The Voice of the Farmers

The voice of the farmers Museum

English / 日本語 /  한국어

Design plan
About the project

[The voice of the farmers Museum]
Geochang-eup, Geochang-gun, Gyeongsangnam-do, Republic of Korea
Diorama design and production in museum
commissioned by the Geochang County Office / 2011
each size: h 300X  w 900X l 380mm
wood and mixed media

The voice of the farmers Museum was made to preserve traditional Korean culture about agriculture. Below work shows a process of a diorama, with using motors and sound devices. Each step needed several tests not only to express characters’ natural poses and movements but also show scenery of agricultural society in the past with nature.

Voice of the farmers Museum

Moving Parts

The working principle of the model involves converting rotational motion into linear motion and redirecting it accordingly. Essential components include a motor, timer, button, and motor intensity regulator. I initially tested this principle using a styrofoam board and developed the necessary devices as a result. These components were then applied to a real object, adjusting motor rotation intensity and timer settings. Finally, I integrated them into the exhibition hall, configuring sound and operational timings.

Diorama Layout

In the production of the terrain of the work, I tried to simulate the characters of the styrofoam board. I made the ground by grasping the position and movement of the characters. And I tested the materials to express water.

Modeling the Figures

Props of all backgrounds and characters of the characters were made to fit the size. We shaped the costume figures to make silicone molds and cast non-foam rigid urethane. To give them an overall feeling of liveliness as well as details of when the audience looked closer, the eyes of the characters were all made of glass eyes, and the head was made of wigs.

Diorama

The sound of hoeing

It shows that farmers make a sound as they prepare for the firewood in the mountains or fields.

Mosdugdajigi sound

Describing doing dike work to supply water to rice fields. It is the sound that a lot of people call up when they lift up a dam, and a lot of people sing together.

Barley threshing sound

It demonstrates threshing barley. Because the work is hard, the music is short, and the primary meaning of the song is an expectation of work and hopeful life.

The sound while planting seeds

This piece depicts farmers singing while planting seedlings in the rice paddies.

Rice-plowing sound and Rice-planting sound

(Monaegi Sound and Nonmaegi Sound)

It is a diorama of two sounds. The first is farmers planting rice with making a sound. The second is a scene of singing while weeding a rice paddy.

The sound of threshing barley

It shows farmers singing the sounds they call as they harvest rice.