40 Days ~ v i r t u a l WORLD TOUR of MUSIC

This virtual tour began with the initial crowdfund (via kickstarter) for the Ureuk World Music House which lasted 40 days.  Each day is a look at a different musician in a different country playing a different instrument!  Whew ~ it's quite a journey. . .  가자! चेलिये ! Let's Go!
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Day 40 ~ DAEGEUM

This is a picture of Sang-Woo Kang, my "sabunim" (master teacher), playing daegeum bamboo flute in the 

Ureuk World Music House.

To hear his music, and his thoughts about Korean traditional music and how he feels playing in a hanok,

click on the link to watch the video filmed in the Ureuk World Music House in December 2012.

THANK YOU for joining this Musical World Tour, hopefully you have enjoyed the musical explorations of these 40 days as much as I have.  Leave a comment to contact us about the Ureuk World Music House restoration project, and LIKE

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There are more musical journeys ahead ~ and hopefully one day you can join us at the stage of the Ureuk World Music House in Chungju, South Korea!

Day 39 ~ Korea Week ~ TAEPYEONGSO

The instrument above accompanied the King on all walks.

The typical taegpyeongso is a small reed instrument with a sound that might pass for  saxophone.

Learn more here - KBS World Radio ~ Sounds of Korea

This is a video of taepyeongso solo with a small traditional ensemble.

And, here is a taepyeongso playing with an entire traditional orchestra!

Day 38 ~ Korea Week ~ BUK

Buk is one of the main Korean percussion instruments. (wikidetails here)

An all-percussion traditional "genre" of music is called 'Samulnori" and includes the buk, the hourglass drum chang-gu, the small gong gwengari and the large gong jing.  

Chungju has a famous samulnori group, "Mulgae."

This samulnori video opens with buk.

A famous cutting-edge Korean percussionist who seems to have found the overlap junction of traditional music and modern musical yearning is Choi, Sori.  

This 40-day Virtual World Tour of Music correlates with the World Music House kickstarter crowdfund. (Click the orange words for more details!)

Day 37 ~ Korea Week ~ HAEGEUM

Haegeum is a 2-string bowed instrument.  

It is made of 8 materials: gold, rock, thread, bamboo, gourd, soil, leather, and wood.

The haegeum has a 4-stringed North Korean sister, the sohaegeum.

This is a video of a haegeum solo accompanied by piano; part of a haegeum playlist.

This 40-day Virtual World Tour of Music correlates with the World Music House kickstarter crowdfund. (Click the orange words for more details!)

Day 36 ~ Korea Week ~ SAENG HWANG

Saeng Hwang, the instrument I find most mystical and other-wordly of all Korean instruments,

 is a wind instrument made of 17 bamboo pipes; a prototype of the pipe organ.

In this video Hyo-Young Kim is playing saeng hwang with a singer, the piece is aptly called 

"Dream Within a Dream"

A dear friend, Jaron Lanier explains how this instrument is actually the origin of computers in his TEDxSF talk, and he plays the Lao cousin of saeng hwang, the Khaen.

This 40-day Virtual World Tour of Music correlates with the World Music House kickstarter crowdfund. (Click the orange words for more details!)

Day 35 ~ Korea Week ~ KOMUNGO

This famous painting by 18th century artist known as Hyewon depicts a woman playing komungo.

The komungo has raised bridges (like other Korean instruments), and raised frets (unlike other Korean instruments).  There are 6 silk-twisted strings, and it is plucked with a bamboo stick.

Komungo Sanjo by Sun Hee Lee.

 This is an extraordinary art/tango-esque/komungo video from the Geomungo factory!

For something a little trippy, here's Jin Hi Kim's electric komungo.

This 40-day Virtual World Tour of Music correlates with the World Music House kickstarter crowdfund. (Click the orange words for more details!)