2024.10

Participant of the event BMS of Fighters : TT - Team. 東3局
Registration #362
Venue: https://manbow.nothing.sh/event/event.cgi?action=More_def&num=362&event=146

[BOF:TT] 話頭

Yeonjoon Yoon, Piano
Yeji Kim, Haegeum
Jihye Kim, Percussion
Eunsil Noh, Voice

20240829
LIVE from JCC Concert Hall, SEOUL

Hyomin Kang, RecordingㅣMixingㅣMastering

20240829 IMPROV

APT. type beat를 국악기를 활용하여 재창작

KeNDY_사랑채

The lead single of "Bulgae". We set an old Korean myth about the firedogs that bring light to the kingdom of darkness to music combining traditional Korean music with 80s Synthwave. The song features traditional korean Gugak singing and describes a scene where the firedogs try to hunt down the Blue Dragon to inhale his fire. The song tells the story of the dragon that runs away and looses his breath by the end reflected in a musical breakdown.

Artwork: Minz Cho
Solo: Isidor
Vocals: Sol-i So

Edictum & Pashang 爬 - Scene 4 - Catching The Sun (feat. Sol-i So & Isidor)

피어오름 [Bloom]

온고지신 [溫故知新] : 옛것을 익히고 그것을 미루어 새로운 것을 알다


<To keep the old and to absorb the new>

Absorb [온고지신:溫故知新]

이 곡은 세종시문화관광재단이 주최한 한글복합문화 공간 ‘한글상점’에서 활용될 목적으로 제작되었습니다.

28가지 한글 자모의 창의적 조합처럼 전자음악 일렉트로니카, 앰비언트, 익스페리멘탈 장르에 한국 전통 악기를 더해 현대적으로 해석한 음악입니다.

‘슈퍼 히읗’은 한글의 조합 원리를 소리로 확장한 실험적인 사운드 프로젝트로 28마디마다 등장하는 11가지 한국 전통 악기(아쟁, 앙금, 장구, 편종, 대금, 견고, 단소, 퉁소, 방울, 가야금, 거문고)를 그래뉼라 신디사이저와 리샘플링을 통해 재해석하였습니다.

'수퍼 히읗' was composed for Hangeul Shop (한글상점), a cultural venue that is operated by the Sejong Culture and Tourism Foundation.

This track combines traditional Korean instruments with contemporary electronic styles, including electronica, ambient, and experimental music, as a result of the inventive combinations of the 28 Korean Hangeul characters.

It is an experimental sound production that reimagines the logic of Hangeul in audio format.
Every 28 bars, 11 different traditional instruments — including ajaeng, angum, janggu, pyeonjong, daegeum, gyeongo, danso, tungso, bells, gayageum, and geomungo — are transformed using granular synthesis and resampling, creating a soundscape where the familiar and the unfamiliar coexist.


*공식 포스터 이미지는 비상업적인 용도로만 사용되며, 포스터 저작권은 세종시문화관광재단에 있습니다.

* The official poster image is intended for non-commercial use only.
The Sejong Culture and Tourism Foundation retains all rights to the poster.

수퍼 히읗

국악스텝

Commissioned by Obsessions String Quartet with the assistance of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts and the Edmonton Arts Council. Premiered by Obsessions String Quartet and Sarah Ho on piano.

Honorable Mention in SOCAN Foundation’s 2021 Awards for Young Composers.

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Being an immigrant has always been a big part of my identity, whether I liked it or not. It was only in recent years that I started to feel connected again to my heritage and began to engage with it. I appreciated being a part of something bigger—a history, culture, people—but with that includes a concern about their present-day issues and about where their countries are headed. I took this piece as an opportunity to further explore my Korean and Chinese heritage by studying (mostly) traditional forms of music found in those countries, and as an opportunity to read up and reflect on issues that compel their people to leave their homes.

The first movement is a nocturne partially inspired by Tibetan folk music and their often-free-spirited style of heterophony. The second movement borrows sounds from Chinese opera (mostly Peking opera), and loosely depicts a cheeky and rebellious opera group in Beijing putting on a show about the worsening abuse of human rights by the government, dedicated to the 1 million+ Uyghur Muslims in the province of Xinjiang currently detained in concentration camps.

