists directly or visit geological research centers. However, I was able to discuss more concrete collaboration with some of the sound artists. If funding and production conditions allow, I look forward to collaborating with the artists I met during the residency on this site-specific sound collaboration piece in the future.

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