I haven’t taken care so much for few months of my blog, but I am happy to come back with this new video recording of my new piece, “Hui-Mo-Ri.”

The instrument was built by a friend of mine Wenchin. She’s a performer/artist, and this is the first instrument she has  ever built. Due to its complications that all the woods should have holes and metal strings/motors should be attached to them, and so on, it is quite fragile, but it worked at the performance. 🙂

The instrument itself should vibrate itself by the motor, but the connection was not strongly attached enough to do so. So the live electronics was quite essential. There are two microphones attached (a DPA and a Piezo) underneath the spinning wooden plates, and under the metal plate in the middles, there is a transducer that is supposed to create a feedback with the body.

I gave some additions to this: two sticks with the contact microphone attached. Those two sticks include metal pins and iron strings too that can interact well with the feedback.

Mainly you cannot hear the original ‘instrument’ sound there. I gave all additional processing with electronics. All are realtime processing programmed on SuperCollider(of course).

I was quite happy with the sound results and the structure. There is no very detailed score, but the entire structure that I composed.

In this première of the piece, I am playing with the percussionist MeiYi Lee, my dearest friend and we make a number of performance together as a duo.

Oh, and ‘Hui-Mo-Ri’ is one of the traditional Korean Rhythm structure, that is supposedly the fastest in tempo. It also means ‘blowing all together’ as a strong wind would possibly do.

I hope you enjoy.

**people who is around Utrecht in the Netherlands at 8th of Feb, This piece will be played by Sonolab Duo at RASA. Here’s the info.