MEDIATHEK

1.The purpose of planning: Modern people’s daily routines may make them gradually forget their emotion and dreams. Then, their routines are laid down the border line alive but simultaneously with not alive, and dead but simultaneously with not dead. At ‘Black Devil’, music theatre, this situation is expressed in metapor, the midheaven which is the border line of this world and the other world, life and death, meeting and parting.From the perspective of a death messenger who does not know what to do getting lost in the midheaven, to release human inherent desire for sex under the expression of farewell in ‘Gongmudoaga’(the ancient poetry of Korea,) can help the modern to remember their forgotten emotion, and moreover this emotion will be healed as ‘a dream’. 

// 2.Libretto: ‘Black Devil’, music theatre, adopts the allegory of Gongmudoaga and the creative motivation is from the question of ‘Why would the fisherman cross the river?’.The author creates ‘Black devil’ who does not appear in Gongmudoaga to take the fisherman. It looks like the music, the beginning and end of which can be unknown, is played constantly. In that music does begin the dreamy narrative of the black devil to take the fisherman, the departed fisherman to leave the drunken black devil, and the wife between. 

// 3.The concept of the author: The story is as follows; about the boundary of a water, a drink, and a dream, about this world, the other world, and the midheaven, about those who cross to the afterlife(fisherman, wife), about one who comes over this life, about the fisherman and the wife and black devil who never meet, about their own dream, about their ideas of sex. 

// 4.The idea of the composition: Seemingly the river flows with one current, but it flows at s different rate as the depth of the river. Likewise, this music theatre also the one music is composed of the constantly varying linear stream.At ‘Black devil’, music theatre,the typical ways to express the human voice are not only the song(baritone),the pansori but also the sound coming from the smallest unit of the language. These are treated semantically and phonetically.Through the musical trend,the character’s emotion is conveyed and is expressed into the varying tone. The sound and emotion from the ‘body’ by pulse, breath, echo, and feeling produces the gesture(motion), and is combined and collided with the sound.