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Music is sound—a wave that travels through the air, invisible to the eye. We experience music directly and sensuously, without cognitive interpretation. This very nature of music makes it one of the most effective catalysts for conveying or evoking emotions in film.
The same scene can feel entirely different depending on its soundtrack: it can fill the audience with joyful anticipation, cast a sense of melancholy, or heighten tension.
When the visual intensity of film meets the emotional resonance of music within a single moment, the two media create new energy beyond mere coexistence. That is precisely how we ‘sense’ a film—visually, aurally, and with our entire body.

Here lies another kind of sense often overlooked in the digital age: the tactile sensation of physical x-x-x-x-objects, that is, materiality. The touch conveyed through fingertips allows us to experience things through our five senses, restoring layers of perception that have been diminished by digital convenience.
While it has become commonplace to organize schedules in memo apps, take photos with smartphone cameras, and read e-books, we still take care in choosing a pen for our planners, print photographs to display on our desks, and browse books by flipping through pages one by one at bookstores.

The same is true for music. Though digital streaming allows us to listen to music anytime and anywhere with a single tap, we still collect fragile LPs and CDs or search for easily stretched cassette tapes. It is not just about hearing the sound; it is about the weight felt when lowering a turntable's tone arm onto an LP, the shimmer of a CD's surface, and the ‘click’ of a cassette deck's button. All these sensory experiences are part of the process of enjoying music.

Digging Soundtracks - Korean Film Music on LPs, Cassettes, and CDs invites you to encounter film music through this ‘sensory experience’.
Film music albums that have been dormant in the Korean Film Archive's vaults for the past 50 years are now on display to meet the audience. An archive is not merely a storage facility but a living space where collective memories and time are preserved, then called into the present to gain new vitality. When visitors hold old LPs, cassette tapes, and CD covers in their hands while listening to music flowing from turntables and players, a unique sensory experience unfolds that transcends the boundaries of time, bridging the past and present.