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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…
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About Korean Traditional Folk Music (2)
In our last post, we talked about Minyo, and in this post, we’ll talk about Japga, Yipchang, Pansori, and Byeongchang. These four types of folk music can be categorized into two groups based on their musical similarities, the first being Japga and Yipchang, and the second being Pansori and Byeongchang. Japga is a long-form song…
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About Korean Traditional Folk Music (1)
Korean traditional music can be divided into two main categories according to modern categorization, one of which is court music, which we covered in the last three posts, and the other is folk music, which was passed down from the common people to professional musicians. Unlike court music, which had a specific role for each…
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About court music of the Joseon Dynasty(3)
In this article, we’ll take a look at the last of the three types of court music from the Joseon Dynasty: Tang-ak, A-ak, and Hyang-ak. Hyang-ak was named after the introduction of Tang-ak in the Three Kingdoms period to distinguish between foreign music and indigenous music, so it is indigenous Korean music that has existed…
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About court music of the Joseon Dynasty(2)
In the last article, we learned about Tang-ak, one of the three types of Joseon court music, and today we’re going to take a look at A-ak. Like Tang-ak, A-ak is a type of ancient Chinese music that was introduced from the Song Dynasty during the Goryeo Dynasty, but A-ak only refers to songs that…
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Methods to make Alien Voices
In a part of group project, we had to design, script and record an alien calling into a radio station. Initially, we were going to create the alien’s voice by modulating the recorder’s (Patrick’s) own voice, but during the recording process, I suggested that we record it in a normal voice and then apply sound…
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Process making Space Music
I was in charge of sound design or music creation in our group, and one of the things we planned was to create space-themed music to go along with the alien dialogue. In fact, music in space is a space without air as a medium for sound, so we had to use our imagination to…
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About court music of the Joseon Dynasty (1)
The music of the Joseon Dynasty can be divided into court music (Jeongak) and folk music according to modern classification. As the name suggests, court music refers to music used at royal events, while folk music was aimed at the general public. During the Joseon Dynasty, court music can be divided into three types of…
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Can Crossover Music be called Traditonal
Music using traditional instruments has received a great deal of attention around the world. Some people consider music performed on traditional instruments to be ‘traditional’ regardless of the form of the song or the way it is performed. However, others argue that in order to be called traditional music, the components of the music, including…