August 23, 2025

Mar 11

Written By Na Kim

spool

#1

spool #1

spool is a side project of LOOM — a space for quiet gatherings, shared attention, and layered reflection. While LOOM explores solitude and introspective observation, spool turns toward the experience of being with others. Each spool program values individual thought, but also invites subtle forms of sharing. Rather than loud or structured exchange, it favors stillness, slowness, and soft overlap between people and ideas.

spool unfolds through a range of formats — screenings, listening sessions, readings, workshops, and occasional performances. These gatherings offer gentle frameworks for being present, thinking together, and exchanging without pressure. spool does not follow a fixed format or reside in a single place. It exists as a loose, evolving community through time spent together.

The spool #1 program includes:

Listening Session:
dataplex (2005) by Ryoji Ikeda
The piece transforms invisible data into high tones, low pulses, static, and digital noise that gradually form patterns. Some frequencies even go beyond human hearing, creating a physical response in the body. Sound has no shape, but it creates space. And space shifts how we perceive. By listening closely, we sense how sound and environment meet—and share a quiet moment together, without expectation.

Screening Session:
Moriyama-San (2017) by Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoine
This documentary film follows a day in the life of its protagonist at the Moriyama House in Tokyo—a cluster of small buildings where inside and outside, structure and space, flow naturally together. Books, music, wind, and light shape the rhythms of daily life. The film quietly explores how sound and architecture affect perception. Through cycles of stillness and movement, order and emptiness, it offers a different way of listening. Beginning with a definition of noise, it invites us to notice what is often overlooked—static, gaps, and quiet spaces.

Special thanks to Isak Han for programming with us, and to Jongho Lim for closing the night with his DJ set.

Photo by Siniz Kim