Contemporary Sound Crew CSC to present fusion art at CKL Stage

Contemporary Sound Crew CSC will present the fusion art performance ‘Intaking & Overflowing’ at CKL Stage on Saturday, November 14, 2026. Selected as a 2026 Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture arts creation support project, the show combines music, video, stage play, and dance to explore human perception in the digital age.

Every day, we intake vast amounts of information and pour it back out. We live in an era where news, images, and sounds constantly surge through smartphones and digital media, making it difficult to judge what is truth and what is distorted information. In a modern society overflowing with information, how are human senses and perceptions changing?

Intaking Overflowing poster - © Hyundai Culture

The contemporary music creation group Contemporary Sound Crew CSC will hold the fusion art performance ‘Intaking & Overflowing’ at CKL Stage at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, November 14, 2026.

Selected as a 2026 Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture arts creation support project, this performance explores the possibilities of new performing arts by combining music, video, stage play, and dance, themed around the acceptance and excess of information in the digital age and the resulting changes in human sensation and perception.

In particular, the performance is expected to present a three-dimensional artistic experience where auditory, visual, and movement elements influence one another by combining the acoustic sounds of double bass and alto flute, live electronics, real-time video and animation, and the physical expressions of actors and dancers on a single stage.

The title ‘Intaking & Overflowing’ refers to the act of constantly receiving information and the phenomenon of that information overflowing. Today, digital media is rapidly changing human daily life, ways of thinking, senses, and forms of communication. While we have gained access to much more information than before, we are simultaneously placed in a complex environment where we must judge the authenticity and meaning of that information ourselves. This project extends these social realities into artistic questions.

In the process where information is constantly flowing in and being reproduced, what do humans choose, what do they remember, and what do they accept as truth? Furthermore, in a situation where technology influences our senses and actions, how can human freedom and autonomy be maintained?

Rather than providing a single answer to these questions, ‘Intaking & Overflowing’ aims to provide an experience where the audience can sense and think for themselves through music, visual arts, and physical movement.

Notably, this performance is structured to deviate from traditional concert formats, allowing sound, video, and the performers' movements to relate to one another to form the meaning of the work.

The first piece of the performance is ‘Double Mirror’ by composer Lee Cheol. A work for double bass, real-time video, and live electronics, it begins with the process of the performer's image on stage being captured by a camera and projected onto a screen.

While the performer's movements are reproduced as real-time video, the entity on the screen does not remain merely a mirror reflecting reality. Through recording, playback, and real-time editing and transformation, the video appears as another self existing in a different time and space from the actual performer. The work poses questions about human identity and existence through this relationship between reality and digital images. The process in which the performer on stage and the image on the screen influence each other, blurring the boundary between the real and the virtual, evokes the new form of self experienced in the digital age.

This piece, which combines the deep resonance of the double bass with electronic sounds and real-time video, will be performed by double bassist Park No-ik. This will be followed by ‘The Dance of Life’ by composer Lee Yu-jeong.

A work for double bass, live electronics, and live animation, it explores the relationship between music and physical movement. This piece takes the rhythms already existing within humans as its musical starting point. The various rhythms created by the body—such as breathing, pulse, changes in strength, and the speed of movement—manifest in different forms for each performer, and the music gains new possibilities of expression through these movements and sensations. In this work, as the generation and transformation of digital sounds occur in real time, the sound and the performer's movements influence each other to form a single musical flow.

With the addition of live animation, the piece presents a new form of performance where music, movement, and video are interconnected.

The subsequent piece, ‘Doll’ by Ju Si-yeol, is a work for performer and live electronics. This work begins with questions regarding human freedom and autonomy in a modern society controlled by data and technology. While we believe we live by judging and choosing for ourselves, we actually live under the influence of numerous pieces of information, social structures, and technological systems.

The work expresses this situation through the symbolic existence of a doll. A doll is a being moved by external forces, yet it also appears to possess an independent will through its own movements. This paradoxical relationship leads to the question of how free human actions and choices truly are. Combining the physical expression of dancer Choi Min-seon with live electronics, this work reveals the complex relationship between human autonomy and control, will, and external influence on stage.

The final piece of the performance is ‘InfoMAXIMUM’ by composer Jeong Min-gyu.

A work for actor, alto flute, and live electronics, it explores how language and meaning change in an era where information is overproduced and overconsumed. The title of the work combines "Information" and "Maximum," symbolizing the state of information excess faced in modern society. In the work, language does not conclude as a single complete sentence. Words are repeated, separated, and mixed, sometimes leaving only their own sounds.

In this process, the listener experiences the physical characteristics of language existing as sound, rather than understanding the meaning conveyed by the language. The work musically expresses the paradox of modern society, where it becomes harder to grasp meaning as information becomes excessive. In particular, the speech of the actor, the sound of the alto flute, and electronic sounds intersect to explore the boundaries between language and music, and information and sound. This stage, featuring actor Yoo Hwi-jeo and alto flutist Oh Byeong-cheol, poses a question to the audience: whether an increase in the amount of information necessarily leads to a depth of understanding.

A combination of contemporary music and media art... possibilities for new performing arts

In this performance, media art also plays an important role alongside music.

Media artist Lee Min-jeong constructs a visual environment where sound, video, and the performer's movements are organically connected within a single performance. On this stage, the video does not remain merely a background assisting the music, but functions as an independent artistic element that forms the meaning of the work together with the music. The images and videos that change in real time, along with electronic sounds and physical movements, will react to and influence each other, providing the audience with a sensory experience different from conventional concerts.

In particular, the combination of live electronics and real-time video technology is noteworthy in that it shows the relationship between sounds and images that are generated and change at every moment.

Contemporary Sound Crew CSC explores contemporary sensibilities through music

Contemporary Sound Crew CSC is a contemporary music creation group founded in Seoul in October 2024.

Formed to implement fresh and innovative contemporary sounds, CSC, true to its name 'Contemporary,' explores new creative methods and artistic experiences beyond traditional contemporary music forms.

In particular, composers, performers, media artists, and artists from various fields have collaborated to seek new performance forms that combine music, video, and physical movement.

This ‘Intaking & Overflowing’ is a project that demonstrates such artistic direction of CSC, unraveling the theme of the information environment in modern society through musical experimentation and the form of convergence art.

The project involves composers Lee Cheol, Lee Yu-jeong, Ju Si-yeol, and Jeong Min-gyu, and is joined by double bassist Park No-ik, alto flutist Oh Byeong-cheol, actor Yoo Hwi-jeo, dancer Choi Min-seon, and media artist Lee Min-jeong.

Music director Lee Sang-bin, video Jang Seok-hyeon, lighting Lee Gyu-ho, and stage director Kwon Gwang-gi will enhance the quality of the performance.

With the advancement of digital technology, we have become able to receive and share much more information more quickly than before. However, in that process, we are facing an era where we must rethink the meaning of human senses, perception, and free choice.

‘Intaking & Overflowing’ is a performance that explores the questions contemporary music can pose amidst these changes.

This stage, which combines music and theater, dance and media art, is expected to provide the audience with a special time to reflect on their own senses and perceptions amidst the flood of information.

The performance will be held on Saturday, November 14 at 7:30 PM at CKL Stage, and reservations are available through NOL Ticket. For performance inquiries, please call Hyundai Culture Planning.

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