The Healing Life of a Music Genius - Chapter 35



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35 butterfly effect

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The ⌜Let’s go composition contest⌟ hosted by ⌜Wolgwang⌟ was different from contests held by other labels.

First, complete fairness through anonymous support. Even the title of the email had to contain only the song title.

However, if you ask whether artists from the director’s line and the chairman’s line are not selected, that is not the case.

If you want to have a flexible social life, don’t you need something? So, sometimes unexpected artists took up a spot in the contest. These are cases where music activities continue based on that foundation.

Second, ⌜Wolgwang⌟ provides step-by-step feedback to all the winners.

In fact, the word is sincerity, it is a struggle to seduce the artists in any way possible.

For your information, a label’s contest is very different from an agency’s audition.

In the case of an agency, the agency must nurture its trainees. They give you lessons, dress you up, help you lose weight, and shave your face.

Transforming an unfinished trainee into a completed trainee.

However, it takes a lot of time and effort to do so.

Thanks to this, there were not many companies in Korea that could conduct such auditions.

Of course, there were rogue agencies that defrauded trainee parents of 10 million or 20 million won in the name of lesson fees, but that was an exception.

Conversely, the label’s contest attempts to select already established artists.

If you are a composer, you must already know how to make songs, and if you are a singer, you must already know how to sing.

That is why the profit sharing ratio is much better for labels than for agencies.

In a way, the label only acts as a kind of distributor. We connect artists with other artists and only eat the leftover scraps.

This type of business has low risk and is quite stable.

⌜Moolgwang⌟ was growing in size just by signing contracts with numerous artists and distributing, selling, and marketing their creations.

In short, the label did not lose money no matter how many artists it recruited.

Unless there are strange people who come forward and offer to manage artists as if they have become entertainment companies.

“so···. Are you going to use this ⌜TEST⌟ as a test and give your best as a team?”

“Anyway, there’s a lot of budget left over for our team. “You can use it now.”

“You know that we don’t have any contact with this composer, right?”

“I got the feeling. Feeling. The interns definitely said they liked it. Right, kids?”

In response to Manager Park Hoon’s question, interns Kim, Lee, and Park shouted loudly, “Yes!”

“look.”

“If you ask interns, of course they will answer that way. Even if you ask the manager if he’s handsome, they’ll just say no, right?”

“no way. Guys, do you think I’m handsome?”

Park Hoon asked questions to the interns without hesitation, and again, without fail, the answer was “Yes!”

“see.”

“Tch. Everyone was a yes man. By the way, the assistant manager also heard of ⌜TEST⌟, right? Has there been music like this lately? It’s heaven for composers who copy common chords and only copy 2 or 3 bars at a time to avoid getting caught for plagiarism. In the meantime, a kid appeared who wrote such unique songs. Be honest. Have you ever seen anyone like this, including Major?”

The Tsarina held off answering for a moment.

And after a while, I let out a breath.

“I know. ⌜TEST⌟ is a song that shows the unique color of a rookie. “He didn’t care about trends and just showed his own musical world.”

“But we also paid some attention to popularity.”

“That’s amazing. A truly striking song. And who these days would compose each chorus differently?”

“It wasn’t something that was done often even in Beethoven’s time. Why was sonata form created? This is because the repetitive structure allows listeners to hear the good parts multiple times while composing the song day by day. But ⌜TEST⌟ didn’t do that? ‘I can make a good song even if I make all three choruses different!’ This is it. Isn’t the young guy full of spirit? “Don’t you just want to push me?”

“······.”

The assistant manager and manager finally felt like they knew why Manager Park Hoon was doing this.

Mozart devotee.

Manager Park Hoon was the one who was especially unreasonable when it came to young gifted children.

Manager Park Hoon had concluded that the composer who wrote this ⌜TEST⌟ was already young.

However, Charina’s thoughts were a little different.

“For your information, this composer is probably not that young. The number of tracks in ⌜TEST⌟ is completely different from regular songs. I’m sure he’s a used rookie who has been composing songs in the indie industry for a long time, right? “I guess I decided to apply for the contest without an agency.”

“What if that’s not the case? Be ambitious at a young age! What if you applied just to kill time? “What if this guy is Mozart?”

“There is no such thing in the world.”

“He’s probably 22 at most. I thought he was young. Besides, I don’t think the kid who makes this kind of music went to music school… I’m probably working part-time at a convenience store right now. But do you know what would happen if this guy was real?”

“well?”

