모습

  모습 by Worker Ant



Producing like cooking: a sound surgery entrée served with lyrical salad

모습 is a dub combining two different original tracks into a synthesis of sound. The original tracks are Korean pop ballads from the 1990's with sad & romantic lyrics. I decided to intertwine vocal samples from both songs between lyrical bars in my dub version. The vocal samples are weaved into a new basket of lyrical content, messages & conversations.

This dub puts a malicious twist on current digital remix culture: re-appropriation & reform of existing content to create new content representing my own interests & desires. It's the pleasure cleaning up old bookshelves & replacing books with recreations of their own contents. It's a new species of Frankenstein, created with limbs of humans & machine organs.

Synthesis dub is not a subgenre or recreation of something original, but a mutation of contents, a becoming-block-of-expression. This mixed salad of a dub track can't represent my expression or a clear singular message, but it represents multiple representations of messages coming from multiple sources. The outcome of synthesis dub makes these sources abstract and oblique by becoming new sound, in a constant transition.

Unlike my first synthesis dub ("Communicate Dub"), 모습 doesn't have a common lyrical theme that brings the original tracks together.