Listening to Iruma
Angela Kim
Art and music have always developed in parallel with one another throughout the course of history (impressionism) and these both arts need to have a sentiment to invent a great work of art and very important for artists. For this essay, I thought I will write about western music or relationship between so many different cultural music but decided to write about the sound of instrument (piano) and my description of impression after the piano recital in last year.
How should I define and conclude if somebody asked me what exact meaning of the sound? I don’t think I could answer easily for that question. What would be accepted as a good music or performance to be impressed greatly and what’s not right music? Perhaps, this would be one of the questions from so many other questions about music. A deep study about “sound” which is using as a material of sound would be very important to gain some knowledge about music. Everyone have different taste and their favourite foods or styles are all different. Also, not every sound of music are correct and become people’s favourite music.
I studied about forerunner of sound to gain more of basic knowledge. For this essay, I will write about the sound, tone and about my favorite pianist “Iruma” who is very special to me. Joseph Sauveur (1653~1716) is a scholar from France who made a great success towards the study of sound and his invaluable contributions to the development of sound. Also he studied an overtone of chord and explained about the principle of vibration. He measured the number of vibrations through a gear and siren.
Understanding about a musical instrument would be the most important thing before I study about sound and music. I would like to express the quality of tone from some words as warmness, coldness, softness, sharpness, and sometimes harsh or fresh. When the sound touches people’s sensory organs and it form the perfection of many different feelings from the sound. For example, let’s say there are 2 sounds in same volume. Those will be reaching to same place. However, between these 2 sounds, people able to remember the sound, which feels alive and comes close to their minds. And that will give an effect to sense of touch, even stimulate sight and finally become a motive.
Eruma’s music is the one of great music that touches people soul. He’s not just playing the note but he played minutely and combined with piano between the vibration of sound and the connection of music. He has a great ability but beside, he got more valuable abilities which could inspire to the music from so many experiences and cultivated mind. Some musician think that is not very hard to make people impressed by their music but not everyone has ability to touch audiences’ soul. When I listen to so many different love songs from all the different singer, I see only few of them could song correctly and express their feeling which comes from deep in their heart. I could recognize how their love was like by listening to their sounds.
I started questioning myself about the meaning of fundamental sound. I thought I know about music very well and had confidence about myself that I have enough knowledge. Most of friends ask me to recommend good music and they said I’m the one who know about music very well and every songs I recommend are nice. But I realize I didn’t even know about basic sound and what are the real great sounds to listen. Therefore I asked my mom about it because she graduated from the music school in KOREA and her major was violin. We had a conversation about music over the long haul. First of all, my mom said the sound has to be delivered correctly to listeners. The good sound should be vividly spread out and make people impress even move them deeply into their minds.
For example, if there’s a huge music hall with 5th floor and the sound should be reached for all of the audience and that is not easy. If someone who has a wrong vocalization and came up on the stage and shout for sing a great song, the audience on the first floor might show respect by his solemn sound but the audience on the 4th floor might not be impressed at all from the sound. In other hand, if he play one song properly and express a feeling of grief then some audience even on the 3rd floor could be moved to tear. It would be heard as an elegant sound if people catch the distant sound correctly. Therefore some people listen to the music at the back seat on purpose to grasp the correct sound. The principal of the sound and frequency, I could never say the correct definition of sound but the existence of the sound is absolutely important and necessary for sure.
I’m going to write a description of my impressions from the performance last year in KOREA. There was a piano performance of Iruma at Seoul SAMSUNG hall. I wanted to listen at firsthand two of his best music “kiss the rain” and “may be”. Honestly, I was not very interested in piano music before coming to CANADA. I felt boring and sleepy while listening to the piano music and I couldn’t’ find any interest and didn’t attracted at all from the new age music. Even though I learnt piano when I was young, I was still wondering why people were so interested in listing to the melody of piano. I couldn’t understand people who love piano music because I thought great music should have lyrics. Also for me, those different sounds were all heard as a same sound.
However; when I was an international student in Vancouver and away from my hometown, I spent most of the time alone, by myself, and there were a lot of opportunities to be contiguous with the melody of piano at my uncle’s church. Every time I felt anxious, insecurity and oppressed by something, the sound of piano had comforted my feelings. The decisive fact of I started to love piano and Iruma is because of the unforgettable performance which was present from my first love few years ago. He played “perhaps love,” and “kiss the rain”.
