Jaehoon Choi
Organ from Athanasius Kircher's Musurgia universalis (1650)
Jaehoon Choi is a New York City based artist focused on novel musical instrument making and a scholar interrogating a broader notion of organology.
Instruments
Brushing Interface2021 ~ ongoing
Hand Brush Controller2023 ~ ongoing
Granulator & Particle Instrument2023 ~ ongoing
Sonic Skating (Collaborative/Collective Project)2025 ~ ongoing
Feedback Instrument2019 ~ ongoing
Watch Instrument2023
Writings
Journal
Choi, Jaehoon. “Media Specificity in Novel Musical Instrument Making : An Inverted Perspective,” ECHO, a journal of music, thought and technology, Issue 8, forthcoming 2026.
Book Chapter
Choi, Jaehoon. "Max - Expansion From a Programming Paradigm to a Community Discourse," The Routledge Handbook to Rethinking the History of Technology-based Music, edited by Jøran Rudi and Monty Adkins, Routledge, 2025. [link]
Conference
Choi, Jaehoon. “The Media Materiality of Max: Rhizomatic Organology and the Genealogy of Abstractions,” in PdMaxCon, 2025. [link1] [link2]
Choi, Jaehoon. “Brushing Interface - DIY multi-touch interface for expressive gestural performance,” in Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression, 2023. [link]
Others
Choi, Jaehoon. “Formulating a Unique Conception of Technics through the Brushing Project” PhD dissertation, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2026. [link]
Choi, Jaehoon. “Drifting: Integrating Embodied Practice and Making As a Compositional Process,” Performance Philosophy 8(1): ECHO #5, 2023. [link]
Choi, Jaehoon. "Brushing II," ECHO, a journal of music, thought and technology, Issue 3, 2022 [link]
News
2026.07Sonic Skating project, a collective sound performance project, was awarded the LMCC 2026 Manhattan Arts Grant
2026.07Sonic Skating project, a collective sound performance project, was awarded the Brooklyn Arts Fund from Brooklyn Arts Council
2026.04Will be performing for the CLEAT Series at Elastic Space in Chicago!
2026.04Was invited for a guest lecture at Stephan Moore's Digital Musical Instrument Design class at Northwestern University