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26-501: SM Station's purpose was to showcase SM Entertainment's artists and producers, while also including collaborations with artists outside of the label. The project began on February 3, 2016, with the release of its first single " Rain " by Taeyeon . The song proved successful, topping the South Korean Gaon Digital Chart and winning first place on the weekly music show Inkigayo . Subsequent singles that entered top 10 on

52-449: A gayageum from around the first century BCE. The gayageum is employed in different types of music, leading to variations of the instrument, including the following: The six or more schools of the gayageum sanjo include Seong Geum Yeon, Kim Juk Pa, Kim Yoon Deok, Kang Tae Hong, Kim Byeong Ho, and Choi Ok Sam schools. Contemporary music composers have been creating modern music for the gayageum . Hwang Byung Ki composed "Forest" as

78-488: A Digital Bonsang at the 31st Golden Disk Awards and "Sweet Dream" won a Best Rock Song at the MelOn Music Awards . The first season ended on February 3, 2017, with the 52nd single "Curtain" by Suho . Station's second season was to feature collaborations with foreign musicians, besides past projects. It began on March 31, 2017, with the first single "Would U" by Red Velvet . On April 6, 2017, SM Entertainment released

104-465: A chair, but they do not use a stand of the tail end. Instead, the gayageum has detachable legs that are fixed into the end to raise the tail high enough. The gayageum is played with both right and left hands. The right hand plucks and flicks the strings close to the bridge of the gayageum, whilst the left hand pushes the strings on the left side of the bridges to raise the pitch and adds vibrato and other ornamentation. These notations are placed above

130-405: A compilation album titled SM Station Season 1 which contains the first season's 52 singles and five bonus tracks. The second season concluded on April 6, 2018, with "New Heroes" by NCT member Ten . In August 2018, SM Entertainment announced a special season titled Station X 0 (Station Young), in collaboration with SK Telecom 's "0 (Young)" mobile brand. According to the label, Station X 0

156-483: A louder sound, which is preferred for accompanying dance . To play modern music, gayageum with a greater number of strings have been developed, increasing the instrument's range. Gayageum are available with 13, 17, 18, 21, 22, or 25 strings , though instruments with more strings are available custom-made. The 21-string gayageum is normally found in North Korea . The gayageum is traditionally played when sitting on

182-575: A microphone, and colored scenes of her in a flooding room. "Rain" was the most viewed music video by a South Korean act on YouTube in February 2016. "Rain" debuted atop South Korea's Gaon Digital Chart . It won the first place on SBS 's music program Inkigayo on February 14, 2016. The song received a Digital Bonsang at the 31st Golden Disk Awards . Credits are adapted from Naver . Gayageum The gayageum or kayagum ( Korean :  가야금 ; Hanja :  伽倻琴 )

208-514: A shorter length to let musicians play the faster passages required for sanjo . The sanjo gayageum is now the most widespread form of gayageum . All traditional gayageum use silk strings, though since the late 20th century, some musicians use nylon . Modern versions of the gayageum with more strings often use nylon-wrapped steel strings , similar to those used for the Chinese guzheng . Brass strings have also been introduced to produce

234-445: A total of six singles released under NCT Lab , including " Forever Only " by Jaehyun, "Birthday" by Ten, "Rain Day" by Kun, Taeil, and Yangyang, and "Golden Hour" by Mark. In August 2023, it was announced that NCT Lab would continue as a separate project from SM Station. It began with a solo single by Jaehyun titled " Horizon ", released on August 8. Rain (Taeyeon song) " Rain "

260-412: A trailer featuring Jaehyun , announcing the fourth season titled Station X . The season began on November 20 with a collaboration single with UNICEF "This is Your Day (for every child, UNICEF)", by BoA, Siwon , J-Min , Sunny , Taemin , Suho, Wendy, and Doyoung . On July 27, 2020, SM Entertainment announced a special project titled Our Beloved BoA featuring covers of BoA's top hits to commemorate

286-464: Is a traditional Korean musical instrument . It is a plucked zither with 12 strings , though some more recent variants have 18, 21 or 25 strings. It is probably the best known traditional Korean musical instrument . It is based on the Chinese guzheng and is similar to the Japanese koto , Mongolian yatga , Vietnamese đàn tranh , Sundanese kacapi and Kazakh jetigen . According to

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312-700: Is a cultural project for the young generation. The season ended on October 19, 2018, with "Written in the Stars" by Wendy and John Legend . A project girl group, Station Young, consisting of Red Velvet's Seulgi , (G)I-dle 's Soyeon , GFriend 's SinB and soloist Chungha was formed for the single "Wow Thing" for the album. A third season was announced in November 2018. The first single would be released by Lucas and Jonah Nilsson of Swedish band Dirty Loops . The season ended with "Long Flight" by Taeyong , released on July 18, 2019. On November 15, 2019, SM Entertainment uploaded

