I’ve been interested in several events that introduced Western musical systems to East Asia, including Korea, and their gradual dominance in East Asian music. I'm looking specifically at topics such as tunings, and what happened in transition. 
The work, Brilliant A, traces the establishment of international standard pitch, which is A equals 440Hz. Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, standard pitch rose steadily as a result of continuous meetings between various countries. Its rise has also been attributed to competition among instrument makers to produce a more brilliant sound. Similarly, European and American marching bands aimed to improve soldier morale by raising their tuning pitch, resulting in a more brilliant sound. Lastly, it is said that the rise in pitch was also due to increased background noise during modernization. 
In addition to an auditory history of standard pitch, I am drawn to the individual narrative of a violin maker, who worked for a marching band and started his craft during the Korean war. Interviews I have gathered reveal his primitive curiosities and observations of sound, through his descriptions of instrument repair.
To reach to the sound in the past, I extracted texts from reports and conference materials and rearranged to resemble meeting minutes. I also intercut the violin maker's monologue with moments in the fictional meeting and crafted various sounds based on the texts.