Now I have processed and prepared the recorded sounds, it’s time to create a song. Although I usually work in the Arrangement View in Ableton Live, this time I decided to work in the Session View to try out MIDI Control, which we learned about in class. Initially, I wanted to use all the recorded…

In this post, I will describe the process I followed for a CSP assignment. I recorded various sounds from eight different materials and needed to do some post-processing to use the recorded sounds in a better way. The first step was to trim the parts of the sound I wanted to use. Each sound was…

The last material we recorded is wood. Similar to thread, wood is a material used in many musical instruments around the world. Wood is rarely used as a sound-producing instrument on its own, but because of its moderate resonance and the fact that it is easier to work than stone or iron, it is often…

The material of this recording is thread. While the existence of strings in all musical instruments around the world cannot be denied, there is a significant difference between Eastern and Western string instruments, which is the material of the strings. In the West, strings are often made of metal, whereas in the East, most strings…

The material for this recording is stone. There are only two instruments in Korean traditional music that use stones: the Pyeongyeong and the Teuggyeong. The Pyeongyeong is made by carving stones into the shape of the letter ‘ㄱ’ in Korean, and the thickness of the stones is adjusted to match the pitch. The Teuggyeong is…

The material of this recording is soil. Rather than being used to create sound in itself, soil is made into mud and then fired into pottery shapes: Examples of instruments used are the Bu, a percussion instrument, and the Hun, a wind instrument. I decided to make sounds with the clay itself, and went out…

The material we will be recording is leather. Leather was used as a part of traditional Korean percussion instruments, usually thinly pinned leather bonded to hollowed-out wood to create a soft resonance: Janggu or Buk, for example. My initial plan was to use the elasticity of the leather to record the sound of striking the…

The material we are going to record this time is Gourd. Gourd is a type of plant, and in Korea, it is mainly used as a water basket by hollowing out the inside after drying, using itself as a part of instrument. In traditional Korean musical instruments, it was used for the body of the…

This time I recorded iron sounds with some iron pipes. I used three type of pipe: the first one is unfilled, the second is filled and screwed, the last is thin and elastic. When I helped my sister’s working, we used iron pipe on stone, which made resonating sound, I decided to use it for…

After the tutorial with Gareth, I was inspired to think more deeply about my topic. I started this project with the idea that I wanted to use elements of Korean traditional music as musical materials to inherit or develop the tradition. However, I had many questions such as ‘why do I want to develop this…