338-463: Is a song by South Korean singer Kim Tae-yeon , a member of the South Korean girl group Girls' Generation . It was released digitally by SM Entertainment on February 3, 2016. In January 2016, S.M. Entertainment announced that they were to launch a digital music platform called SM Station , in which SM artists would release a new song every week. "Rain" and its B-side track "Secret" served as

364-399: Is made of paulownia, but the sides and back are of a harder wood such as chestnut or walnut . On the soundboard, anjok (movable bridges ) support the strings . These bridges move to adjust the tuning and intonation . The strings enter the top of the body from tolgwae (string pegs) beneath. At the other end, the strings wind around loops at the end of thick cords, which pass over

390-575: The Samguksagi (1146), a history of the Three Kingdoms of Korea , the gayageum was developed around the sixth century in the Gaya confederacy by King Gasil (also known as Haji of Daegaya) after he observed an old Chinese instrument Guzheng. He ordered a musician named Wu Ruk to compose music that could be played on the instrument. The original name was gayago (or gayatgo ) and later gayageum . The gayageum

416-518: The 20th anniversary of her debut. It began on July 31, with the first single "Garden in the Air" by Baekhyun, from BoA's fifth Korean studio album Girls on Top . On January 28, 2022, SM Entertainment announced a special project titled NCT Lab , which will feature solo or unit songs made by NCT members. It began on February 4, with the release of Mark 's first single, " Child ". The second single, "Conextion (Age of Light)", sung by Doyoung, Mark and Haechan ,

442-571: The Gaon Digital Chart include " Spring Love " by Wendy and Eric Nam , "The Day" by Baekhyun and K.Will , "No Matter What" by BoA and Beenzino , " Dancing King " by Exo and Yoo Jae-suk , "Always in My Heart" by Joy and Seulong , and " Sweet Dream " by Kim Hee-chul and Min Kyung-hoon . "Rain" and "Spring Love" received various nominations at year-end music awards, among which "Rain" won

468-446: The floor with crossed legs, the head of the instrument resting on the right knee and the tail resting on the floor. When played whilst seated on a chair or stool, the tail end is usually placed on a special fold-out stand, similar to a camp-stool, or another chair/stool. For modern gayageum , they may be placed on a special stand with the player seated on a chair behind the instrument. The people of North Korea usually play whilst seated on

494-679: The instrument was first made by King Gasil in the Kaya Kingdom around the sixth century, and was further developed by a musician named Ureuk ( 우륵 ; 于勒 ) in the time of King of Jinhung in the Silla dynasty. According to some evidence, however, it dates to a much earlier time than the Silla dynasty. Recent archaeological excavations in the Kwangsan areas in Jeolla-namdo Province revealed fragments of

520-399: The nut then looped through holes at the bottom of the instrument and secured, and then the cords are all tied in a decorative coil. The left hand presses the strings to raise the pitch, and finger movements perform various movements such as shaking, bending, and vibrating the strings. The right hand plucks or strums the strings. The gayageum's tone is soft, delicate, and subtle. Legend says

546-432: The opening single of the project and were released on February 3, 2016. "Rain" is described as a midtempo song with jazz and R&B sounds. Lyrically, it uses rain as a metaphor to describe memories of past love. The music video for "Rain" was filmed indoors, having the concept of Taeyeon in a "room of memories", missing a past lover. It alternate between black and white scenes of Taeyeon singing alone in front of

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572-422: The staff in contemporary sheet music. If not explicitly stated, the strings are typically struck using the index finger. The gayageum can be tuned to a variety of pitches depending on use, though no standard exists as to what exact pitches they should be tuned. They include: When noted in staff notation, however, the pitch series is usually transposed as the following, regardless of the actual pitches tuned on

598-448: The strings and plays slower-tempo music such as Yeongsan hoesang and Mit-doduri . The sanjo gayageum is believed to have evolved in the 19th century with the emergence of sanjo music, which in Korean literally means "scattered melodies", a musical form that involves fast tempos and some improvisation . The sanjo gayageum version of the instrument has closer string spacing and

624-463: The strings: This is to avoid switching between the bass and treble clefs to make reading the music easier. Traditionally, three modes are used: The beobgeum gayageum is 160 cm long by 30 cm wide by 10 cm deep. Its body is made of a single piece of paulownia wood. The resonator chamber is hollowed out of the piece of paulownia. The sanjo gayageum is about 142 cm long by 23 cm wide by 10 cm deep. The soundboard

650-532: Was released on March 20 as a collaboration with the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Korea Creative Content Agency, who used it as the theme song for their "Gwanghwa Era" project. It features modern instruments and traditional Korean instruments including the gayageum , janggu , taepyeongso and gong . The performance video features Shotaro as a dancer. As of July 2023, there have been

676-462: Was then further improved by Wu Ruk during the reign of Jinheung in the Shilla dynasty. The ancient gayageum of King Gasil was called by several names, including beopgeum (law-zither, 법금), pungnyu (elegance, 풍류), or jeong-ak (right music, 정악) gayageum . It is normally associated with accompaniment for court music, chamber music, and lyric songs. This type of gayageum has a wider spacing between

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