Park Hoon answered meaningfully.

“Could be a high school student.”

“What kind of dream does that sound like? Where is the high school student who touches MIDI this much? “If there was a kid like that, he would have been taken out of the squad already.”

“Write it. no. Are you saying you have a clue? The freshness comes out in the song. “It doesn’t smell like a man who has gone through all the hardships of childbirth.”

“······.”

“If you don’t believe me, should I make a bet? “If this composer is over 23 years old, I will give our entire team free Starbucks passes for one month.”

“······ really?”

“instead! As I said, if this composer is under 22, I don’t care how much budget I spent. how is it?”

“There is a high probability that it is a one-month Starbucks voucher… “It’s not bad, right?”

The Tsarina’s deputy readily accepted the bet.

“But why did you conclude that the composer was young? “Did you get that feeling just by listening to the song?”

Park Hoon grinned at Tsarina’s words.

“There’s something I found in the music files last night.”

“Was there any Easter eggs in it?”

“Something like that. “Take a look.”

Manager Park Hoon handed the monitor back to Assistant Manager Cha so he could see the screen.

Tsarina slowly read the content on the screen.

MediaInfo for WAV files, which contains all information about the audio file.

This is the part that contains detailed information such as the standard used to create the sound source, format, size, bit rate, and codec.

Tsarina’s eyes stopped at TEXT, that is, the part where the music producer can freely enter information.

“Created with MD Score···. What’s this? MD Score?”

“I didn’t know what it was either, so I looked it up on the Internet. “Look at this.”

Park Hoon displayed the MD Score search results window on the monitor.

“MD Score. It is a MIDI composition app that has started to be used a lot by young people these days. “Do you know what this means?”

Only then did the Tsarina’s assistant manager open his eyes.

“This ⌜TEST⌟… “A song made with a smartphone app?”

“okay. It seems that if you use the free version of MD Score, app information is automatically saved in MediaInfo. So, you could say that this composer is a very, very, very young composer who has no money. how is it? “Don’t you think this guy might be in high school now?”

“······.”

In the music world, the younger you are, the more recognition you get.

In fact, the entire art world is like that.

If there were a college student whose drawings were amazing, I would say so.

But what if there is a kid who can easily draw Agrippa?

The story itself changes.

‘If the composer is really a high school student like the manager said…’

The so-called jackpot.

If we can bring such a gifted person to the ⌜Moonlight⌟ A&R team, it wouldn’t be a waste to spend the remaining budget. All you have to do is write a few pages of poetry.

“This guy has potential. So, let’s go all-in on ⌜TEST⌟. In order to do that…”

Manager Park Hoon gave instructions solemnly.

“Let’s win the contract before the contest ends. And proceed with the ⌜TEST⌟ task first. Let’s just say it’s an excellence award for now, and you can get the award later. In fact, what’s important to us is ‘barely’ awards, right?”

* * *

“Hmm.”

“why?”

I answered while looking at Lee Ha-eun, who was sucking milk through a straw in front of me.

“That milk color looks particularly dark. I thought it was my imagination. “You said people like Jetty don’t eat because they’re fat?”

Lee Ha-eun answered, hastily covering the translucent straw with her hand.

“Well, I just wanted to give you a taste! It’s a test. test.”

“hmm.”

“It’s real! All the kids in my class eat Jetty too! “Don’t you think the class president should know what this tastes like?”

“Aren’t you just eating it because it tastes good?”

“······.”

Lee Ha-eun fidgets for a while and eventually nods.

I smiled triumphantly.

“look! “I heard this is delicious.”

“······ I didn’t know this was my first time eating it. “It was delicious.”

Lee Ha-eun avoided my gaze for no reason and acted as if she was concentrating on the straw. I burst out laughing when I saw that.

Then I looked at the smartphone screen again.

‘There is still a long time left until the contest judging period ends…’

There was a text message sent from someone named So-and-so who belonged to ⌜Moonlight⌟.

A slightly uncomfortable text.

I felt even more uncomfortable because the text came from a personal number starting with 010.

“But what’s really going on? Why so serious?”

“I feel like my personal information was stolen somewhere. It feels like spam. “Otherwise, I don’t know why.”

“What kind of text message is this?”

“It’s a text message saying you won the contest, but has there ever been a case where it was sent to a personal number like this? “Isn’t it a bit strange?”

“······ Competition? “So that’s it for you?”

