letter from nobody

lo wie

Softcover, 112pp

Orolo Books, Seoul, 2025

lo wie composes, performs, and writes within everyday life. She wrote Beckett's Typist (2011) and has been organizing the outdoor concert series namsan in Seoul, London, and Berlin since 2014.

Letter from Nobody gathers her “pieces performed by title only, without scores,” along with scores inspired by those pieces and derived from other authors' books, and reflections from the namsan concerts. This book may serve as a record of performances, a commentary on scores, a collection of responses to novels and poetry, a set of poems written through performance, or even a book of scores. 

lo wie receives letters sent by nobody—sometimes revising them, sometimes writing new ones to be performed spontaneously in everyday life. She traces and refines the marks left by the passage of time.

This title inaugurates the Anti-Music Series by Orolo Books—a series of works that seeks to strip away the hardened shell of “music” as a noun, and to explore what might still live within it as a verb, through speculation and practice.