CTM x WeSA: Jessica Ekomane, GAZAEBAL
Jessica Ekomane
21:00
GAZAEBAL
22:00
Thila Ground₩33-88
French-born, Berlin-based electronic musician and sound artist Jessica Ekomane creates in the charged spaces between structure and chaos. Her performances unfold like living systems, sound sculpted into shifting architectures of rhythmic perception. Through psychoacoustics and repetition, she creates music that seems to stand still and move at once, inducing a collective, near-ritual sense of release. Each piece becomes a kind of experiment in transformation, of sound into energy and listening into physical sensation.
Her practice extends beyond the stage into installation and spatial sound, where environments themselves become instruments. In 2019, she was among the composers invited by Natascha Süder Happelmann to collaborate on the German Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. Her work has since resonated across continents, presented at venues and festivals including KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin, Ars Electronica in Linz, Dommune in Tokyo, and MUMA in Melbourne.
One of the formative figures in South Korea’s electronic underground, GAZAEBAL's path has moved restlessly between the studio, the club, and the gallery: sound engineer in New York, chart-topping techno producer in London, K-POP provocateur in Seoul, and eventually a media artist pushing technology to its poetic limits.
After working in the late 1990s as an engineer on hip-hop sessions with the Wu-Tang Clan, he returned to Korea and released MULL in 2004, becoming the first Korean artist to top the UK’s techno chart on Tune In. That same restless energy drove the creation of Banana Girl, a K-POP project that blurred underground and mainstream sensibilities with the hit Hip Song, co-produced with Bang Si-hyuk. In 2008, GAZAEBAL co-founded Tacit Group, a media art collective known for turning live coding and algorithmic composition into performance, earning international acclaim.
Reemerging as a solo artist in 2023, he continues to build sound worlds that blur the digital and the human. His recent work UN/Readable Sound, a collision of dystopian game visuals and sonic density, was named Work of the Year by the Arts Council Korea, marking a new phase in a career defined by reinvention.
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.