dulouz
Joined: 04 Feb 2003
Location: Uranus
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 Posted: Wed Sep 20, 2006 6:36 am Post subject: My kind of Korean music |
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I'm not big on the hip hop beats at all, but Korean traditional music I have a real flair for. Its tough for me to find in public but I did find one radio station that plays it and its the only music I listen to when I work. I don't have to listen for my favorite song.
The wind and the string sounds are very new to me so I find them invigorating and the themes are equally as new. Especially a big ensemble or orchestra. The Pansori songs are Ok, but I prefer the orchestra music.
I don't who made this stuff or when it was written. Some fusion is OK even at the risk of coming off like Yanni. I'll take the pure stuff if I have a choice. My students turned their noses up at it.
I did see the national symphony once by accedent while they were tuning. I cried it was so sweet. That night, the performance got real pop-y and didn't have anywhere near the appeal.
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Fusion musicians push the edge of tradition, but is it Korean?
September 20, 2006 ㅡ
The screen lit up and B-boys ― breakdancers ― leapt across it to the hum of Pachelbel's Canon. But that staple of string quartets was synchronized to a hip-hop beat, and the sounds of the strings were lighter, airier than a cello's would be.
Like all good commercials, the B-boy scene riveted audiences, but not for its dancing: Viewers were stunned to learn that the sounds were created on a gayageum, a Korean zither, and performed by the Sookmyung Gayageum Orchestra. A gayageum can sound like that? You can play Pachelbel's Canon on the zither?
"The responses have been favorable. The music touched the audience," said Professor Song Hye-jin, the director of the orchestra at Sookmyung Women's University.
"The responses have been favorable. The music touched the audience," said Professor Song Hye-jin, the director of the orchestra at Sookmyung Women's University.
Such is the changing public perception of Korean traditional music. Many forms of Korean music that were once seen as unforgivably difficult and old-fashioned are now being used in novel and surprising ways. The question is whether traditional music will ever be able to compete for attention with rock and pop.
"People's tastes have been changed. They've become so accustomed to Western music they no longer like traditional music tunes," Ms. Song said.
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