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"Flow," a work by Prof. Chung Ju-hee of JNU's Department of Music, will be performed at the Hanover Museum on August 20 at the invitation of the Hannoverche Gesellschaft für Neue Music in Germany.

Founded in 1987 with the faculty of the Hannover National University of Music, the Hanoverian Association of Contemporary Music is the organization that plays an important role in the development and dissemination of contemporary music in Germany. The association has a long tradition of the Hanoverian National University of Music, founded in 1897. The association has been exploring new ways of expressing the boundaries of traditional art, presenting experimental works by composers around the world.

Prof. Chung's piano piece 'Flow' was composed with inspiration from the Eastern philosophy of yin-yang and the five elements. The theory of yin-yang and the five elements is explaining all things and phenomena in the world with five basic elements. In this work, she interprets this philosophical concept into musical concept.

Chung has consistently created various experimental works based on traditional Korean elements. She presented Variations for Odolttogi, which premiered in Romania in 2014, and Wings of the Wind for Daegeum and Haegeum, inspired by the Jeju folk song Dongpungga, at the Festival of Contemporary Music Happoman 2022. In the same year, she also presented Electronic Music Herbuck's Birth in Taiwan, as well as Jeju's Time and Space IV, a dance and electronic music piece incorporating Jeju labor songs, at the Jeju International Contemporary Music Festival.

On November 2, JNU Prof. Chung Ju-hee will present her new work, "Osaegui Baram(The Wind of Five Colors)", with a performance by Ensemble Handwerk, a prominent German contemporary music organization in Jeju.