BARAM SORI [Wind Song] is a piece for Korean daegum and CD. An old story tells us about a great storm, which came over a bamboo forest and broke off all the tips. Thus, the open bamboo
shoots turned into giant flutes and started to make howling noises until one of the court musicians, who had come with the emperor to visit the devastated bamboo forest, started to play his own
bamboo flute. All of a sudden the winds settled down and the emperor, who experienced the great calmness, called his flutist a “master of the winds”.
The music on the CD, which is to be played while performing BARAM SORI, consists of “windy” noises that have been produced with a number of very large plastic tubes set into resonance by means of little organ motors. Edmund Kieselbach, the German artist who invented and built this very special sound installation, set all the tubes to the same root note, so they could “communicate”
among each other and make a large amount of harmonic uppertones audible. The daegum player should adjust the intonation of their instrument as close as possible to the Eb root note as heard on the CD. For greater flexibility and comfort, four different versions, varying in pitch, have been made available. Furthermore, a complete version with daegum plus the accompanying noises is included on the CD.