The Hip-Hop Orchestra Experience (THHOE) doesn’t remix genres—it invents a new one. Equal parts symphony, dance party, and underground club night, THHOE fuses the structural rigor of classical with the raw energy of hip-hop, creating a new genre of live performance.

Led by composer/pianist JooWan Kim, the project features MCs, a lyric soprano, and a full orchestra of winds, brass, strings, piano, and drums. Every note is fully scored and original— weaving canons, fugues, and symphonic textures into rapid-fire rhymes, rap cyphers, and hip-hop dance circles that spill into the audience. The result feels like live film music or street opera: dramatic, immersive, and completely unexpected.

Pitchfork calls it “textures swimming through the sound…like the world’s fastest ping-pong game” and Huffington Post claims it as “the cutting edge of hip-hop.” THHOE has earned international attention from BBC, NPR, PBS, Wall Street Journal, ESPN, and more.

This is not hip-hop with strings. It’s not classical with beats. It’s the birth of a new sound.

The Hip-Hop Orchestra Experience

Apr 24, 2026

The Hip-Hop Orchestra Experience

The Hip-Hop Orchestra Experience