{"id":83724,"date":"2026-05-29T16:12:56","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T02:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thomas-osborne.com\/music\/?post_type=portfolio&#038;p=83724"},"modified":"2026-05-29T16:12:56","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T02:12:56","slug":"yeobaek-%ec%97%ac%eb%b0%b1","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/thomas-osborne.com\/music\/works\/yeobaek-%ec%97%ac%eb%b0%b1\/","title":{"rendered":"Yeobaek (\uc5ec\ubc31)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/1&#8243;][vc_single_image media=&#8221;83725&#8243; media_lightbox=&#8221;yes&#8221; media_width_percent=&#8221;100&#8243; uncode_shortcode_id=&#8221;586493&#8243;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/1&#8243;][vc_column_text uncode_shortcode_id=&#8221;137060&#8243;]The Korean artistic principle of <em>yeobaek<\/em> is most frequently observed in visual art. It involves the intentional integration of the surface\u2019s blank texture into the artwork itself. Imagine a scroll painting of a mountain scene, in which the fabric of the scroll represents the sky and clouds. Leaving these areas unpainted blurs the line between the artistic medium and the finished piece.<\/p>\n<p>In composing this piece, I\u2019ve aimed to translate the principle of <em>yeobaek<\/em> into a musical context. Just as a painter uses a canvas, a musician \u201cpaints\u201d sound onto a canvas of silence. And so <em>Yeobaek<\/em> begins by highlighting this \u201cnegative space.\u201d At the start, powerful, resonant musical gestures dissolve into silence. As the piece develops, these initial silences are progressively filled with more sound, making the texture increasingly active. By the climactic moment of the piece, the profound silence prominent at the start remains only as a faint suggestion.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>sanjo gayageum and sanjo ajaeng<br \/>\n(2026) 7&#8242;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":83725,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"portfolio_category":[108],"class_list":["post-83724","portfolio","type-portfolio","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","portfolio_category-korean"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas-osborne.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/83724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas-osborne.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas-osborne.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/portfolio"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas-osborne.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas-osborne.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thomas-osborne.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/83724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83729,"href":"https:\/\/thomas-osborne.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/83724\/revisions\/83729"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas-osborne.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas-osborne.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"portfolio_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas-osborne.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_category?post=83724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}