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<\/td>\n<\/tr>\nMusic director Lee Min-hwi. 2023.07.03. (Photo = Provided by the director) photo@newsis.com *Resale and DB prohibited<\/p>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Reporter Lee Jae-hoon = When the OST (original sound track) becomes the most pure in a physical sense, only the voice of the person can be heard. At that time, the music is not the music director’s, but only the song of the work.<\/p>\n
The Korean OTT Wave original drama ‘Park Ha-kyung’s Travel’ OST, which music director Lee Min-hwi worked on, is such a case. But who is Lee Min-hwi? <\/p>\n
Among music maniacs, he is known as an ‘omnidirectional musician’. Some of those who listen to music will think of the duo ‘Muki Muki Mansu’ who appeared like a comet in 2012 and released the album ‘2012’ that showed the aesthetic level of avant-garde. Another music maniac can think of ‘Borrowed Mouth’, a masterpiece representing 2016 and a non-linear, shining extreme. She started film music while participating in the music team for ‘Gojijeon’ (2011) led by music directors Jang Yeong-gyu and Dalparan. Film enthusiasts admire her for ‘A Midsummer’s Fantasia’ (2014), ‘Pasca’ (2015), and ‘Memory War’ (2020). ) and so on. <\/p>\n
The music of Lee Min-hwi, who shows a different face every time, cannot be grouped into one formula, but there is a blank space while everyone sings for themselves. So beautiful. Although the sounds, rhythms, and words take on a militant appearance that fights against fixed sounds and lyrics, Lee Min-hwi’s music always has a generous attitude of accepting the voices of others. He sings, “Your mouth and ears were not yours” (‘Borrowed Mouth’), but he himself becomes a mouth and an ear for those who are marginalized. <\/p>\n
That’s why Lee Min-hwi had to make the music for ‘Park Ha-kyung’s Travels’. This drama, which has formed a calm mania, coexists with viewers. High school Korean language teacher ‘Park Ha-kyung’ draws a trip to Korea every Saturday, and she puts all the predicates that describe the movements of the viewers’ hearts. A miraculous moment in life is created through Park Ha-kyung, who has a firm conviction but delicately discovers the universality of emotions flowing from other people’s watersheds. <\/p>\n
It is unique to give a more special sense of rhythm here, but Lee Na-young’s acting rhythm that makes our scene without making the other person lonely, the warm contemplation of Son-mi who wrote the script, the plainness of director Lee Jong-pil, and the alone aesthetic guarantees the scene every time. It is Lee Min-hwi’s music that embraces gracefully or wittily. The OST, which contains 42 tracks, mostly self-produced, is an inevitability of the drama, and the music itself is a feast. The following is a Q&A with Lee Min-hwi in writing. <\/p>\n
-The OST was attached to each episode and scene. I wonder if you discussed the music with the director from the planning stage, or did the director add music after seeing the scene.
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\u201cBefore filming, I saw the scenario and talked to the director, but I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve talked in detail since then. It\u2019s hard to do that. It was easy. I tend to want to know exactly what role the music in the video is playing, and in that part, I hope the director wants this music to set a certain mood or represent the heart of a certain character, but that’s how it feels. He explained it so well that I was able to work on it without difficulty.\u201d
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-The genres are really diverse, but I wonder if there is a direction that has drawn the overall picture of the OST.
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“Director Lee Jong-pil and I seem to have wanted to avoid limiting ‘Park Ha-kyung’s Travels’ to a drama with a certain ‘healing’ as collateral. Of course, you can find a healing point in a picture that contains travel, but the main thing is, I thought it should be the story of the people in it and the people that the character Park Ha-kyung creates. is.”
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<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n(Seoul=Newsis) ‘Park Ha-kyung’s Travels’. 2023.07.03. (Photo = Provided by Wave) photo@newsis.com *Resale and DB prohibited<\/p>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
-The title song, ‘How did we do’ is a great song with various elements such as folk, jazz, and chamber pop. How did you make it and what did you pay the most attention to in the lyrics? What role does this song play in the OST of ‘Park Ha-kyung’s Travels’?
