연구소장

Director

계희승 Hee Seng Kye

계희승 Hee Seng Kye

Email: hskye@hanyang.ac.kr
Homepage: undoingmusicology.com
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계희승은 미국 줄리아드 스쿨, 뉴욕시립대 퀸스컬리지에서 작곡을 전공하고, 홍콩대학교에서 모차르트 오페라 연구로 음악학 박사학위를 받았다. 음악이론, 분석 방법론, 음악적 청취의 윤리를 주로 연구하면서, 질병과 장애, 죽음의 음악문화사 서술에 집중하고 있다. 서울대학교, 연세대학교, 한국예술종합학교 등에서 강의했고, 한양대학교 음악연구소 전임연구원을 거쳐 현재 한양대학교 음악대학 작곡과 부교수 및 음악연구소장으로 재직 중이다. 2018년부터 매주 KBS 클래식FM 〈KBS 음악실〉 ‘계희승의 음악 허물기’ 코너에 출연해 작품 가득한 ‘상상의 박물관’에서 탈출하는 데 힘쓰고 있다.

Hee Seng Kye is Associate Professor of Musicology and Director of the Music Research Center at Hanyang University in Seoul, Korea. He studied composition with Milton Babbitt at The Juilliard School (B.M.) and completed an M.A. at Queens College, City University of New York, before earning a Ph.D. in musicology from The University of Hong Kong. His research addresses music theory, analytical methodology, and the ethics of musical listening. His work is forthcoming in the BACH: Journal of the Riemenschneider Bach Institute, the Routledge Handbook on Music and Posthumanism, and other venues. He is completing a monograph on music in relation to disease, disability, and death.

Selected Publications

Book Chapters
  • 2025(공저).『듣기의 철학: 우리는 무엇을 듣고 듣지 않는가』. 서울: 곰출판.
    • “코로나19 시대, 격리된 세계에서 듣기의 쓸모.” pp. 173~95.
    • “e멋진 신세계: 게임을 ‘연주’하다.” pp. 197~227.
Articles
  • Under Review. “Listening as Exposure: Illness, Involuntary Negativity, and the Limits of Aesthetic Choice.” In Music and Sound in Negative Aesthetics and Metaphysics: East and West, edited by Maurice Windleburn, Keri Hui, and Jonathan W. Johnson. Edinburgh University Press.
  • Forthcoming. “Spirituality after Damage: Auditory Anamnesis and the Posthuman Musical Body.” In Routledge Handbook in Posthuman Perspectives on Music and Spirituality, edited by Zoey Cochran and Ariane Couture.
  • 2027. “What Do We Listen For? Bach as a Stress Test for the ‘New Theory’ and the Ethics of Microtheoretical Listening.” BACH: Journal of the Riemenschneider Bach Institute, special issue edited by Christina Fuhrmann and Vasili Byros.
  • 2026. “고전주의 형식의 탄생: 카를 체르니의 『실천적 작곡 기법』은 어떻게 19세기 소나타 형식을 ‘구축’했는가.” 『음악논단』 55.
  • 2023. “지속가능발전목표 달성을 위한 공개음악학.” 『한국예술연구』 41, pp. 33~46.
  • 2023(공저). “매개된 소리의 시간: 계몽주의 시대 오케스트라(Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment)의 뮤직비디오를 중심으로.” 『이화음악논집』 27/2, pp. 145~176.
  • 2022. “‘베토벤 계속 들어야 해?’ 영화 《헌트》의 수사적 질문에 대한 음악학자의 변(辯).” 『음악논단』 47, pp. 1~26.
  • 2018(공저). “Excavating the History of Electroacoustic Music in Korea, 1966–2016.” Contemporary Music Review 37/1–2, pp. 174–87. Reprinted in Electroacoustic Music in East Asia, edited by Marc Battier and Kenneth Fields. London: Routledge, 2020, 172~85.

