modern practical music

Initial inspiration for The Letter occurred during the time I was scoring a short film about the important, unimportant, serious, casual signatures in people’s everyday life, the weight these signatures carry, which could influence our lives in dramatic ways. The idea of constructing an electro-acousmatic piece using sampled sound of various daily writing stationery, including ball pens, mechanical pencils, markers, and highlighters interacting with the surface of paper intrigued me. A few imperative controlled parameters of these recorded samples are speed, pressure, and orientation, which are expressed by making slow circles, random doodles, fast scratches back and forth, and etc. Later, recorded sound extended to rolling stationery at various speeds, dropping them from various heights, and even the spinning of a pencil sharpener. It is to my fascination how these samples are transformed and reborn as distinctively new materials so oddly different from their origins, which in turn shape the textural and gestural approach of the piece.

The Letter

Hi. 

I am seungchan Lee and I compose musics. one of my hobby is making short composition using midi keyboard and that's what I will post.

modern practical music

Seungchan Lee

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