User:Violinlover777

My Musical Background

When I was 5, I began to play the violin. The style of my teacher’s teaching of classical music was tough for me because she emphasized only classical music. Until when I became 15 years old, I had to listen to only classical music because my teacher told me to. That’s why my mother also pushed me to listen to classical music all the time. My violin teacher said if I am getting familiar with different kinds of music, I might not become a good classical player. So she wanted me to really focus on classical music. If I listened to pop or different kinds of music from classical, my mother took it away from me. But I didn’t give up listening to pop because I loved Michael Jackson’s songs and that kind of music. When the sleeping time came I went to bed with the CD player and listened to Michael Jackson secretly. It was the sweetest moment in my childhood. Although the process of classical training was hard for me with all the practice and tight schedule for lessons and school, the good thing was I was living on a beautiful island. My hometown Jeju island is a volcanic island, very natural and it became a ‘seven wonders of nature’ by UNESCO. Whenever I go to the ocean or the mountain, I got so much inspiration for music. For example when I played the piece Mozart violin concerto, I struggled because I couldn't understand the feelings of the piece. It didn’t require high technique of skills but needed enough expressing skills. I felt like my music had no heart. So I tried to get some inspiration and tried to express music from my heart. I thought about flowers and their colors. The most important concern about music for me is feeling and expressing emotion. Even though someone is a professor of music school, if his or her playing doesn’t have enough feeling, I don't think it is good music. I wanted to become a violinist who can play with heart and great feeling. For that I went to the beautiful places to meditate and refresh myself. I closed my eyes and heard the sound of waves or the wind. I could jam with birds singing and play some tunes with the trees. It helped me a lot to improve to play the violin with expressing from my heart.

My Music

I am playing as a violinist and working as a music therapist and I compose sometimes. When people ask me to join the recording session I make music for them, and I go to the facility and use my music to work with people who have disabilities. During working on all kinds of music, I always put my heart in that because I believe in the power of music and also believe that music can change the world. I am trying to make my music with genuine and honest heart in love. Since I am making healing music, those are basic requirements, also I need more positive energy when composing a song or playing a tune. My audience can be anyone but I would like to play for people who are having a hard time or having difficulties. I hope that music can support them to make their mood better and feel energy from my music. My goal for being a music therapist is to work with many clients, especially depression clients. As I am from South Korea, I am always thinking about my country; I would like to play for North Korean defectors too. Since we are living in a world of media, I can bring my music to them through the Internet. Also if I can travel and play live music in many places will be good too because the live music is a good tool to communicate with the audience.

When I make music, many of times I use Korean traditional instruments. For example I arrange my tune for Korean traditional drum “ Jang Gu” rather than only use western drum set. Also the pentatonic scale from Korea is very useful to make my own music character because many people are interested in Asian music. I used the pentatonic scale and ¾ beat from Korean traditional music with Korean drum few times. I think as becoming a good musician, the background philosophy toward music is very important. Music is everywhere and also everyone’s taste of music is different, music has such a broad world ever. For that I hope that I can have my own character of music, something has a healing power inside: with love from my heart.