Selected Conference Papers

  • 2026.08. “The Constancy of Music: Distorted Memory and ‘Will/Can the Circle Be Unbroken’ in BioShock Infinite.” Ludo2026. Edge Hill University, United Kingdom. August 6–8.
  • 2026.07. “Timbre as Exposure: Fragility, Proximity, and the Audibility of the Body.” The 4th International Conference on Timbre. University of Montreal, Canada. July 2–4.
  • 2026.06. “On-Stage, Backstage: Sonic Cartography and the Exposed Architecture of Theme Park Sound in HBO’s Westworld.” Sonic Cartographies: Mapping Music and Sound in Theme Parks. Royal Holloway University of London, United Kingdom. Zoom, June 18–20.
  • 2026.06. “What Do We Listen For? Bach as a Stress Test for the ‘New Theory.’” Hong Kong as Music Theory Conference. Hong Kong Association of Music Theorists. The University of Hong Kong. June 12–13.
  • 2026.06. “Teaching Music History through Disease, Disability, and Suffering: Open-Source Collaborative Knowledge Building.” 2026 Teaching Music History Conference, AMS Pedagogy Study Group. New York University. Zoom, June 5–7.
  • 2026.05. “Sounding Danger: Heuristics of Fear from Ottoman Drums to Digital Worlds.” Listening to Fear: Music, Emotion, and Crisis in Eurasia, 1550–1750. University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Austria. May 6–8.
  • 2026.04. “Constructing Pitch-Centricity: Analytical Operations as Constitutive Acts.” Tonality and Pitch-Centricity: Analytical Challenges in Post-War Western Art Music. Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal. Zoom, April 23–24.
  • 2024.11. “Echoes of the Otherworld: Korean Shamanic Soundscapes in Contemporary Cinema.” IV International Conference Rethinking Soundscapes: Traditions, Communities and Heritage, 4th Meeting of the ICTMD National Committee – Portugal. University of Évora, Portugal. November 27–29.
  • 2022.10. “‘It’s sound! Stay silent, stay alive’: An Acoustemology of Howling in A Quiet Place.” The 6th Biennial Conference of the East Asian Regional Association of IMS. Daegu, Korea, October 21–23, 2022.
  • 2022.10. “Rethinking Music in the Metaverse: The Sound of the Mise en Abyme in aespa’s Songs” in Panel Session, “Korean Sounds Shared with the World.” The 11th World Congress of Korean Studies, The Academy of Korean Studies. October 20–21.
  • 2022.04. “Mixtape, Walkman, and Generation X: Tracing Nostalgia in Guardians of the Galaxy.” Differentiating Sound Studies, Hanyang University. Zoom, April 15-16.
  • 2022.03. “The Waesaek Controversies, or the Sound of Modernity in Park Chan-wook’s The Handmaiden” in Organized Panel Session, “Tempting Tunes: The Soundscape of South Korean Popular Culture.” AAS 2022 Annual Conference. Honolulu, Hawai’i, March 24–27, 2022.
  • 2021.10. “Hymn, Lullaby, and ‘Happy Birthday’: Park Chan-wook’s Lady Vengeance as a Musical Commentary on Protestant Christianity in Korea” in Panel Session, “The Current Soundscape of Korea: Trot, K-Pop, Film Music, and Art Music.” 30th AKSE Conference. La Rochelle, France, October 28–31, 2021.
  • 2020.11. “Meet the ‘Musical’ Hulk: Tracing New American Masculinity in Avengers: Age of Ultron” in Panel session, “Classes of Sound, or on the Politics of Sonic Identity.” The 6th World Humanities Forum. Hwabaek International Convention Center, Gyeongju, Korea, November 19–21, 2020.
  • 2019.10. “Rehabilitating Gemma, or Hearing the Voices of an Empty Womb in Donizetti’s Gemma di Vergy.” The 5th Biennial Conference of the East Asian Regional Association of IMS. School of Music, Soochow University, China, October 18–20, 2019.
  • 2018.05. “The Fellowship of the Sound(tracks): How the Regalia Became a Place to Unwind in Final Fantasy XV.” Music & The Moving Image XIII. New York University, May 24–27, 2018.