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“I didn’t know that this song would appear in the next episode, and when I was making it, I thought it would only be used in episode 3. As you can see from the episode, fateful encounters keep appearing, but in fact, if you think about it, every situation or person we meet in life Personally, I tend to think that all ties have an inevitable aspect, but I think that worldview has been hidden in. There are too many people in the world, and some inevitability is woven among countless probabilities, so I think it’s even more beautiful and surprising that we met. <\/p>\n
In the lyrics, \u201cMany yesterdays gathered \/ If I found you today \/ Someday today will gather \/ I hope you find me again \/ I hope we meet again by chance\u201d, about how Ha-gyeong met \u201cChang-jin\u201d (played by Koo Kyo-hwan), I was the director of Lee Jong-pil. and Park Ha-kyung\u2019s team to do this project, the fact that they carefully listened to the music after watching the drama, and sent me detailed questionnaires, and I thought about the questions and wrote down the answers. And I wanted to.”
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-In episode 2, ‘Hand Drip of Dreams and Depression’, it was impressive to see Lee Na-young sing Baek Hyun-jin’s ‘Light’. Is there a reason you chose this song?
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“This song was decided by the director, but I also like it, so I don’t think I asked why I chose this song.”
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-You were in charge of most of the instruments for all the tracks yourself, but I wonder why you left only the bass part to ‘stuffed human’ Ji Yoon-hae.
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\u201cJi Yoon-hae didn\u2019t actually come in as a bass session, but he is the only member of the music team I formed this time. I don’t think of him as a player, so I prefer to leave difficult performances to sessions that are really good at playing. Ji Yoon-hae is a really good bass player, and there is a team member like this in the team, but there is no reason for me to play bass, so I can play all the bass. I trusted him to play.”
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-The composition of the instruments is generally simple, except for episode 7 ‘Island of Bread’, but the texture is rich. What do you pay the most attention to when it comes to instrument placement?
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\u201cActually, I didn\u2019t start with a fixed composition, and I thought it was a part that automatically followed when I saw a story or a picture, so I didn\u2019t worry so much. I orchestrated the score by hand and did the MIDI work, so that it sounded as close to real as possible.\u201d
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-All the episodes were good, but the one I personally liked the most was ‘Island of Bread’. I like bread and I liked the story with a twist, but I really liked the various motifs that the music gave. In particular, I thought the idea of \u200b\u200bthe Mozart Magic Flute’s part using the Papagena and Papageno duet as a theme song for bread was brilliant. How did this part of the process work?<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the Island of Bread trailer, bread keeps appearing, but the director struggled with not knowing how to make music. It reminded me of the duet of ‘. I wasn’t worried about how to find a soprano and baritone who could sing this song right away and record it because time was running out. I think it was a perfect match because Kim Seung-ri soprano and Jo Seok-seok baritone were so good. I think you did well)”
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-What was the most difficult and relatively easy piece of music for each episode?
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“Anyway, I think ‘Island of Bread’ was the most difficult. Maybe I’m not a person who enjoys bread much, but I wasn’t moved when I saw delicious bread, so I showed it to family members who like bread and asked for advice. But actually, the overall music work for ‘Park Ha-kyung’s Travels’ was easy. There were quite a few modifications, but episode 2 (the episode in which actress Han Ye-ri played an artist with an obscure talent) has a lot of parts that people who do art can’t help but sympathize with. I remember working hard. The easy and difficult parts are mentally and physically different, so it would be difficult to say exactly what was easy and what was difficult.”
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-You have worked in various genres such as movies and performances. What is the charm of the OTT series?
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“I think it was even more so because this work is a travelogue, but it definitely feels like I’m going on a long journey together. After ‘Park Ha-kyung’s Travels’ was finished, I felt strange because it felt like the trip was over with my friends (Park Ha-kyung’s team). I’ve been in touch with the producers and PDs for a long time, and since I’m a post-production worker, I rarely go to the set, but this time I went to the Busan filming set and appeared on the set, so I felt like I went through the whole journey together compared to other works.”
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-I thought that the atmosphere of ‘Park Ha-kyung’s Travels’ suited the director very well. How did you view the series, and has this work changed you as a musician and as a person?
