● Nori for 18-string Gayageum(2022)
Music Composer : Hippocrates Cheng
18-String Gayageum : Eunsun Sunny Jung
● Lullaby for Gayageum and Electronics (2021)
Music Composer : Yu-Seok Seol
12-String Gayageum : Eunsun Sunny Jung
Electronics : Yu-Seok Seol
*가야금과 전자음향을 위한 자장가
가야금과 전자음향을 위한 곡 자장가(Lullaby)는, 전통적인 산조가야금에서 나오는 소리를 컴퓨터를 이용해 변환시키고 비틀어 보자는 아이디어에서 출발했다. 곡에는 두 가지의 상반된 장면(image, 상)이 교대로 나온다. 첫 번째 장면은 자장가라는 제목에 맞게 가야금이 흔들의자가 흔들거리는 듯 같은 음형을 반복하며 흐른다. 그 동안 컴퓨터는 가야금 소리를 변화시켜 몽환적이고 약간은 어지러운 분위기를 만들어 내며 뒤틀린 심연으로 가라앉는 듯한 인상을 낸다. 다른 장면에서는 소음소리를 배경으로 디스토션(distortion , 왜곡, 일그러짐) 이펙트가 적용된 듯한 가야금이 다소 혼란스러우면서도 경쾌한 분위기를 내며 리드미컬하게 나아간다.
● Conversation in Sound (2019)
Music Composer : Hippocrates Cheng
https://www.facebook.com/chingnam.cheng
12-String Gayageum : Eunsun Sunny Jung
Pipa : Yuan Zheng
Conductor : Hippocrates Cheng
● Ripples(2017,rev.2019)
Music Composer : Jihyun Kim (jk53@rice.edu)
12-String Gayageum : Eunsun Sunny Jung
Violin : Yena Lee
Viola : Tonya Burton
Cello : Kacee Dugas
Cello : Jaeyoung Chong
Conductor : Jihyun Kim
In this piece, I would like to depict ripples on the water surface. The unique timbre of gayageum reminds me of an initial state of ripples. In this piece, the gayageum sound gradually is expanded to the other string instruments. -Note by Jihyun Kim
● Duri-nuri (2018)
Music Composer : Beomseok Yoo (beyoo2001@naver.com)
25-String Gayageum : Eunsun Sunny Jung
Violin : Jieum Yoo
Viola : Mary Eunkyung Chang
Cello : John Jooyoung Yang
As a dictionary definition in Korean, 'Duri' means two numbers. And, 'Nuri' means the world. The combination of these words is the title 'Duri-Nuri' that is written in hopes of a world in which the two of them live together. That is why I made the title with the hope of coexistence, completion, and peace of the divided things. While the Western musical instruments, the sting instruments and the traditional Korean instrument, Gayageum, are different in their use and the way they played, however, I tried to express the combination of differences with the joy of musical expression and harmony.
● Sunkyo Obligato for Gayageum and Harp (2018)
Music Composer : Caroline KyungA Ahn
http://www.carolineahncomposer.com
25-String Gayageum : Eunsun Sunny Jung
Harp : Heaven Fan
In the summer of 2018, visit to my beloved country South Korea brought me many great ideas and insights as a composer. Among many beautiful things that I saw in Korea, I was especially stunned by the beauty of this one place called SunkyoChang where it used to be vacation place for King Sejong who lived 700 years ago in Chosen and invented Korean alphabet. SunkyoChang was a private leisure place where King Sejong and his family could come and rest from his busy work similar to camp David. SunkyoChang's every part of the property was mix of elegant lines and designs with purpose. I was thinking that we should not only keep the beauty of this architecture to ourselves but to let the world know what an amazing culture and tradition we embrace! I felt as if I was hearing a music that combines both Korean and Western cultures while being mesmerized by the beauty of SunkyoChang. The unique Korean tradition is ready to be presented to different countries and people.
● Dong (2018)
Music Composer : Kyungjin Han (hankj7@daum.net)
25-String Gayageum : Eunsun Sunny Jung
Dong for 25-string Gayageum was written for 25-string gayageum and "Dong" means movement. The structure of this work consists of sections which show different expressive gestures. The motivic and melodic material of these gestures was derived and
transformed from Korean folk song known as "Sae-ya,Sae-ya (oh,Bird! Bird!)".
● 소리 -Sound-(2016)
Music Composer : Ara Cho (soldam35@hanmail.net)
25- String Gayageum : Eunsun Sunny Jung
Commissioned by EunSun Jung in 2016, this work was written for a 25-string gayageum.
As the title suggests, the composition is full of a variety of sounds that can be created by the instrument.
The piece itself consists of multiple sections with a distinctive musical idea. Each section calls for the various performance techniques, motions, gestures, or breaths from the performer.
Also, the piece attempts to explore the timbral possibilities available from the 25-string gayaguem. As one of the examples, the performer persistently plays the same pitch over and over, but changes the way of using the left-hand each time to create varied effects of the lingering sound. Therefore, we can hear different lengths, degrees, and shapes of the vibratos emerging out of the single pitch.
● Milyang for 25-string gayageum (2014)
Music Composer : Heeyung Yang (HeeyoungYang@gmail.com)
25-String Gayageum : Eunsun Sunny Jung
"Milyang" is comprised with introduction and five variations and a main theme at the end of the piece. It is based on the Korean folk tune Milyang Arirang. Unlike other variation pieces, it presents the main theme at the end in an attempt to increase expectation and induce one's imagination as the audience listens to the entire piece from the introduction and variations. It is originally composed for the Sejong Music Competition held in Chicago in 2008 and revised for Gayageum in 2014.
● Tondollari - Theme and Variations (2012)
Music Composer : Bo Hyon Kim
Guitar : Udro
25-String Gayageum : Eunsun Sunny Jung
Known to us as one of a few existing folk songs from North Korea, Tondollari(With the Dawn) is said to have originated in Pukchon, Hamkyoung Province. Since after the Korean War in 1953, this light-hearted and upbeat song has veen used to accompany a variety of folk dances in North Korea - a contrast to the slow,subtle, and moving dances in the South. Taking this simple eight-measure song with the refrain section of "tondollari - rillariyo" as a theme, a composer, Bo-Hyon Kim (from South Korea), eagerly composed the variations for 25-string Kayagum creating tuneful melodies suitable to the instrument's unique technical potential.
● Poverty to Liberty (2011)
Music Composer & Masmsp audio : Eunsuk Baek
Maxmsp video : James Stewart
25-String Gayageum : Eunsun Sunny Jung