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Wonji Lee Portfolio 2024
Story to Music
Uncertain Walls (Inspired by the novel The City and Its Uncertain Walls)
2:48
Traces (Inspired by the movie Past Lives)
4:02
The Silent Patient (Inspired by the novel The Silent Patient)
2:59
The London Bridge (Inspired by the TV show The Crown)
2:16
Where The Wind Comes From (Inspired by the movie Boyhood)
2:44
Documentary
Where we live (Ambience, peaceful / Woodwind, synth pad)
2:34
October 30 (Layered rhythmic patterns, tense, anxious / Piano, string, synth)
2:58
Map (Suspenseful, percussive, ambient / Synth)
2:19
Residents (Emotional, reflective, nostalgic / Piano, woodwind, synth pad)
3:07
Animation
Fortune cookie (Mysterious, tense, oriental / Orchestra, synth, percussion)
5:23
Escape (Epic, powerful, dramatic / Synth, percussion, voice)
1:24
Purple Whale (Hopeful, fantasy / Acoustic guitar, marimba, voice, synth pad)
1:39
Drama
A moment (Suspenseful, dramatic / String, synth bass, synth pad)
3:12
Surface of Chaos (Oriental, suspenseful / Synth pad, woodwind, piano, dulcimer)
1:26
A New Place (Hopeful, peaceful / Piano, orchestra)
1:06
Thriller
The Evidence Under The Stairs (Mysterious, suspenseful, tense / Synth, string)
2:12
Door 1 (Mysterious, scary, eerie / Voice, piano, string, synth)
2:09
The Masked Man (Mysterious, dark /Synth, string)
1:52
Don't Tear Yourself Apart (Dark, tense / Woodwind, synth)
5:12
Biography
Wonji Lee is a San Francisco Bay Area–based composer and sound designer for film, animation, and immersive media. She often records and manipulates her own field recordings and found sounds, transforming everyday sounds into musical materials to create a distinctive sonic voice. Drawn to atmosphere, tension, and the space between the familiar and unfamiliar, Lee creates music that explores the emotional and psychological layers beneath a story.
Her film work includes the feature thriller Don’t Tear Yourself Apart, the documentary short Floodplain, the stop-motion film Fortune Cookie, and the experimental animations Sorry I Missed Your Call and I Bathe with Moths. These works have been selected for and screened at film festivals in the U.S. and internationally. Across these projects, Lee has developed a particular interest in psychological thrillers, dark drama, experimental storytelling, and stories that leave room for ambiguity and emotional subtext.
Lee has also composed music and designed sound for immersive VR concert experiences with AmazeVR, working on projects featuring artists including aespa, TXT, LE SSERAFIM, ATEEZ, KAI, Cha Eun-Woo, and Zara Larsson. Her work in VR includes original music, sound design, and music for interactive experiences.
Classically trained in piano, Lee earned a bachelor's degree in Piano Performance from Ewha Womans University before receiving an MFA in Music Production & Sound Design for Visual Media from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. Her earlier sound design work includes Haenyeo, a VR documentary presented at the TFI Network during the Tribeca Film Festival in 2019. Her work has also received recognition from the Independent Shorts Awards and Top Shorts Film Festival.
As an independent artist, Lee explores the intersection of sound, imagery, and perception. Her debut album, Unfamiliar, transforms everyday sensations into an ambient, neo-classical sound world. Her latest work, The Story Beneath, co-written with UK composer Jolene Khor, moves into a darker electronic palette of pulsing synths, evolving textures, and processed voice.