The third movement was inspired by K-pop—how such a vibrant and enjoyable art form is confoundingly corporate, and the industry’s notorious mistreatment of their idols, reflective of South Korea’s militant work culture. (The problem of enjoying things made at the expense of workers’ well-being certainly is not unique to the K-pop industry, or to Korea, though, but rather pervades everywhere.)

The fourth movement draws inspiration from sanjo, a traditional form of Korean music involving an instrumental soloist and a percussion accompanist. Han is a concept of emotions described as a combination of grief and resentment, among others, coupled with a hint of hope or will to survive. The term emerged in Korea from its tumultuous modern history of oppression beginning from the Japanese colonization era, and pervades much of Korean art. Given the issues at hand today, most notably climate change, which disproportionately affects more vulnerable communities and nations and threatens to displace hundreds of millions of people, it seems like Han will be relevant to a far vaster population in the decades to come.

A New Era of Immigrant Stories (2020) for Piano Quintet - IV. Han (Mock-Up)

Live Mixed Ecstatic Dance set featuring traditional and contemporary Korean music

Ecstatic Dance Portland 9.17.25 Korean Fusion

Geoff Li is a composer and sound designer for media and the concert hall. He is part of the music production team Madcap Labs, with whom he scores the Pokémon TV series. Unapologetic in his love of various styles and aesthetics, his music blends together elements of Western classical, progressive metal, jazz, electronic, early 2000s video game music, and his Korean-Chinese heritage.

Geoff has been commissioned by the Chamber Orchestra of Edmonton, Obsessions Quartet, and the C’mon Festival (Chamber Music Old & New); and his music has been played by the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra, and Yardbird Suite Jazz Orchestra. He is currently working with indie game developer Aerobox Games on their upcoming title Rogue Racer. From 2021-2023, he served on council and, later, as head of the Professional Development Committee for the Canadian League of Composers.

pianistㅣcomposer

Yeonjoon Yoon is a versatile artist, creating and performing music that is both accessible and experimental, blending tradition with innovation, centered around the piano and synthesizer.

In 2024, he was chosen as a recipient of the Young Artist Scheme by the Arts Council Korea and premiered his original composition project UM움 in collaboration with traditional Korean musicians at the Barbican Center in London and JCC Art Center in Seoul. His next project is the Chopin-Glass-Yoon Études for Piano, created in collaboration with electronic musicians. He contributed to the arrangement of the tvN drama Maestra and director Myung-se Lee’s film The Killers.

Yoon was the first Korean to unanimously win the prestigious Gold Medal at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and was named a Rising Star by BBC Music Magazine. He has won and placed in international piano competitions in the UK, France, Spain, Italy, the United States, and Japan. He has performed at world-renowned venues such as the Seoul Arts Center, New York's Lincoln Center, London's Barbican Centre, and Palau de la Música in Spain. His collaborations include performances with the Fort Worth Symphony, Hastings Philharmonic, Guildhall Symphony, Peabody Sinfonietta, members of the Guarneri and Ying Quartets, and the concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic. His artistic work spans a wide range of fields, including solo piano recitals, chamber music, concerto performances, contemporary music, improvisation, interdisciplinary arts, film music, and popular music.

Yoon pursued his classical training at leading institutions, including the Korea National University of Arts Preparatory School, Yewon School, Peabody Preparatory School, Juilliard School, Yale School of Music, Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin, all on full scholarships.

Ambient & experimental sound artist based in Seoul.

MIDI Association of Yonsei 21.0
a.k.a. @feyrlin
Make some game-ish musical pieces

It is said that scientists are rarely exposed to direct sunlight. Edictum is no exception to this rule. As dusk falls, after escaping chemistry lab, the urge to synthesize on is burning the midnight oil - even if test tubes are replaced with knobs and keys and synthetic compounds with synthetic soundscapes. All available samples are absorbed into the experiment to create something new, something unique and - occasionally - something mad.

New tracks tagged #Gugak