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
2026.08My piece 奇夢 - 기몽 will be played for the Festival Supersonique 2026 at GMEM le Module, Marseille, France.
2026.08I will be participating in the inaugural TAK LAB by TAK Ensemble in the Expanded Practice and Creative Technologies (EPCT) track.
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