In church, some pastors encourage flocks to not to listen to new age music because the origin of a word of New Age meant Satan. However, I think there is no greater music which could make people peaceful other than New Age music. Some people might feel flat from the melody of piano but while I listen to Iruma’s music on the performance, tens of spectrums approached me in a variety of different ways, under a roaring light. He was sitting in front of black Grand piano and his appearance was gorgeous. For the opening music, “Tears on love” from the love scene in his album played quietly. As a title, it reminds me some kind of images of sorrow story and sad separation. Every time his fingers skimmed over the keyboard, each notes of his music which has so much vitality just overwhelmed my heart.
Finally I realize why people recommend me to attend for Iruma’s piano recital. The refrain of sound was Barely connected lightly to start and heard as the sound is getting to loud and expose out some sadness. It was totally the sound of Heartbreaking love. In the songs “If I could see you again”, the notes between right rhythm summed up plentifully and gave me a feeling of cheerfulness. As I listen to it, the image of fresh verdure through the outside window covered with raindrops. I didn’t know why that image is keep popping on my head.
At a moment listening up to middle track, I’ve realized that image was the one that I saw on the front page of Iruma’s fan page and the background music was “If I could see you again”. I was anxious about some friends from on line from the fan page. We were exchanging words each other about mere trifle very often and the music gave me pleasure to get back good memories and made me indulge in reminisces. Pictures or music could bring back one’s precious memories. If we see some pictures that we took even in the very long time ago, some of memories would flash. It’s same as sounds. I remember which song is the one that I listened with tear in a sad situation thinking about something or listened in the car on the way trip and singing loud after the song. I remember vividly how my mood was while I listen to that music and it’s that important
The song which made me even more sad, and the music that I listened with my lover in the past and how happy that moment was, Iruma’s sound calls back all the memories while I’m listening to music. His song had almost very similar patterns but I liked the unique charming harmony of his own sound. All the melodies of Iruma awakens my susceptibilities and my old memories. His sound is very attractive and gentle. When he talked honestly about his childhood and his experiences in England, I felt he is the same humdrum human just like me but has more talent with piano. Therefore, the emotions he put on his songs and the feeling I had could possibly come to a mutual understanding. Sometimes, the songs could transmit the actual meaning deeper than a lot of speeches, and his few minutes of melodies described exactly rather than hundreds of words of speech. I consider music as a high and noble thing which is necessary for my life. Music is the most abstract art, It represents nothing but itself, and could be expressed various of feeling and mood in one piece of song. “Listening” is the same as “hearing” about as much as “thinking” is the same as “feeling”.
Art and music have always developed in parallel with one another throughout the course of history (impressionism) and these both arts need to have a sentiment to invent a great work of art and very important for artists. For this essay, I thought I will write about western music or relationship between so many different cultural music but decided to write about the sound of instrument (piano) and my description of impression after the piano recital in last year.
How should I define and conclude if somebody asked me what exact meaning of the sound? I don’t think I could answer easily for that question. What would be accepted as a good music or performance to be impressed greatly and what’s not right music? Perhaps, this would be one of the questions from so many other questions about music. A deep study about “sound” which is using as a material of sound would be very important to gain some knowledge about music. Everyone have different taste and their favourite foods or styles are all different. Also, not every sound of music are correct and become people’s favourite music.
I studied about forerunner of sound to gain more of basic knowledge. For this essay, I will write about the sound, tone and about my favorite pianist “Iruma” who is very special to me. Joseph Sauveur (1653~1716) is a scholar from France who made a great success towards the study of sound and his invaluable contributions to the development of sound. Also he studied an overtone of chord and explained about the principle of vibration. He measured the number of vibrations through a gear and siren.
Understanding about a musical instrument would be the most important thing before I study about sound and music. I would like to express the quality of tone from some words as warmness, coldness, softness, sharpness, and sometimes harsh or fresh. When the sound touches people’s sensory organs and it form the perfection of many different feelings from the sound. For example, let’s say there are 2 sounds in same volume. Those will be reaching to same place. However, between these 2 sounds, people able to remember the sound, which feels alive and comes close to their minds. And that will give an effect to sense of touch, even stimulate sight and finally become a motive.
Eruma’s music is the one of great music that touches people soul. He’s not just playing the note but he played minutely and combined with piano between the vibration of sound and the connection of music. He has a great ability but beside, he got more valuable abilities which could inspire to the music from so many experiences and cultivated mind. Some musician think that is not very hard to make people impressed by their music but not everyone has ability to touch audiences’ soul. When I listen to so many different love songs from all the different singer, I see only few of them could song correctly and express their feeling which comes from deep in their heart. I could recognize how their love was like by listening to their sounds.
