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In my developing project “The red days” I have combined my silk painting with sound installation. This series mention on a problem of contemporary society in Vietnam nowadays . The speaker system become so popular on every electric column in the city of Hanoi. They start to play the propaganda content from early morning at 6 am, and play the whole day some time take a rest in “red music” song ( revolution song) . The other side more than 40 year ago, in South of Vietnam we had a wave of bolero music was called “yellow music”. The reason is quite simple, the people live in the North in the communist side consider that kind of music have no “revolution” characteristic, it made the listener feel the sorrow, the sadness, and the content was only about the personal romantic love … The “yellow music” become forbidden after the fall of Saigon in 1975. If the anyone was caught listening to “yellow” music, he/she would be in jail. The “yellow” music was considered the symbol of the South Vietnam Government. But in fact, more and more people in the North fell in love with the romantic rhythm and beautiful voice of the singer in “yellow” music . And more and more people tried to copy in cassette tapes or secretly listen to them on radio. That means the “ Yellow music” never die. After 1990 when subsidized economic policy ended in Vietnam following the change to free market economy, the “yellow” music was growing and more appreciated openly . A lot of Karaoke places began to open, and people sang “yellow music” songs there. Recently the Government is quite nervous about the return of “yellow” music and they tried to forbid them again. That the back ground I would like to integrated the “yellow” music song in the “red” loud speaker painting in “the red days” series. This time I would like to experiment with glass art technic under the help of professor Park Sung-won to make a glass speaker as an interactive object . Nguyen The Son

“Colour of the sound” in K-art Gallery- Seoul 2017
“Colour of the sound” in K-art Gallery- Seoul 2017
“Colour of the sound” in K-art Gallery- Seoul 2017
“Colour of the sound” in K-art Gallery- Seoul 2017
“Colour of the sound” in K-art Gallery- Seoul 2017
“Colour of the sound” in K-art Gallery- Seoul 2017
“Colour of the sound” in K-art Gallery- Seoul 2017
“Colour of the sound” in K-art Gallery- Seoul 2017
“Colour of the sound” in K-art Gallery- Seoul 2017
“Colour of the sound” in K-art Gallery- Seoul 2017

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