gamin is a Korean born US based multi-instrumentalist specialized for traditional Korean wind. She tours the world performing both traditional Korean music and cross-disciplinary collaborations. She is a scholar and designated Yisuja, official holder of Korea’s Important Intangible Cultural Asset No. 46.

From 2000 to 2010, gamin was the principal player at the National Gugak Orchestra.  gamin has received several cultural exchange program grants, including Artist-in-Residence at the Asian Cultural Council, and has collaborated in cross-cultural improvisation with world-acclaimed musicians, presenting premieres at Roulette Theater, New School, and Metropolitan Museum. gamin was featured artist at the Silkroad concert, Seoul, 2018, performing on-stage with the founder, Yo-Yo Ma.

Since 2018, gamin curated performances at the Center for Remembering and Sharing. For 2020, gamin was selected as artist-in-residency at the HERE Arts Center, NYC, and her album ‘Nong’ was released by Innova Records. gamin’s Carnegie Hall solo début, accompanied by Nangye Gugak Orchestra, scheduled for March 2020, was postponed by Covid 19. For 2021-2023, gamin was awarded the prestigious Fellowship by Jerome Hill Foundation and Howard Foundation.

Since 2022, gamin has been teaching undergraduate and graduate courses at UCLA’s Department of Ethnomusicology, where she serves as the Director of the Korean Music Program. Her courses include Music of Korea, Open Ensemble: Cultures in Musical Dialogue, and academic course, Global Dynamics of K-pop.

Elizabeth Hoffman, composer (NYC), works in acoustic, electroacoustic, and computer media, and has created collaborative projects with performers including Ivan Goff, Jane Rigler, Margaret Lancaster, gamin, Marianne Gythfeldt, Elena Demyanenko, String Noise, Azalea Twining, and a recent work for Glass Farm Ensemble’s Nieuw Amsterdam – New York album on Innova. Elizabeth teaches in NYU’s Arts and Science Music Department. Her electroacoustic music is published by Empreintes DIGITALes. She has received Bourges, Prix Ars, Pierre Schaeffer, and Sonic Circuits prizes; and MacDowell, NEA, Seattle Arts Commission, and Jerome Foundation grants and an International Computer Music Association commission. Her interactive music connects computer processes to acoustic instruments in textural, tuning, and spatial explorations, or algorithmic application as in a permanent installation in Bobst Library Atrium. Her interest in feminist re-tellings and in the imprint of society on subjectivity, in dialogue and intervention through music, is a long-standing focus. She is also a pianist.

Christine Yerie Lee is a multidisciplinary artist working in video, performance, and drawing. Raised in the American South, Lee’s practice explores performativity, embodiment, and spectatorship as a way to reexamine ideas of authenticity, nationhood, and desire in relation to self-construction. Drawing from Korean and American folklore, global histories, and pop culture, she builds interconnected worlds where fantasy and reality collide, creating a new place for cultural, psychological, and socio-political discovery. Her recent projects include BUL (2023), an experimental rock opera inspired by the Korean monster Bulgasari, and its sequel SWAN SONG (2025). She lives and works in Los Angeles with her dog Belly. 

Lee holds a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts. Her work has been shown in solo and two-person exhibitions at Human Resources LA, GOBI, Y2K Group (NYC), and Centre Culturel Jean Cocteau (France), and in group shows at UCLA New Wight Gallery, Helen J. Gallery, ICA LA, Museum of Impossible Forms (Finland), REDCAT, and Metro Art Los Angeles. She has been an artist-in-residence at Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Centre Culturel Jean Cocteau, Heart of Los Angeles, and Crosstown Arts, and is a recipient of the College Art Association’s Visual Arts Fellowship. Lee has taught video art at CalArts, CSU Long Beach, Pomona College, and Pitzer College.

Kai-Luen Liang is a sound and video artist, musician, and music producer based in Los Angeles. His sound is a mixture of field recordings, improvisation, home made software systems, and electronic elements. He is currently adjunct teaching faculty at California Institute of the Arts where he teaches Music Technology and Integrated Media, as well as a visiting professor of Music at Occidental College teaching Music and AI.