# 도시의 7음계는 무엇인가?

Canonical URL: https://jeanyoon.ch/oi/texts/banpo-xism-artist-notes-2025-06-30
Type: essay / research note
Author: Jeanyoon Choi (최정윤)
Date: 2025-06-30

## Full text

In the end, to make an instrument with the city as material, I have to understand the city completely, and from that identify its most basic, elemental features.

What is the city's seven-note scale? What is the city's ACGT? Through the combination of which elements can I create a natural, intuitive and meaningful combinatorial explosion? I need to take an urban, architectural, humanistic approach to this first, and then connect it naturally to interaction, design and 3D development. Studying theories of elements would also help.

Christian Marclay: sampling aesthetics! Playing Pompidou...

The 3D viewpoint

Korean cities, Seoul, Yeongdeungpo: wide roads, wide intersections, low density of surrounding buildings. A 3D point of view from the ground might look too strange? Would it be better to see the 3D from somewhat up in the sky? Manhattan, London and the like: narrow streets and narrow intersections (a Times Square-like visual is possible). Seoul's roads are two to four times wider than London's, and its intersections four to sixteen times larger.

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Jeanyoon Choi (최정윤) is a Korean computational artist and researcher (b. 1999), PhD candidate at KAIST XD Lab, making multi-device web artworks. Profile: https://jeanyoon.ch/oi. Index: https://jeanyoon.ch/llms.txt.