I started questioning myself about the meaning of fundamental sound. I thought I know about music very well and had confidence about myself that I have enough knowledge. Most of friends ask me to recommend good music and they said I’m the one who know about music very well and every songs I recommend are nice. But I realize I didn’t even know about basic sound and what are the real great sounds to listen. Therefore I asked my mom about it because she graduated from the music school in KOREA and her major was violin. We had a conversation about music over the long haul. First of all, my mom said the sound has to be delivered correctly to listeners. The good sound should be vividly spread out and make people impress even move them deeply into their minds.
For example, if there’s a huge music hall with 5th floor and the sound should be reached for all of the audience and that is not easy. If someone who has a wrong vocalization and came up on the stage and shout for sing a great song, the audience on the first floor might show respect by his solemn sound but the audience on the 4th floor might not be impressed at all from the sound. In other hand, if he play one song properly and express a feeling of grief then some audience even on the 3rd floor could be moved to tear. It would be heard as an elegant sound if people catch the distant sound correctly. Therefore some people listen to the music at the back seat on purpose to grasp the correct sound. The principal of the sound and frequency, I could never say the correct definition of sound but the existence of the sound is absolutely important and necessary for sure.
I’m going to write a description of my impressions from the performance last year in KOREA. There was a piano performance of Iruma at Seoul SAMSUNG hall. I wanted to listen at firsthand two of his best music “kiss the rain” and “may be”. Honestly, I was not very interested in piano music before coming to CANADA. I felt boring and sleepy while listening to the piano music and I couldn’t’ find any interest and didn’t attracted at all from the new age music. Even though I learnt piano when I was young, I was still wondering why people were so interested in listing to the melody of piano. I couldn’t understand people who love piano music because I thought great music should have lyrics. Also for me, those different sounds were all heard as a same sound.
However; when I was an international student in Vancouver and away from my hometown, I spent most of the time alone, by myself, and there were a lot of opportunities to be contiguous with the melody of piano at my uncle’s church. Every time I felt anxious, insecurity and oppressed by something, the sound of piano had comforted my feelings. The decisive fact of I started to love piano and Iruma is because of the unforgettable performance which was present from my first love few years ago. He played “perhaps love,” and “kiss the rain”.
In church, some pastors encourage flocks to not to listen to new age music because the origin of a word of New Age meant Satan. However, I think there is no greater music which could make people peaceful other than New Age music. Some people might feel flat from the melody of piano but while I listen to Iruma’s music on the performance, tens of spectrums approached me in a variety of different ways, under a roaring light. He was sitting in front of black Grand piano and his appearance was gorgeous. For the opening music, “Tears on love” from the love scene in his album played quietly. As a title, it reminds me some kind of images of sorrow story and sad separation. Every time his fingers skimmed over the keyboard, each notes of his music which has so much vitality just overwhelmed my heart.
Finally I realize why people recommend me to attend for Iruma’s piano recital. The refrain of sound was Barely connected lightly to start and heard as the sound is getting to loud and expose out some sadness. It was totally the sound of Heartbreaking love. In the songs “If I could see you again”, the notes between right rhythm summed up plentifully and gave me a feeling of cheerfulness. As I listen to it, the image of fresh verdure through the outside window covered with raindrops. I didn’t know why that image is keep popping on my head.
At a moment listening up to middle track, I’ve realized that image was the one that I saw on the front page of Iruma’s fan page and the background music was “If I could see you again”. I was anxious about some friends from on line from the fan page. We were exchanging words each other about mere trifle very often and the music gave me pleasure to get back good memories and made me indulge in reminisces. Pictures or music could bring back one’s precious memories. If we see some pictures that we took even in the very long time ago, some of memories would flash. It’s same as sounds. I remember which song is the one that I listened with tear in a sad situation thinking about something or listened in the car on the way trip and singing loud after the song. I remember vividly how my mood was while I listen to that music and it’s that important
The song which made me even more sad, and the music that I listened with my lover in the past and how happy that moment was, Iruma’s sound calls back all the memories while I’m listening to music. His song had almost very similar patterns but I liked the unique charming harmony of his own sound. All the melodies of Iruma awakens my susceptibilities and my old memories. His sound is very attractive and gentle. When he talked honestly about his childhood and his experiences in England, I felt he is the same humdrum human just like me but has more talent with piano. Therefore, the emotions he put on his songs and the feeling I had could possibly come to a mutual understanding. Sometimes, the songs could transmit the actual meaning deeper than a lot of speeches, and his few minutes of melodies described exactly rather than hundreds of words of speech. I consider music as a high and noble thing which is necessary for my life. Music is the most abstract art, It represents nothing but itself, and could be expressed various of feeling and mood in one piece of song. “Listening” is the same as “hearing” about as much as “thinking” is the same as “feeling”.
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