ICMC BOSTON 2025
Online Listening Room
Curiosity, Play, Innovation - A 50th Anniversary Celebration of Creativity in Music, Science, and Technology
June 8-14, 2025
ICMC BOSTON 2025: Online Listening Room #3
ID#: 388
Foxfire (2022-2023) ; 7:00
by Sang Mi Ahn
Yonsei University
Foxfire is the natural glow created by certain forest fungi. The ‘fox’ in foxfire may be derived from the Old French word, faux, meaning ‘false.’ The work consists of two parts, and each of them presents footsteps as a role of symbolism. The first appearance of the footsteps describes an admirer of nature’s wonders— discovering the bioluminescence in the forest and appreciating the orchestrated soundscape of nature. The second appearance of footsteps symbolizes a destructive force in the natural environment. I imagined the timbres of the birds singing changed, and the soundless nature screamed in response to the pollution caused by humans. The work is a reminder for me of the role I could take, and I hope it does the same thing for the listener.
Sang Mi Ahn
Sang Mi Ahn is a composer who wants to bring the invisible into the listener’s perspectives. Her blend of electronic and acoustic works have garnered awards, including the Indiana University Dean’s Prize in Composition, the Heckscher International Composition Prize, the Republic of Korea Composition Prize, the Judith Lang Zaimont Prize at the Competition of The International Alliance for Women in Music, and the winner of the Women Composers Festival of Hartford International Composition Competition. Her compositions have been featured in festivals and conferences, including ICMC, ACMC, SEAMUS, Symposium on Acoustic Ecology, SiMN, eviMus Festival, Ole.01 Festival, Journées Art & Science Days, USAP (Urban Solar Audio Plant)@C60 Collaboratorium, N_SEME, MUSLAB, London New Wind Festival, the CSUF New Music Festival, the Sweet Thunder Festival of Electro-Acoustic Music, UNK New Music Festival, The Boston New Music Initiative Concert, The Applause Music Concert Series, ÆPEX Contemporary Performance, Metanast at MediaCityUK, the Studio 300 Digital Art and Music Festival, Midwest Composers Symposium, Americas Society, the World Saxophone Congress, the International Trumpet Guild Conference, the International Clarinet Association’s New Music Weekend, the North American Saxophone Alliance Biennial Conference, The Symposium on Spatial Sound Arts, Seoul, and the International Experimental Film-Video Festival in Seoul. Ahn completed a Doctor of Music degree in Composition from Indiana University, where she also earned her Master of Music in Composition and served as an Associate Instructor in Music Theory. She has taught composition at Korea National University of Arts and is currently a Lecturer in Composition at Yonsei University, South Korea.
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