I’ll be writing the first draft of this manifesto over the course of several blog posts and collecting them into a separate page that I will update as I learn more, get smarter (or dumber!) or otherwise change my opinion. Background Why Do I Need a Manifesto? I don’t know if you need a manifesto […]
Introduction Hi, I’m Sungwon. I grew up in the United States, have been in South Korea the past 9 years and am now living in France for the time being. In this post, I’ll be explaining the most common synth modules: the Oscillator, Filter, Amplifier, Envelope and LFO using the Linux synth phasex. Core Synthesizer […]
10-15 years ago I was telling a fellow metal- and prog-loving friend how I was then listening to my full collection of music as a random mp3 playlist. He bemoaned the impending demise of the album format: I love albums, it’s sad to think in a few years they’ll be gone I sympathized with the […]
This is an assignment for the Coursera course Introduction to Music Production Introduction Hi, I’m Sungwon. I grew up in the United States, have been in South Korea the past 9 years and am now living in France for the time being. In this post, I’ll be describing dynamic processors and their common parameters: threshold, ratio, attack and […]
My website is now hosted complete off the grid using Solar Power by AISO! While most of the major web hosts (Dreamhost, Hostgator, etc.) are generally carbon-neutral, which just means that they buy certificates from organizations that work to offset their carbon footprint, very few web hosts are completely powered by renewable energy like wind […]
This is an assignment for the Coursera course Introduction to Music Production Introduction Hi, I’m Sungwon. I grew up in the United States, have been in South Korea the past 9 years and am now living in France for the time being. In this post, I’ll be explaining the signal flow through the channel strip or mixer […]
Join in me on Google hangouts Sunday, November 3rd, 2013 to see Gicheon bowing. I’ll be doing 1000 Danbaegong bows from 9am to about 9pm Paris time. More info on my Gicheon website.
This is an assignment for the Coursera course Introduction to Music Production Introduction Hi, I’m Sungwon. I grew up in the United States, have been in South Korea the past 9 years and am now living in France for the time being. In this post, I’ll be explaining how to prepare Jack and Ardour 3 for recording […]
This is an assignment for the Coursera course Introduction to Music Production [Meta] Introduction Hi, I’m Sungwon. I grew up in the United States, have been in South Korea the past 9 years and am now living in France for the time being. In this post, I’ll be explaining how to record an electric guitar […]
(Communication) technologies are primarily designed for communicating with others. Yet, they are also powerful tools in understanding oneself when the communication is done with oneself. Writing for yourself, keeping a diary, blogging, allows for self-reflection. Because the technology of writing allows for what was subject (one’s thoughts) to become object (a work of words on […]