Rhythm and Movement

I enjoy martial arts, and am interested in martial arts of the world. And as I am practicing Taekwondo, I know the importance of maintaining one’s own rhythm. If you lose your own rhythm, by being dragged into the pace of the opponent it is more likely that you will lose the match. Hmm… maybe it is easier to understand this aspect of martial arts if you think of when you are playing arcade games like Street Fighter.

Thus, I invested some time in searching for good drum rhythms. The following, which I’ve discovered in vadrum’s blog, is one of the sounds that caught my attention. I wish you spend some time in listening to it!

 

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Photo Credits: “African Drum” by whiteafrican on Flickr

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Piano and a Man

It seems that in playing piano, we need more than just two hands. Last Saturday, I went to a solo piano concert by Jeongwon Kim (also known as Julius Kim). He is a quite popular pianist in Korea, appearing in a movie called “For Horowitz.” I won’t say that his sounds and skills were the best I’ve ever heard. (Personally, I thought he made a mistake in arranging the pieces.) But I was definitely moved by his passion. He hopped, ducked, paused, and startled to the wave of sounds, closing his eyes. His whole body followed the movement of his fingers. Piano seemed to be an instrument played not by fingers alone but by the whole body and inner passion.

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Photo Credits: “piano inclinato” by regolare on Flickr

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Submerged in the Nature

Whenever I want to be completely isolated from man-made sounds, I climb a hill and stop at the entrance to a water reservoir, the 3rd Bundang Water Reservior to be exact. The reservoir itself is a restricted area, but the surrounding area is designated as a public park with rugged trails, thick bushes and tall trees. The nature is surprisingly well kept or rather it is left nearly untouched.

As I approach the summit, I can smell freshness in the air. Then, my ears become busy as a new sound kept adding to the previous ones, as if I listen to Johann Pachelbel’s Canon. As a loud sound fades away, the sounds that I couldn’t hear before fade in steadily one by one, forming the harmony of the nature. Especially I hear many different types of insects chirp in different frequencies and tones. Birds (I think they are sparrows and swallows) are hovering about. The zephyr is gently touching trees, making tree leaves tremble. The sky is somewhat covered with high, floating clouds. But the sky not covered by the clouds is azure and is like pastel shades on a paper. I sit down on a weedy field near to the summit. As time passes, I am submerged in the nature.

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Photo Credits: Original

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