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January 11th - Feedback from Peers about First draft

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January 11th - Feedback from Peers about First draft

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Min Ji Koo - It is generally okay but it seems like the melody and beat is not connected.
Yeon Su Ryu - I can't hear the original traditional song.
Yun Jae Lee - Some notes doesn't match the beat and tempo.

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Yunjae Lee - Chestnut Song Fusion
Yunjae have made a fusion song with a South Korean Traditional Song, Chestnut Song (군밤타령). As a whole, the song is very attractive as an EDM and Hip Hop song. There are changes of beat which had made it not boring because in a Hip Hop song, the artists tend to change beats to not make it boring for audiences. However, some beats changed quite a lot during the song which made it kind of vague for the audience. For instance, people usually get hooked by a song in the “Hook” part, and Yunjae seemed to have created that hook part in her song because she implied the whole traditional song itself and there is a chorus part in the original song itself. However, the hook did not went long and got replaced by another beat or melody really fast so I didn’t know the main part after the song to be and what part to remember, what part I should hum afterward. After listening to Yun Jae’s work, I have listened to the original soundtrack of Chestnut Song she was trying to fused and realize that she have implied most of the song, and tried her best to keep the “favor” of it. She did this by playing the whole song instead of taking out a main part of the song like what I did. Her work seems to be a work that modern music being put into a traditional song rather than traditional song is fused into a modern music.

The beginning of the song first started with an electronic sound, transited by a drum sound it changed to the part with the melody of that Chestnut traditional song. This was a good transition to begin because it gave me time to expect  something different from the beginning was coming up next and since it is just the start, she haven’t use much powerful transition. However, it was kind of a disappointment when a more relaxing melody and beat compared to the beginning came in. As a whole, she has used 5 different beat and melody. Even though the beginning beat that she started off with was used again at the end, the strong beat after that made me forget about it. If take it positively, she have tried to create different verses. The transition is the factor that she has done most effectively and it sounded like an actual song, even if it was more than 2 minutes, I could not realize it because the song flew really well and different verses were put into it. I would give her a grade around 6 and 7.

Min Ju Kang - Thapenagga (Niliria)
This is a personal reflection after the project. After the final creation, I believe I have not been successful in fusing the two type of music together. The song was too separated into parts that went around classic then hip hop then classic then EDM. I believe I have done well in the different parts but not when it comes to combining them all together like a song. I think the last part of the song was fine with the "blast" feeling at the end. The intention of trying to give an original song first so that the audience would know the traditional song first and then take them into the Hip Hop beat with the electric piano sound of Niliria then make the Piri sound and make the mood happy again. However, I should have only insert the classical part once in the middle. I believe I have put a piano part and Flute part twice because I was first planning to use Flute t make Piri sound in the middle to create the traditional sound but then I did not know a way to  start the song so I used the piano. The final product does not sound like a song due to the transition too, the change between parts was not flowing well. Also, I think the change of similiar soundtrack beats in the second part was effective  too because it didn't make it boring. The EDM, Hip Hop beat at the end after the Flute sound had seemed to left the audience remember that part so maybe that is a positive thing too.

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Criteria A

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January 2nd

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January 2nd

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January 2nd

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November 23rd

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This is the final version of the fusion product. There were some feedbacks that I should work on more transition but I could not and if the song is connected, then the song will turn into classical music so I stopped working there.

Before this final product, all of the drafts contain so much different elements which made it confusing, but this seems to have only what is needed in it.

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I finished my second draft. However, decided to restart because even though it is not wholly organized, I didn't like it. Therefore, considering that I have the backup project, I decided to make one more.

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I finished my first draft of the song. However, even though I didn't finish some parts up yet, the beat and melody does not match and it does not sounds like hip hop. Therefore I decided to keep the style and do it again.

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I went to school and used the Mac and keyboard to create the melody based on the original traditional song but it could not be saved since there was an error and I have to address the problem tomorrow.

I recorded two styles of the melody to be in the song, and decide the second one.

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There became a new problem when I changed the beat several times in the middle that the mood will change a lot and the song did not sound as one song; rather, it was just like an audio combined of all the different random beat.

