soundajourney

drops

a mixture of raindrops falling on different materials. i played with wine glass, metal door, stainless clothes dryer, light metal frame, classic guitar… i spent six hours of listening/recording on drops and it never made me bored. it was simply amazing listening experience. i wish i could do something similar with wind. all done with contact mic at a small yard at my house. …later mixed with sampled recordings from a resonant wine glass. i really enjoyed playing a wine glass. loved its pure sine wave tone.

http://soundcloud.com/teum11/drops

under_the_bridge

Last night, i had a night recording/playing session just for myself under the bridge near a river in seoul. As sound sources, I used…contact mics(piezo/w preamp), amplifiers, loudspeakers, a (distorted) square oscillator, passing subways, and a metal column which is attached to a leg of railroad bridge. Basically I made out noise/resonated feedback sound with this setting. I loved this hidden outdoor performance… Few people passed by me but they would’ve never thought that I was actually playing things so seriously…

Recording was done with zoom h4.

My handmade preamp/amp frequently captured some japanese radio signals, which came to be a part of my session…

Based on recordings, I did arrangements and rough mixing later giving it reverb/delay.

http://soundcloud.com/teum11/bridge_feedback

[workshop] Sound Treasure Hunt

Recently, I participated in a youth media camp as a tutor. It was organized by kuma, a youth center in bucheon and the camp took place on a small island for 3 days. I gave out a sound workshop called ‘소리보물찾기’(Sound Treasure Hunt) with 10 kids. On 1st day, we had a walk for an hour around the village with listening to sounds, recording them, and wrote sonic details of them on soundcard. And on 2nd day, based on those activities, we draw a sound map showing 12 sounds that we liked and turned it into an audio guide. On 3rd day, we had a quick walk with other kids from different workshops all together with the map and audio guide.

Here’s what we made!

Sound Treasure Hunt by Jiyeon Kim

[interview] Blow-Up magazine

Few month ago, I had a quite intense interview with Leandro Pisano from italian Blow-Up magazine and it was printed out on the May issue. Leandro is also a curator of Interferenze new arts festival, which has unique program like Click’n’Food, Third Soundscape: for a database of Irpinia Sonic Landscape. Their interest is in rurality, sustainability and territory.   

[performance] Cafe O:wl - field recording sound performance

Cafe O:wl - field recording sound performance by Jiyeon Kim

On 27 June, at a small cafe ‘Cafe O:wl’, I gave out 20 mins of sound performance with a group of people who makes music based on field recording. I forgot to record my session on that day, so I upload the recording track of rehearsal.
For the set, I used Tascam 4 track cassette recorder with handmade loop tapes which contains 12 samples from my sound library. And for live input, I used pebbles and leaves, which were processed mainly in Looper in ableton live.

[workshop] Sound Postcard

Last february, I participated in sound workshop as a tutor and our mission was to make sound postcard! Kids loved whatever they were listening through mic/headphone. They endlessly kept making stories!

http://sound-postcard.bandcamp.com/

[mix] Urban Oscillators

Urban Oscillators - SoundLocalities Mix by Jiyeon Kim

This mix was done for SoundLocalities Mix Compilation.

I selected 6 sounds with two rules regardless of their origins and context: 1) having ir/regular rhythmic patterns in themselves. 2) having distinctive frequency domain in which sounds are mainly unfolded. And then, I tried to make all these frequencies and rhythms blended into one another or sometimes one beat the other. 

*List of used sounds

Arnaud Jacobs, Tuckstaking, Brussels
Bram Bosteels, Underground Tube Network, Ghent
Cedric Maridet, Pile Driver / to DaiLong Wan, Hong Kong
Adam Asnan, Investiture of the Brown Scapula, London
Will Montgomery, Albert Embankment 2, London

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For the project, I contributed some recordings and had interview with the project producer, Ashley Wong. 

http://soundlocalities.tumblr.com/

[mix] Ebb and Flow

Ebb and Flow by Jiyeon Kim

Recorded and Mixed
by Jiyeon Kim

Track List

1. a beach tinkled
2. stir in dune
3. afternoon, sunset and morning

Recorded on 14-16 April, in Taean and Anmyeondo in Chungcheongnam-do

*Equipments: Zoom h4n, MKH 416p, Aquarian H2a