Jeonghyeon Joo
composer | haegeum performer
Silent Scream (2025)
Silent Scream is a simultaneous screening of four silent horror films from the 1920s, live-scored by an ensemble of soloists. The films are projected onto different hanging surfaces, dividing the space and housing the performers. Each musician is tasked with providing the score for one of the films without responding to any of the other musicians. The audience is invited to wander the space, mixing the audio and video for themselves, choosing or changing their vantage point as they see fit. Part performance, part installation, part haunted house, Silent Scream tests the flexibility of the relationship between sound, screen, and viewer by experimenting with how material can inform a musician’s improvisation and the different ways a sense of ensemble can be created (or destroyed).
directed by Ethan Marks
performed by Jeonghyeon Joo, Michael Matsuno, Miller Wrenn, and
M. A. Harms
presented by Oracle Egg’s BROILER Residency Series
video and audio recorded by Eli Klausner, October 31, 2025