Chorus 1 --> Silence with only the melody of the traditional song on electric piano

Verse 1 --> fun beat with the continuing rhythm of the traditional song

Chorus 2 --> starting with a change of fast drum, fun and bright fast beat with the melody

Bridge --> fusion of chorus 2 and verse 2 mood

Verse 2 --> fun mood, different with verse 2

Chorus 3 --> Repeating of choruses above

Imply guzheng, dizi since similar to piri and gayagum in Korean traditional.

I first thought of creating the song to convey a message through a song that makes it like a story but the problem was that it was too difficult. So just separated the moods.

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I struggled once more because of being not prepared to start the product, however, there is not much time left and cannot keep on researching again, so I ust continued on. I chose the outline of the song. The song will have a chorus and be repeated three times in the song. Therefore the outline of the song will be Chorus (include the melody of Thaepeongga) à Verse 1 à Chorus à Bridge à Verse 2 à Chorus. The chorus will be made at school because on Mac cannot use keyboard.

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I decided on the main beat for the song since hip hop is based on the beat. However, I realized that one beat cannot go for  minutes all the way, therefore, I am going to change the beat several times in the middle so that it would not be boring and changes the mood at the same time. Thaepoengga is a song that people  sang or listened to when they are tired or trying to be happy. In the lyrics, the word Niliria is being repeated countless times even in the chorus, this is the sound that people make which represents their feeling of saying “let’s ignore everything that blocks our way and be  happy”.Therefore, the fusionproduct of mine will also have the same message.

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This is the chorus part of the song which I am going to put into the fused song of mine.

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With Instruments

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(가야금_송인길,거문고_이오규,대금_김응서,피리_김관희,해금_김기동,장구_박문규) *태평가(太平歌)_2010년 유네스코 세계인류무형문화유산에 등재된 한국 전통음악인 '가곡' 중 마지막 곡으로 남,녀가 함께 부르는 유일한 병창곡이다. 가필주대(歌畢奏臺)·편대(編臺)라고도 한다. 남창·여창·남녀창으로 부른다. 계면조(界面調)의 이삭대엽(二數大葉)을 변주한 것으로 장단은 16박 1장단으로 되어 있다. 초장 1각에서 거문고가 독주로 11박을 연주한 후 12박부터 노래와 관현반주가 시작된다. 형식은 대여음(大餘音) 없이 5장과 중여음(中餘音)으로 되어 있고, 매우 느리고 장중한 곡이다.

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I forgot my Mac at home, and there were not much time left after the activity, so I decided to just explore more sounds on Garage Band using the school's one. Then putting in the melody line, I tried to add a new drum sound then take picture to put into the Mac at home later on.

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Today is to start to make the music on Garage Band finally.

Considering the break, I will not have time to get to school and since I struggled to start the fusion, I am behind other students and  have a lot to do, I brought my Mac to school which has the Garage Band on it. I tried once more with the Garage Band on the Mac to start the project. I  have changed the melody of the chorus that I have decided to out in.

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I wanted to try and add a sound of the traditional instrument of Korea, one of the instrument that have been actually used in the Gagok and Niliria, since I found out that the EDM sound can cover it up and still make it sounds like part of the song, or else I can insert the sound in the middle of the song as a "break" from the hard loud music.

These are the 5 main traditional instruments that have been played in the original song:
가야금 --> Gayageum - string instrument
거문고 --> Geomungo - string instrument
대금 --> Daegum - wind instrument
피리 --> Piri - wind instrument
해금 --> Haegeum - string instrument
장구 --> Janggu - percussion

I have none of these instruments except that there is an instrument called "" that every Korean student are forced to learn at school which sounds similiar to Piri, but I cannot blow it, so I decided to play Flute instead, which sounds fairly similiar to the 피리 (Piri).

Below is the audio of the flute sound of the whole verse 1 of Niliria.

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Today's plan is to finish the research on Hip Hop and EDM genre.

Hip Hop mainly are separated into two parts for beginner to create. Boom Bap and Neutral. I decided to use the Boom Bap with the drum beat with the main beat.
There are 9 elements to Hip Hop:
1. Break dancing
2. Rapping
3. Graffiti art
4. DJing
5. Beatboxing
6. Street fashion
7. Street Language
8. Street Knowledge
9. Street Entrepreneurialism
Each of this element talks about the specific beat that makes hip hop, hip hop

These videos below are the famous ones that presented the "Korean style" well.

