2nd Avenuer

I am a musician, but also a magician and a swindler at the same time. In fact, art is half practicing a deception and manipulating the audience. Art is the most deceptive of the deceptive. Art puzzles the audience. Sometimes it creates surreal or fictitious stories that persuade the audience to believe. Evoking a laugh or a cry through stimulating the audience’s emotion is part of an artist’s duty and disposition. A video artist named Nam June Paik, who recently passed, defined a philosophy as the following: “Plato expressed the most profound meaning through words or concepts. St. Augustus thought that sound, auditory sense, expresses the most profound meaning. Spinoza expressed what is the most profound through the sense of sight or visibility. A visual art includes all these three.” I want to define a musical as the synthesized art of all these three. Ultimately I desire to fascinate the audience through an attractive genre, that being, Musicals. As a composer and a writer I have lived my life based on my own principles: stimulation, inspiration, motivation, imagination, and creation. It is only with these principles that I can begin to write the music. It is my wish that ultimately my art will touch the hearts of the common people rather than only my own. Do you know a story about the sun and the wind? Have you heard the saying “the pen is mightier than the sword”? Strong winds and the fearful swords may be able to physically move people but they cannot force people’s emotions to be moved. I, as a magician, want to move their hearts. As an artist, I will be honest to myself. Just as the rising sun warms and comforts a cold soul with its warmth, I too will bring comfort to those who are chased by their busy world and a peace to those who are hurt; I will spend my entire life as one who will always be true to my beliefs and principles and will open the mind of audiences with the warmth of my art.
Check out this video: Elephant "Heart" Pig
Ten-Minute Musical by Sunhee Anna Huh and John G. Kolaziej** Cast: Elephant: Karlan Judd * Pig: Sukari Jones* Hen: Amy Burgess* Musical Direction by Naomi Lee* Directed by Ryan Mekenian @GMTWP, TISCH, NYU DECEMBER 2006