Composers' Forum Spring 2019

Last Monday at Composer´s Forum we had someone that talked us about the nuts and bolts of his creative process apart from his composition process or the creation process of his pieces. Daniel Wohl quickly combined acoustic instruments with electronics as a composer in his first pieces. Nevertheless, he told us that he uses electronics to explore and get to the sounds that he does not know. Electronics is furthermore used in his pieces for obtaining the unreachable sounds by means of the acoustic instruments that feature a lot of the concert music this days. His very own music (maybe the music he writes for films and TV also, with its limitations) is conceived mainly sonically. In the first piece he showed us I could see some influences by Webern, Ligeti and Gorecki. As for the electronics, which I liked, it was curious to see that although electronics in his work are normally generated from the acoustic instruments of the piece (creating hyperinstruments), the electronics...

            This week’s guest in composer’s forum, Bora Yoon, (multi-instrumentalist, singer, and composer), really inspired me in many ways I had never experienced before.             Her perspective on the relationship between sound and space, and between spirituality and sound completely fascinated me. She manipulated common sounds and vessels through which sounds can be created into really beautiful and moving music. To me, it wasn’t just music; rather, it was a total sonic experience that effected the mind, body, and soul.             The first example of her ability to create music in this way was in the very first piece she showed the class, which she explained she normally opened or closed her performances with. In this piece, she used a looper to layer sounds using objects, voice, and common instruments. While I foun...