CTM x WeSA: Jan St. Werner, Sara Persico
Jan St. Werner
21:00
Sara Persico
22:00
Thila Ground₩33-88
Jan St. Werner is a critically acclaimed composer and improviser whose work explores the intersection of sound, space, and architecture. In a myriad of ways – as a solo artist, a collaborator, through his group Mouse On Mars, as a producer, as a lecturer at MIT, or as a professor of Dynamic Acoustic Research at the Academy of Fine Arts, Nuremburg, or most recently as the new artistic director of the Folkwang Pop Institute in Essen - Werner has challenged traditional approaches to creating and experiencing music. His solo performances explore the phenomenon of sound as well as acoustic space as anarchic and highly sensitive material, using electronic sound generators and custom built movable speaker objects.
The Berlin-based sound artist, vocalist, and DJ Sara Persico cut her teeth on the fringes of Naples’s underground noise scene, developing a language that fuses her voice with analog electronics, field recordings, and samples. Out on Subtext, Persico’s latest album Sphaîra maps a psychogeographic portrait of The Rachid Karami International Fair in Tripoli, Lebanon, a large-scale modernist exhibition complex designed by Oscar Niemeyer in the mid 1900s. Acoustically sounding the building’s impressive central dome, Persico comes into dialogue with the architecture, history, and unique soundscape of the space which resonates into the present as a monument to the modernist era that still casts a shadow on the region and the contemporary world.
Supported by the Korean Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, and KOFICE as part of Kore·A·Round Culture 2025, and by Goethe-Institut Seoul.