Seoul National Computer Music Festival was held from the 6th to 8th October 2023. The festival conducted concerts of instruments, electronics, live electronics, new media and so on. Among the 31 works, 4 works showed potentials that computer acoustics...
Seoul National Computer Music Festival was held from the 6th to 8th October 2023. The festival conducted concerts of instruments, electronics, live electronics, new media and so on. Among the 31 works, 4 works showed potentials that computer acoustics can stimulate our senses and those helped us to make our imaginations extremely. Firstly, we can imagine some appearance by capturing real lives’ elements. For example, Panayiotis Kokoras’ 《Al Phantasy》(2020) uses real-sounds, such as eating sound and environmental noises, by listing various sounds, he captures the moments when our thoughts moved back and forth between reality and unconsciousness, and daydreaming. Also, MinSeok Yang’s 《Vanishing Point》(2023) captured the landscape vividly and in detail by acoustically seizing the waterhole created by the raindrops through vibraphones, percussion and electronics. The following works, SeongJun Moon’s 《Halftone》(2023) and HyeonSeok Jeon’s 《Fragmented Colours》(2023), are designed to draw a single picture in an imaginary space. The former work formed electronic points, and then points make lines and a surface. The last work, I would like to talk, uses Saenghwang and live electronics. It was transformed into a picture with various colours and forms by harmonizing the movements of the sounds produced by Saenghwang and the computer. After all, this work made me to imagine a 'drip technique' painting. To conclude, although the sound produced by computer music differs from the traditional sounds, the specialty caused by using computers allowed us to further stimulate our senses and create an imagination.