Jun Lee was born in Seoul, South Korea. He studied urban planning and worked for three years as a freelance film music composer and popular music producer. During that time, he became aware of the limitations of creating new sounds and the lack of imagination within the commercial music industry and decided to move to England where, where he studied contemporary and electroacoustic music with Simon Hall, Richard Leigh Harris and Edwin Roxburgh at Birmingham Conservatoire. His work is mainly in the field of studio-based projects and includes IDM (intelligent dance music), released under the name Kayip. In 2007 he won the second University of Aberdeen Music Prize with a work for string quartet, Langsam Musik, selected from more than 400 initial entries, and was commissioned to write a new orchestral piece for the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra; Marea received its premiere at the Music Hall in Aberdeen in October 2008 and the performance was subsequently broadcast on BBC Radio 3.

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