A composer of visual media, Wonji Lee creates music that evokes specific imagery, emotions, and even the déjà vu of an entirely different world in her listeners. Based in San Francisco, she is involved in music production and sound design for diverse genres, including animations, VR documentaries, comedy films, and horror movies. Lee crafts a unique soundscape all her own by enriching the ambient music genre with orchestral, acoustic, and electronic sounds.

She specialized in classical piano in her arts middle school through college, which allowed her to gain a deep understanding of a wide repertoire of chamber and orchestral music. Later, she studied Music Production & Sound Design for Visual Media at the Academy of Art University (AAU) in San Francisco, expanding her musical horizons into music writing, MIDI, and arrangement. In 2019, Haenyeo, a VR documentary whose sound design she produced, was shown at the TFI Network during the world-renowned Tribeca Film Festival. In 2020, her work was selected as the Silver Award winner at the Independent Shorts Awards and also as the Best Music Score Award winner at the Top Shorts Film Festival.

Lee’s first album Unfamiliar is her answer to the questions “Can music make us dream of the ideal in everyday life?” and “Can music transform the familiar into the unfamiliar?” In this album, taking “air” as her main theme, an aspect of existence too familiar to be transformed into anything exotic, she musically depicts three types of moments when we discern air as something unfamiliar, the moments when it is perceived through a sense of vision, touch, and weight.