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Creative Sound Project Recording(4)
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…
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Creative Sound Project Recording(3)
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…
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Creative Sound Project Recording(2)
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…
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Dip Dive to the project
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…
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Creative Sound Project Recording (1)
My theme of CSP assignment is using materials of Korea traditional instruments : Iron, stone, thread, soil, bamboo, gourd, leather, wood. Therefore I will record every material and today’s thing is bamboo. A bamboo has hard surface and unfilled inside, which are main characteristics. Since the features, bamboo was used as woodwinds, such as Piri…
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About the direction of traditional music development
Why is traditional music called “traditional”? No one calls Western classical music traditional, but the music of the Joseon Dynasty in Korea, which developed around the same time, is called traditional. When I thought about what constitutes traditional music, I came to the conclusion that it’s only called traditional when the genre has stopped developing.…
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About Korean Contemporary Traditional Music (2)
Contemporary traditional music is currently referred to by various names such as Alternative Pop, Post Rock, Korean Shamanic, and Fusion Gugak, and is not clearly named. However, it is rooted in New Minyo, which refers to a new form of folk music, and shares the characteristics of mixing various traditional music forms such as Pansori…
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About Korean Contemporary Traditional Music (1)
In the previous post, we talked about Korean traditional music, divided into court music and folk music. In this post, we’re going to look at the modern Korean traditional music that was influenced by those traditional music in two genres: trot and contemporary traditional music. Trot has been a Korean popular song that originated in…
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About Korean Traditional Folk Music (3)
This is the last post in our series on traditional Korean folk music, and today we’ll cover Sanjo, Dance Music, Nongak, Muak, and Beompae. Sanjo is an instrumental solo piece that originated in the southern region of Korea and is most often played on the gayageum, geomungo, and daegeum, but is also sometimes played on…
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Plan for Creative Sound Project Element II Assignment (1)
The Creative sound project assignment in Element2 assignment is about free topic that asks you to create a song by referencing and utilizing various technical methods that you have learned in class. In this post, I’m going to flesh out my plan for the assignment. Initially, I thought about writing a literally ‘free’ piece using…