Rolling the Cube: Deegie × Domin × Hyunseok Lee Multisensory Collaboration

<The Hexahedron’s Tale> Seven worlds opened by dice, and music that breathes in numbers

The dice, with its six simple faces, is a tool that holds infinite possibilities.

Domin has explored the cube (the dice) through painting, while Deegie has translated its form into the time–based art of music. Professor Hyunseok Lee of the Department of Mathematics at Kwangwoon University has provided a key mathematical principle for each composition, completing a structure where image, thought, and sound reflect one another.

On Thursday, 21 August, with the opening of Domin’s solo exhibition The Hexahedron’s Tale, a seven–track art OST corresponding to the seven central works will be released simultaneously.

The core of this OST is structure. Each track embodies a mathematical principle:

• Probability theory appears as subtle shifts between beats.

• The golden ratio reveals itself in the balance of melodic divisions and chord voicings.

• Topology unfolds through continuous transformations of layers.

• Graph theory resonates in the interplay of rhythm and line.

• Fractals emerge in difference within repetition.

• Fourier transform takes form in the decomposition and recomposition of frequencies.

• Chaos theory manifests in unpredictable transitions.

Each principle becomes not a metaphor, but a working mechanism — a distinct “way of thinking in numbers” that is turned into musical form.

The sound itself is a hybrid of drum and bass, baroque string quartet, and minimalist orchestra: the drive of hard beats, the poise of baroque strings, the spaciousness of minimal instrumentation, and textures built through the combination of live instruments with analogue synthesisers. Some tracks employ tenor vocals and rap voice, evoking auditory images rather than explanation.

Deegie absorbed the extremities of baroque — balance and excess, precision and rupture — encountered in Italy, at his own pace. He layers baroque tension over the vitality of drum and bass racing beyond BPM 174, shaping poetic sentences with meticulous care. The lyrics do not accumulate meaning in a linear way, but instead shake the senses through metaphor, repetition, and variation. In this process, mathematical concepts are not metaphors but operating principles. In such a way, music transforms the planes and lines of painting, the symbols and proofs of mathematics, into forms of listening.

In the end, the Hexahedron’s Tale OST converges on a single question:How do we compose meaning within the realm of possibility?

The dice may offer six answers, but the totality of its throws is infinite. If Domin’s painting has visualised that moment, Deegie’s music has temporalised it. And mathematics has rendered the whole process into thought.

On Thursday, 21 August, seven tracks released with the exhibition will point to the same landscape, each in its own language. Beyond the cube, we come at last to see the same thing — differently.

The official soundtrack The Hexahedron’s Tale (Original Exhibition Soundtrack) will be released on Thursday, 21 August, at 4:00 PM.

Listener’s Guide: Tracklist & Key Theories

#Keywords for easy understanding

Each track translates one mathematical principle into musical structure. Follow the hints below to read the works and the music together.

1. FORTUNE — Probability Theory

• Core: The same pattern yields different outcomes depending on chance.

• How to listen: Notice small variations within repeating rhythms and patterns. Tiny shifts overturn the atmosphere of the piece.

  
  

2. ENJOY THE MOMENT — The Golden Ratio (φ)

• Core: The 1:1.618… ratio that creates balance and immersion.

• How to listen: Sense the points where melody and harmony divide in balance. You’ll feel the natural “it fits just right” moment.

  
  

3. THE BOUNDARY OF FANTASY — Topology

• Core: A shape may change, but its essence remains.

• How to listen: Follow the continuous transformations of sound layers. Even as variations grow, the underlying pattern survives.

  
  

4. THE INTERACTION — Graph Theory

• Core: Dots and lines, connections and relations form a whole structure.

• How to listen: Capture the sense of connection as drums, bass, strings, and synths signal to one another. A network becomes audible.

  
  

5. THE VARIATION — Fractal Geometry

• Core: Large and small structures resemble each other through self–similarity.

• How to listen: Motifs return enlarged or reduced. The feeling of “something heard before yet new” is the sense of fractals.

  
  

6. REAL HYBRID — Fourier Transform

• Core: Complex sounds decomposed and recomposed by frequency.

• How to listen: Analogue and digital textures overlap and separate. Try to pick out base tones and overtones with your ear.

  
  

7. BEYOND THE HEXAHEDRON — Chaos Theory

• Core: Tiny differences in starting points lead to unpredictable outcomes.

• How to listen: The track begins in a familiar way but veers off. Abrupt turns open the climax of the story.