Reuben Son

I’m a Korean-American artist and technologist based in New York City, working primarily with software, sound, and ceramics. My recent and ongoing body of work engages what I call “choreographies of listening”, in which the act of listening situates the body within the larger environment of the sculpture or performance. This emphasis on listening introduces a somatic consideration of materiality and phenomenology beyond traditional qualities of surface and form in sculpture.

Joint and Group Exhibitions

• 2025 Quantum Intimacies, Millenium Film Workshop, New York City
• 2024 Echea (w/ Eli Keszler), Galerie Pepe, Mexico City
• 2020 Panopoly, Manny Cantor Center, New York City

Discography

Solo Releases

• 2023 “Airports for Music,” Nina Protocol
• 2015 “Still Sleeping,” Private Chronology
• 2015 “A Simple Procedure,” Estuary Ltd.
• 2014 “Asleep at the Drawing Board,” Private Chronology
• 2012 “Days Gone By,” Wagtail Recordings
• 2011 “Lesslessness,” Razors & Medicine
• 2010 “Cortical Migrations,” Digitalis Ltd.
• 2010 “Sensual Square,” Private Chronology
• 2009 “Glowing Departure,” Private Chronology

Collaborative Releases & Compilations

• 2019 Hoff, James, “Hobo UFO v Chernobyl,” PAN
• 2015 Evans-Weiler, Morgan, “Violin/Sine,” Individual Lines
• 2015 “A Simple Procedure,” Estuary Ltd.
• 2012 Keszler, Eli, “Catching Net,” PAN
• 2011 “A Ceremony For Japan”, Electric Temple Records
• 2011 Keszler, Eli, “Cold Pin,” PAN
• 2011 Jones, Glenn, “The Wanting,” Thrill Jockey

Radio Mixes

• 2024 “Allure of Inertia,” NTS Radio
• 2022 “Composing Through Listening,” WFMU

Selected Performances

• 2025“Airs,” Wordhack
• 2024 “Quiet Time,” Naive Yearly
• 2024 “Frog Chorus,” Fruitful School
• 2019 Beaseley, Kevin and Keslzer, Eli, “A View of a Landscape,” Whitney Museum of American Art
• 2013 Boston Waterworks Museum
• 2013 Contemporary Arts International
• 2012 Keszler, Eli, “L-Carrier,” Eyebeam Art & Technology Center
• 2010 Goethe-Institut Boston

Residencies and Workshops

• 2023 Music Machine Learning — Recurse Center
• 2023 Ceramic 3D Printing Workshop — Haystack Mountain School of Crafts
• 2019 Resident Guest Composer — Elektronmusikstudion (Sweden)

Lectures

• 2024 Artist talk — Digital Design @ Parsons
• 2024 Quiet Time — Museum of Architecture and Design (Slovenia)

Bibliography

• 2025 Nguyen, Celine, “Is the Internet Making Culture Worse?” Asterisk, Issue No. 12
• 2025 Tjalve, Kristoffer and Cost, Elliott, “Internet Phone Book”
• 2025 Son, Reuben, “Quiet Time,” Are​.na Editorial, https://www.are.na/editorial/quiet-time
• 2025 Son, Reuben, “Airs” The HTML Review, Issue No.4
• 2024 Abrams, Janet, “The ABCs of XYZ”, Ceramic Review, Issue No. 328
• 2024 Son, Reuben, “Surface Tension,” Are​.na Annual, Vol. 6
• 2024 Son, Reuben, “Frog Chorus,” https://frogchor.us
• 2023 Son, Reuben, “MIDI Archive,”, https://reubenson.com/midi-archive
• 2019 Son, Reuben, “Weaving Music,” https://reubenson.com/weaving