Projects from Jung D Kim
name
Jung D Kim (popdays)
country
united states
university
Otis College of Art and Design
department
Graphic Design
university address
9045 Lincoln blvd.
90045 Los Angeles, CA
university country
united states
url
id
0009002
title
K-electrassical: Meaningful Pastiche
professor(s)
Yasmin Khan
rank
-
tags
typography type design editorial design book
year of making
2009
uploaded
2010-02-14 02:33:30
Pastiche can be readily found in our daily lives because it is prominent in popular culture, especially music. Many pop songs borrow from or sample other songs and also exerted influences on other music. This way of constructing music can be regarded as a function of postmodernity because one of the most obvious features of postmodernism is to break boundaries between culture and time period without the author. As a critical point of view, pastiche could be described as “blank parody” or “a dead language” without any content. (Jameson, 1991) Nevertheless, pastiche can be a very useful tool to provoke nostalgia or allow designers to spontaneously borrow the underlying meaning through the re-used elements and their relationship to context.
Here, in this ‘hodge-podged’ book, I put various distinct styles together taken from three kinds of music: Classical, Electronic, and Korean Cultural Music.
The goal was to create a totally new kind of music as an experiment in generating meaningful pastiche.
