Chan Park, DEALL professor in Korean, recently delivered a Webinar lecture on Korean musical performance tradition at Indiana University. We are very thankful for the following report directly from her!

 

"On March 6, I was invited by the Indiana University's East Asian Studies program to present a Webinar lecture on Korean musical performance tradition titled, “Musicology of Ka-Mu-Ak: Korean Song, Dance, and Instrumentation." 

 

This was the first time I ever delivered a lecture/performance on webinar, and the experience was inspiring that I wanted to share it with you. Technology has entered in our teaching field, and this experience taught me that it is not the cutting edge techno alone but how such advanced technology is incorporated into the traditional sense of space and value that matters, especially in the case of performance-related courses.  

 

The room used for the Webinar at Indiana was cozy and bright, located in a quaint cottage on campus. The organizers had invited about 30 people to attend my talk/performance. I was relieved not to be ushered into a windowless studio to speak and sing to an invisible audience. Before the actual session, they provided us with some food, refreshment, and time to converse in the room adjacent to it. In the beginning, the person assigned to introduce the speaker and receive questions from the teachers (about 60 teachers spread through a large area of the Midwest) introduced me. At the end of my presentation, he returned into the camera view next to me, to deliver the questions gathered from teachers. With a few staff members expertly controlling the machines as well as the responsive and live audience, it was a fun experience."