Threnody, installation view, Kyung Hee University Museum of Arts (Black Powder + White Party, 13 Sep – 19 Oct 2007), sound installation (2 channel audio, hand-made speakers, wall-mounted text, dimensions variable)

Threnody was originally created for the exhibition Black Powder + White Party at Kyung Hee University Museum of Arts, Seoul, South Korea, 13 Sep - 19 Oct 2007.

It is a sound installation inspired by Korean Royal Ancestral Shrine Music. Elements from this traditional form of Korean music were used as source material in the creation of a 20 minute electroacoustic composition. The sounds of string and wind instruments, percussion, chimes and vocals were looped, pitch-shifted, time-stretched, layered and digitally processed to form immersive harmonic drones and shifting rhythmic textures.