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\u201cAs I followed the contents carefully, I couldn\u2019t help but think of the relationships I had met and the things I had been through. This time, Ji Yoon-hae, a member of the team, was also with me, and perhaps because I went to the filming site, I started to think a lot about ‘working together.’ I saw people (photography team, lighting team, grip team, generator driver and many others). It was an opportunity to reflect.\u201d
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– Do you have any personal criteria for taking on music work?
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\u201cThere is a side to me that I am a little strict about accepting a work. I don\u2019t really care if the work is commercial or non-commercial, but I can see if it suits me and through the work (whether it is musical or non-musical) I can grow more than before. I think I’m the type of person who cares a lot about whether or not it will be there, so I prefer work that has a new side that I haven’t tried before, and I also try to gauge how open the work will be by looking at the client’s previous works. I watched, and at the end of the film, Thomas Mann was quoted saying, \u2018I am tired of portraying humans without participating in them.\u2019 There was a part that was in line with my view of work, so it remained in my memory for a long time. , It seems to be welcomed if it is in close contact with the human figure, whether it is the inner side.\u201d
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-And I know that there are a lot of works done in a co-creation way. What kind of synergy does this form of work have?
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“The first time I learned a lot in co-creation was when I was doing ‘Mukimuki Mansu’. It was only among my colleagues who studied classical music, but then my friend who majored in art made me write a song for the first time and developed the music, so it’s really unique. It can come out, I found out. I have a bit of a ‘control freak’ side (a person who has to move in every situation based on the standards he has created), so when I work on my own, I make corrections after corrections, but together There is a side to the work that I do by letting go of a lot of parts and watching what will happen. That way, when I was doing it alone, a lot of unexpected things came out. Even during the ‘Nodeul Singing Factory’ time at Nodeul Night School, when I dictated the lyrics and tunes that workers hummed, These must have been things I would never have thought of, I think a lot. (If anyone is interested in Nodeul Song Factory, please visit the homepage (nonogong.kr)
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-The dance film ‘December 70th’ and the dance work ‘Hui Yiing’ are also unusual. How did you do these things? I think it also inspired the director’s music work.<\/p>\n
\u201cI had never worked on dance music before, but while working on these two works, I was surprised that the movements made by the human body can act as a direct driving force for music work. I just had to follow the movements, so the sound came out much more freely. “
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-‘Borrowed Mouth’ is also a classic. There are many people who are looking forward to the work of singer-songwriter Lee Min-hwi. Maybe it’s time for a solo album?
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<\/td>\n<\/tr>\nMusic director Lee Min-hwi. 2023.07.03. (Photo = Provided by the director) photo@newsis.com *Resale and DB prohibited<\/p>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
“Thank you for your words. Actually, I’m having the most trouble with this work these days. I think you’ll be able to hear something within this year. I think there will be quite a few performances related to it in the second half of this year.”
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– You studied abroad in New York and Paris. Maybe that’s why I feel that the elegant atmosphere of Europe and the sophisticated style of North America are naturally buried in the music. How has studying and living in a variety of environments influenced your music production?
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“I don’t know if it’s elegant and sophisticated. Living as an Asian woman for 5 years in a different culture that uses a language different from my mother tongue, how human life and art should meet, what a desirable musician’s life should look like, and the life of a minority I came to think about what it is like (especially in Korea), and those things seem to be the biggest learnings.”
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– The formative project jazz band ‘Samseung’ and the doom metal band ‘gawthrop’ are also unusual team activities. How did you start working on this and how do you enjoy it?
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“Both of them started while having drinks with friends. ‘Three Seung’ started when I had a conversation with Choi Kyung-joo, a printmaker, and Seo Kyung-soo, a drummer, about how to solve the formative characteristics of printmaking with two percussion instruments, a drum and a piano. In the case of ‘Gawthrop’, a friend named Jang Seong-gun, who used to be in a band called Bamseom Pirates, asked me if I would like to play bass, so I started suddenly. I didn’t know much about jazz and doom metal, but I learned a lot and had fun working with friends who were familiar with each genre are doing.”
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-I don’t think your future work will be ordinary. What kind of projects are you preparing for?
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“The remaining works for this year include the completion of my second solo album, performances related to it, several documentaries, and music participation in theater, art, and dance works. Please enjoy listening to it.”<\/p>\n
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