Jocelyn Clark was born in Juneau, but moved to Asia after high school where she began to study folk music.
Jocelyn Clark was born in Juneau, but now lives in Korea, and plays the gayageum, a Korean folk instrument.
Now, she’s dedicated her life to playing the gayageum, a string instrument that can be traced back 1,500 years.Listen:This transcript has been lightly edited for clarity. I wanted to work really hard, and you know, show that I was a serious student and all that. And I finally got my first gayageum, when I got a teacher and I was going to work hard. And after playing for about no more than 10 minutes, my fingers were already bleeding. It turned out that you couldn’t practice very hard, even if you wanted to.
The piece I’m working on — and I have been working on for 30 years — is over an hour long. In the beginning I thought of it as a Westerner, as a piece. You know, I learned the notes so I’m done. But you know, it’s not about the notes. It’s about all the subtleties and all the different tone colors and all those sort of nuances within each of those nodes each. Each note in a way is its own world that you have to explore.
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