Updated ideas

We would like to make more images (related to the Waste Land poem),using the movement of text and also mixing it with the dance movie we already shoot before.
For the sound effect, we will definitely include the English version of the poem.

We will make sure with the Skyp and get connected with a dancer. The the piano will be surrounded by 3 screens: 1st one for the image of a dancer (right side), 2nd one for the text of the poem (left side), 3rd one for the image of ‘loneliness’ (in the middle, facing the piano)

I am learning so much while I am participating the final project and I must say that I am very excited for the progress that we are making. My other team members are truly wonderful and inspiring that I can not wait to see how our final product will come out later.

Piano improvisation with 'loneliness' image

This is the one we played in the class on Tuesday. Piano improvisation, 'loneliness' image and sound effect of the poem.

Piano improvisation with a dancer

Waste Land By T.S Eliot

T.S. Eliot (1888–1965). The Waste Land. 1922.

The Waste Land (in English)

I. THE BURIAL OF THE DEAD
APRIL is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain. Winter kept us warm, covering Earth in forgetful snow, feeding A little life with dried tubers. Summer surprised us, coming over the Starnbergersee With a shower of rain; we stopped in the colonnade, And went on in sunlight, into the Hofgarten, And drank coffee, and talked for an hour. Bin gar keine Russin, stamm' aus Litauen, echt deutsch. And when we were children, staying at the archduke's, My cousin's, he took me out on a sled, And I was frightened. He said, Marie, Marie, hold on tight. And down we went. In the mountains, there you feel free. I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.

황무지 (The Waste Land) (in Korean)
1. 죽은 자의 매장4월은 가장 잔인한 달죽은 땅에서 라일락을 키워내고추억과 욕정을 뒤섞고잠든 뿌리를 봄비로 깨운다.겨울은 오히려 따뜻했다.잘 잊게 해주는 눈으로 대지를 덮고마른 구근 (球根)으로 약간의 목숨을 대어주었다.슈타른 버거호 너머로 소나기와 함께 갑자기 여름이 왔지요.우리는 주랑(柱廊)에 머물렀다가햇빛이 나자 호프가르텐 공원에 가서커피를 들며 한 시간 동안 얘기 했어요.저는 러시아인이 아닙니다. 출생은 리투아니아지만진짜 독일인입니다.어려서 사톤 태공의 집에 머물렀을 때 설매를 태워줬는데 겁이 났어요.그는 말했죠. 마리 마리 꼭 잡아.그리곤 쏜살같이 내려갔지요.산에 오면 자유로운 느낌이 드는 군요.밤에는 대개 책을 읽고 겨울엔 남쪽에 갑니다.

Loneliness

For our final project, we wanted to use materials that we have been learning in the class this semester. We decided to make our project based on ‘Loneliness’. Our first plan was putting the image, a dance and music together in one performance. And Youngjoo came up with a brilliant idea that making a sound-recording of T.S.Eliot`s ‘Waste land’ in Korean and Chinese. So it was going very well until we hit the problem with Skype connection with our dancer. After spending 2 hours on this, we could not hold the dancer any longer that we just wanted to record the dancer`s movement itself. (we could use them as the part of our image later)
After all, I improvised on the piano with the images and the sound-effect of T.S.Eliot`s ‘Waste land’. I was so inspired by following the movement of the image and the text of this beautiful poem to improvise the ‘Loneliness’ on the piano. It was definitely something to think about in my near future that I could do this in one of my concert!

Dinu Ghezzo Retirement Concert

My experience in Dr.Ghezzo`s Retirement Concert was truly extraordinary. Being out there, setting up all the equipments and wires(!), and taking a full responsibility of running a camera during a live performance were definitely different from just learning it from the class. Obviously, I am still beginner at internet2 and I was worried about my mission(?) that if I could run a camera without any mistake. I had to share a charger for the camera with Kay (another camera person) and we were making sure that the camera would not run out of battery during the performance. I was very excited using the headset to communicate with our crew, it was something that I never experienced before (and maybe in the near future..). It was very real and we were updating each other`s position and preparation in the backstage. It was a pity that we had some problem with the connection to UCI and we could not see much of them, I guess we learned that we need to have a back-up plan when we prepare this kind of a live event.
I feel very lucky to be part of this event and it was such a pleasure working with our crew who were willing to help each other`s and well-cooperated.

Dual Live Performance over Internet2

To display the capabilities of Internet2 for the faculty at the University of Notre Dame, Carolyn Plummer and her twin sister Kathryn at Vanderbilt University performed a dual live performance. Carolyn is an accomplished violin player and her sister Kathryn is an accomplished viola player. When the two combined their instruments across Internet2, it created a beautiful way to enjoy the benefits of Internet2 and the performers' abilities. Maybe for the next performance, they could include an orchestra from different area and play a gorgeous Mozart Concertante for the violin and viola!

http://internet2.nd.edu/internet2_event_pictures/index.html

Yo-Yo Ma`s Soul of the Tango

Yo-Yo Ma has always been the front-runner when it comes to experiencing new genre in music. In 1997, he has another big success on his new album called “Soul of the Tango”. In this fantastic collection of Astor Piazzolla's best known tangos, Ma's breathtaking technique fuses with other instrumentalists, who happen to be Piazzolla's closest colleagues when he was alive. Instead of obtruding with his virtuous play on the cello, Ma's cello plays the role of a coordinator as he seams soul into the ensemble with a wide range of instruments.

What strikes me the most in this album is that in one of the songs - Tango Remembrances - Ma participates a posthumous collaboration (in 1997) with a Piazzolla’s recording in 1987. I could not believe at first, it was even impossible to imagine. The enormous development of audio technology created the miracle. After the recording session, Yo-Yo Ma said, ”Now, through the miracle of modern technology, Piazzolla and I have gotten even closer: Now, I feel I have a real sense of how Piazzolla breathed”

As a pianist, I am hoping that maybe I would get a chance to be able to play Mozart Sonata for Two Pianos with my legendary pianist “Emil Gilels” (1916-1985) in the near future. I am pretty sure that they will be able to put us on the same stage by then.

Master Class with David Geber

It seems pretty obvious that the biggest advantage of videoconferencing over high –performance networks is the real-time accessibility and less cost of physical transportation. I happened to find this great video clip about the Master class which University of Oklahoma School of Music cello student Erin Dunn had with David Geber, Chairman of Strings at Manhattan School of Music on 10 May 2001.

While I was watching this video clip, it reminded me of an old friend of mind who was studying the cello in London during the early 1990s. He used to pay a visit to Paris for private lesson with a very famous cellist almost every week. He definitely enjoyed having lessons with him, and found himself improved a lot. However, as I remember, the only complaint he had was that paying for traveling every week was way too expensive and it took him entire weekend. We all know that things have changed in a very convenient way.

I am curious about how good the quality of the audio sounds, but in the view of the teacher demonstrating to the student how to use the bow, how to improve the vibratos and etc can be as good as and as real as having a lesson in the same room. This fascinating way of music education will open the new door for musicians all over the world and inspire them.


http://www.internet2.edu/arts/member-education.html#cello