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The soundtrack of the [Land of the Morning Light] consists of music that'll give you an enjoyable experience of gugak. The goal of this project was to give you the experience of classic, traditional gugak played on modern instruments in a melody that expresses the beauty of Korea in the [Land of the Morning Light]. The fifth composition of the 6-part Land of the Morning Light soundtrack, “Samulnori“, was birthed by studying the rhythm of the beautiful traditional Korean Samulnori music and reiterating it with computer music. “Samulnori“, which can be directly translated to “the play of four objects“, uses four percussion instruments where each represents a facet of nature: the “kkwaenggwari“ as thunder, the “janggu“ as rain, the “buk“ as clouds, and the “jing“ as wind. As this genre is rhythmically based and devoid of melody, the resulting music is both exuberant and emotionally charged, is sometimes deeply profound,
