Teum (the Silvery Slit) is, as the title suggests, an overture, an opening to the game of multiplications, fragmentations, duplications. But it is also the opening understood as the void that blossoms between two borders, a break from which escapes a double tension, both the pulling force of these two edges which move apart and the opposite force of reconciliation, of compression. Okkyung Lee invites us to a truly telluric moment, a rare moment of expression where tectonic movements and shear stresses become music. If the earthquakes were, as we thought in the 18th century, due to underground thunderstorms, there is no doubt that this piece of music, both celestial and continental, could have been their audible manifestation.

Text by François Bonnet

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Okkyung Lee
Teum (the Silvery Slit)
2019 / 20’03
Performed, recorded and composed by Okkyung Lee (ASCAP)
Mixed by Lasse Marhaug
Mastered by Guuseppe Ielasi
Photo by Lasse Marhaug
Part of Re-Imagine Europe, co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.



Sleeve design by Stephen O’Malley


Released in association with Editions Mego.
Coordination GRM: François Bonnet, Jules Négrier
Executive Production: Peter Rehberg