"Video-music jamming" is a new genre of musical performance and visual art coined by artist Seyeong Yoon, executed through his collaboration with music producer Glam Gould in a real-time improvisational performance between music and video over the course of 8 months. Deciding on the theme of 'void' to encapsulate the ineffable abyss incited by the Covid-19 pandemic, Glam Gould and Seyeong Yoon collaborated on an improvised call-and-response music video similar to improvised musical performances such as jazz. Glam Gould created a musical piece in response to the theme, 'Void', and Yoon would film with whatever camera apparatus was available while listening to the music and create a video in response to Glam Gould's musical piece. Glam Gould would then create a new musical piece in response to the visuals created by Yoon and the two went back and forth from December 2020 to July 2021, documenting their emotional and psychological responses to not only each other's work, but also to the pandemic world. around you. In Episode 1: Void, Yoon presents the product and process of ‘video music jamming’ in a 2-channel video art piece. The resulting 15-minute piece that compiles all the music and video from the ‘video music jam session’ can be viewed side-by-side with CCTV documentation of the 8-month process.

Video production is a medium that inherently relies on forward planning and airtight scheduling, a kind of ‘fortune telling’ in essence. Compared to other art forms, the concept of ‘improvisation’ has rarely been explored in the world of video, particularly the improvisation between the interplay of video and music. Most interactions between video and music are carefully and deliberately planned and engineered (i.e. music video, film scores, etc.) with one medium intended to be a supporting act to the other. Through video music jamming, Yoon sought to explore a new way in which music and video could interact with each other on equal terms. conditions and, more importantly, build on each other in real time, resulting in a pure call-and-response type of immediate creativity. For Yoon, improvisation or 'jamming' is the most direct means of expressing creativity, or rather, the purest essence of where creativity begins, as it captures the act of creating in real time - from impulse to ideation to execution. Improvised performance means creating in real time and is also characterized by the immediate archiving of the creative process.

The video music jam session in Episode 1: Void is not only a real-time performance that reacts to itself, but also an immediate archiving of the period of time that deals with the second year of the ongoing pandemic. The piece captures the anxiety and frustration of living with the pandemic, but also seeks to harness this uncertainty and impossibility of planning for the future in an entirely new artistic medium and creative approach. In a way, video music jamming can be considered the essence of the pandemic that has become synonymous with 'uncertainty', as it obliterates the element of 'planning for the future'. future' in the video and depends purely on reactions to the environment.