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The plan for today is to start working on fusing the music with the Garage Band app.

I first started by adding the melody line that I’ve chosed within the Taeppoenga – Niliria into the Garage Band with an electric keyboard since EDM and Hip Hop both contains electronic sounds and are not consist of Grand Piano sounds or other pianos. However, from there, I was stuck and don’t know what to do next. I have decided that the song will be Niliria, and it will be fused into Hip Hop just because it is the most popular genre of modern music. I did not know what make Hip Hop and what make EDM, and when the imbeded melody fuse with other instrument, the beat did not sounded right. Therefore, first I came back to class and decided to research more on the genres and the Niliria itself, and different sounds, instruments I can imply.

At school, there was a special type of keyboard that would let me use different sounds, so I used that to create a rough image on my mind.

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The plan for today is to finish up the research of necessary knowledge before starting the project.

After the research, I realized that Taepoengga has many types of it within itself. The two main ones are the Gagok and Niliiria.

Gagok (가곡) is a small genre within Korea's Traditional voice music that ancestors (Choseon people) from Korea sang since 16th century and continued until now with some changes made as over time. It was most of the time sang by intelligent, well - educated scholars at that time. At that time, there were 13 main Gagok that these scholars favored to sing which was composed by Shin Jae Hyo (1812~1884) and Taepoengga is the last one on the list and the only one to have men and women vocals sing at the same time with same lyrics and harmony that matches exquisitely, when the other 12 songs let the two different gender sing different lyrics at different
time. Therefore, Gagok Taeppeonga is just a traditional music for the ancestors to sing along with different traditional instrument.

The other Taeppeonga is also called Niliria. This one is in Guk – ak style,  which is Korea’s another traditional singing. Niliria is a more famous one than Gagok Taeppeonga because it was created later on and many modern artists have already had their own fusion of it.

I chose to continue on the task with the Taepeonga - Niliria song.

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(The lyrics and notation of the Taepoengga

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(The lyrics and notation of the Taepoengga

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짜증은 내여서 무엇하나, 성화는 내여서 무엇하나
What can you do if you get irritated? What can you do if you are upset?

인생 일장 춘몽 인데, 아니나 놀고서 무엇하리
Life is an empty dream. If you don’t have fun, what do you do?

니나노~ 늴리리야 늴리리야 니나노~, 얼싸 좋아 얼씨구나 좋다
(Expression of joy.) Oh yes it’s good! Oh yes, it’s nice!

벌 나비는 이리저리 훨훨훨 꽃을 찾아서 날아든다
One after the other, bees and flies come flying to the flower they find

청사초롱에 불 밝혀라, 잊었던 낭군이 다시 찾아온다
Light up your lanterns! The one you once loved come again to visit you.

공수래는 공수거요, 놀아가면서 살아가세
We come empty-handed (the way we are born) and will return empty-handed, as you play, make a living

꽃을 찾는 벌나비는 향기를 쫓아 날아들고
The butterfly that founds its flower follows the fragrance

황금 같은 꾀꼬리는 버들 사이로 왕래한다
And the golden nightingale comes and go through the branches of the willow tree

청사초롱에 불 밝혀라, 잊었던 낭군이 다시 온다
Light up your lanterns! The one you once loved come comes back.

공수래 공수거 하니, 아니나 놀지는 못하리라
Don’t we come empty handed and return as such? If not, we can’t have fun.

장장추야 긴긴 밤에 실솔의 소리도 처량하다
During the long nights of Autumn, the crickets’ is plaintive

임을 그리워 젖는 베개, 어느 누가 알아주리
The pillow drenched when you miss your lover, who can see that?

학도 뜨고 봉도 떴다, 강상에 두루미 높이 떠서
The cranes and ducks fly away in the frost, as the red-crowned crane flies high in the sky

두 나래를 훨씬 펴고, 우줄우줄 춤을춘다
Its wings stretch out as mush as they can and dance with rhythm

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This is the plan for this assessment. I believed that knowledge before starting is required since I need to keep what is needed and inserted necessary elements. Additionally, I also need to know about the Garage Band in order to start the project. Therefore, next class I will continue the research, Moreover, the  special dates like on Monday next week with no schools are included.