Name: Hot Cat 31: Youjin Sung / Bo-Sung Kim / Francis Heery / Fumio Okura
Start: 2025-11-04T19:30:00+01:00
Location: exploratorium berlin, STUDIO 1, Zossener Straße 24, 10961 Berlin

$Hot Cat 31: Youjin Sung \/ Bo-Sung Kim \/ Francis Heery \/ Fumio Okura$

Hot Cat 31
Youjin Sung (Gayageum : Korean Zither)
Bo-Sung Kim (Korean Percussion)
Francis Heery (Electronics）
Fumio Okura (Violin)
Exquisite sounds with the International Top-Players!!
Don't miss this Rare Opportunity!!
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Tuesday, 04. November 2025
Door 19:00: Concert 19:30
Exploratorium Berlin, STUDIO 1
Zossener Straße 24, 10961 Berlin-Kreuzberg (U7 Gneisenaustraße)
※The Concert will take place in "STUDIO 1", (NOT in "Saal : Large Hall") !!
Come in from the Main Entrance (Restaurant with the Sign "Exploratorium Berlin") and follow the Sign "Hot Cat 31".

----- The Artists Tonight -----
::: Youjin Sung (Gayageum : Korean Zither)
Youjin Sung is a gayageum (Korean traditional instrument) player who constantly tries experimental work through collaborations with artists from various fields, both traditional and modern.
As a performer, she believes that improvisational music contains the most natural and active aspects of herself, and she usually thinks it is important to spend time thinking about how much she can express her identity.

::: Bo-Sung Kim (Korean Percussion)
Born in Seoul, South Korea, and grew up in Berlin.
As a child, she discovered her passion for Korean percussion and, after finishing school, went to Korea to study Korean Traditional Performing Arts at the Korean National University of Arts in Seoul, specialising in percussion, mask dance and shamanic ritual music.
Bo-Sung Kim plays in various formations, such as Song of Mu and the Ensemble Ay, two bands which explore new worlds of sound through free improvisation; the Ensemble GaMuAk, which performs traditional Korean music and dance repertoires; the Ensemble INklang, which develops new interpretations of traditional Korean music in a contemporary context; and the Ensemble ~su. She is currently working intensively with musicians such as Matthias Mainz, Oliver Potratz, Peter Ehwald, Sol-I So, Laura Robles, Gunda Gottschalk, Saadet Türköz, Ute Völker and others.

::: Francis Heery (Electronics)
Francis Heery (b.1980) is an improviser, composer and sound artist. His music is inspired by science-fiction, occult philosophies and bio-aesthetics.
His instrumental works have been performed by the RTE Symphony Orchestra, the Crash Ensemble, the Quiet Music Ensemble, the Talujon Percussion Ensemble and by soloists including Carin Levine, Pascal Galois, Izumi Kimura and Shane Latimer.
He has received funding awards from the Arts Council of Ireland as well as commissions from Galway County and City Councils, the Music Current Festival, the Berlin Natural History Museum, and the Berlin International Sound Art Festival.
He produces experimental electronica under the name The Cube of Unknowing, with albums released on Fort Evil Fruit, Eiderdown Records and Library Of The Occult.

::: Fumio Okura (Violin, Organization)
Studied Violin, Conducting and Musicology in Tokyo and Berlin. Studied Conducting further with Prof. Peter Eötvös and was also the Guest Student at Staatsoper Berlin. He also works as a Voice Actor. In parallel with strong interest in Music and Theater he pursues the Sound Possibilities of the instrumental combinations with various styles and backgrounds. Furthermore, his project "Hot Cat" tries the Integrated Arts with Experimental Music and Film, Live Painting, Performance or Butoh-Dance.
In 2023 the CD of String Quartet "Your Dramatic Joy" was released
https://ernestorodrigues.bandcamp.com/album/your-dramatic-joy
In 2024 he played in various concerts in Tokyo.