There's a lot to see during the Olympics Closing Ceremony, and a lot to obsess over. If you managed to drag your eyes off of Yang Tae-hwan, the 13-year-old guitarist lighting up that stage, then you ...

I PLAY TWO STRINGED INSTRUMENTS AND. ONE DRUM. NINE YEAR OLD LILY IS PLAYING AN INSTRUMENT THAT KOREANS HAVE PLAYED SINCE THE SIXTH CENTURY SILLA PERIOD. BUSTLE. APPROXIMATELY 1500 YEARS AGO. LILY HAS ...

On April 3rd, hundreds gathered at the Korean Cultural Center in London, UK. They were there to see an exhibition titled "The Sounds of Korea Heard Through Science." While there were officials from ...

The Department of Korean Music was founded in 1959 with the purpose to educate talented students in the field of Korean traditional music. Since the beginning, the SNU Department of Korean Music has ...

Masters of traditional Korean music will take audiences on an odyssey through the sounds of the stylistically diverse folk music known as gugak in performances March 19 and 20 at Brandeis. The ...

Sitting cross-legged on a black rectangular stage, Juyoung “Peter” Lim rapidly strikes a small, handheld gong, creating a high-pitched, metallic sound. Around him, several others follow his lead, ...

NEW YORK — Gugak, Korean traditional music, is an umbrella term that includes both court and folk instruments. But the two couldn’t be more different. Court music tends to be ritualistic, its ...

Sangjaru, Korean folk fusion band, collaborated with Michael Gould in a blend of traditional Korean music, gypsy swing and ...

To mark the 60th anniversary of its foundation, the National Gugak Center is displaying a collection of historical relics from traditional musical instruments to books and sheets. The special ...

The Korean Cultural Center in Shanghai, China, in collaboration with the National Gugak Center of Korea, is presenting through June 12 "The Musical Joys of Korea: Exploring a World of Traditional ...

Yoon Jeong Heo is so active that it’s almost surprising she doesn’t single-handedly generate combustible energy during the course of one of her average working days. But there is nothing remotely ...

UCSC music professor David Evan Jones’s piece, ” for daegum and computer sounds, is one of a series of his recent compositions that use computer processed versions of actual news broadcasts in ...