“I don’t know much yet…”

“Wow!!! oh my god!!! So Seojin, have you become a celebrity? What kind of chart is the song on? “Do they even appear on TV and evaluate singers?”

“Haeun. Did it suddenly go too far? “Nothing is certain yet…”

“Show me too! I want to see it too! oh my god!”

“······.”

I couldn’t resist Ha-eun’s anger and showed her a glimpse of the screen, which caused an even bigger fuss.

“and! It’s an excellence award! Did I tell you? ⌜TEST⌟ Did you say it was good? “Good!”

“But Ha-eun.”

“huh?”

“This could be spam?”

“······?”

I calmly explained my thoughts to Lee Ha-eun.

After hearing the explanation, Lee Ha-eun only repeated, “Oh, no way~”. I’ll give you a congratulatory gift later, so just look forward to it.

Lunch time was just about to end, so Lee Ha-eun and I went back to our respective classrooms.

after school.

Just in case, I found ⌜Wolgwang⌟’s head office number and called it.

In a word, it was double checking.

– yes? ⌜Let’s go contest⌟ results? There’s still a long time left until that announcement, right?

“Yes? “Isn’t it strange that I received an acceptance letter just now?”

– Ugh. I heard that there are a lot of impersonations these days, such as voice phishing or something. I didn’t know there was even an impersonation of our company.

“I was just calling you just in case. “I was very fortunate.”

– Well done. Please be careful in the future. And even if a text message is sent, it will be sent to our company number, so I think you just need to check that.

“yes. All right. thank you.”

– I hope there are good results. have a good day.

Tou, too, too.

Ugh. I almost got into big trouble.

It was a relief that I saw news about voice phishing on TV the other day.

I had no idea that telling the company to call the company directly would be so useful.

I quickly deleted the texts related to ⌜Moonlight⌟ on my smartphone.

The walk back home was very comfortable.

Lulu.

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⌜Moonlight⌟ A&R Team 1.

“Why do not you answer? why!”

“well. Shall we send another text? Or phone?”

Park Hoon shook his head in response to the Tsarina’s question.

“no. “We also have pride.”

“uh···. “Didn’t you say just this morning that you were going to throw away all your pride and go all in?”

“At least not today. Do it tomorrow. Around dinner time tomorrow. Could it be that you were still sleeping? Because most composers work at night. “Let’s wait one more day.”

“······.”

‘You really know someone but don’t know.’

Tsarina glanced at the time and was lost in thought.

I sent a text message around lunchtime and now it’s already dinner time. Honestly, it doesn’t make sense that I didn’t see the text message.

‘perhaps···.’

Tsarina shared her thoughts with Manager Park Hoon.

“We sent a text message saying we won the Excellence Award. “For now, use safe bread.”

“uh. “Why is that?”

“But what if you didn’t like it?”

“what?”

“Anyone who can compose a song at the level of ⌜TEST⌟ must be well aware of their abilities, but the Excellence Award was not enough. There are a lot these days, right? Refusal of award. I don’t need awards like this! I only want a place that accepts me! “I heard it was like that at a spring literary contest, so how can our company be like that?”

“······ So you don’t like the Excellence Award?”

“Even if it’s an excellence award, the only prize is 500,000 won and one-on-one feedback. Honestly, it’s worth it. I heard this contest is a bit petty, right? “I was upset because they decided to support the release of music starting from the grand prize.”

“······.”

“Well, what should I do? I have to give up. Then, leave ⌜TEST⌟ aside…”

“no!”

Park Hoon was adamant.

“I only have him! “I’m already in love with this song!”

“Then what are you going to do?”

“I heard the composer wasn’t satisfied with the Excellence Award? Then you should try upgrading your grade.”

“······?”

“good. Are you a self-respecting composer? In fact, I like it more. Then shouldn’t I do the same? Assistant Manager.”

“yes.”

“This TO car assistant manager made, right? This time I finish it. So, please call the managing director’s secretary.”

“Suddenly?”

“uh. I’m going to the show myself. ⌜TEST⌟ can persuade you. Music release? Hehe. That’s funny. We are making a new version of this. ⌜Moonlight⌟ Team 1, let’s do it! Car valet! “We can do it!”

“······.”

It’s 8 o’clock, well past work time.

Manager Park Hoon suddenly began to burn with enthusiasm.

The night of ⌜Moonlight⌟ has just begun.

and.

The tsarina secretly wiped away her tears.

I thought to myself, ‘Chief… What about after work…? Shouting, ‘Hehehe.’