Category: year 1
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CSP outcome review
This is the complete version of the final outcome. Advantage: For me, this attempt to compose is a brand new experience, and it broke many existing ways and notions of my work before. Firstly, the idea of my former work that choose the naturally existing things as symbols and imagery. Then, improvisation and composing many…
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CSP6 work process
This is the improvisation of using the module synthesis. I like how these different abrupt voices and unexpected surprises come together which is the favourite thing in improvisation. Like adjusting different sound effects and buttons can make very delicate and beautiful voice variation. There are three drum and synthesis pieces that were made separately. I…
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CSP 3
This week, I used the module synthesis to make some creative improvisations. There are four sound sources, two of which I used for the main sound and two for background and background noise. I haven’t used synthesis for improvisations before, which is very close to DJ. But it needs more attention and immersion. In Friday’s…
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GSC
As for the assignment, I want to explore the reason why Cantonese Opera is getting less popular over time. And this is not only happening in Cantonese Opera but also in other Chinese traditional operas. As a native that born and raised in Canton, I hold the belief that opera is a manifestation of the…
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GSC
When it comes to Cantonese Opera, most people think it is entertainment for the older generation, like my grandparents. But the Cantonese pop music is widely spread and popular among both Hong Kong and the mainland. Interestingly, a famous Cantonese pop female singer called Faye Wong is the most successful singer who is famous for…
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CSP 2
This week, we are getting closer to half-module and retro synthesis. While using the retro synth, I can directly know how two oscillators work together to make a sound. And these retro but classic effects are the basis of understanding the synthesis. I wanted to make a clean and crystal texture voice with some echoes…
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GSC 2
The contradictions and conflicts in society and hierarchy always inspire the development and appearance of aggressive and innovative art, especially in music. Taking music from black people as an example, most of it originated from the rebels and segregation, especially jazz and blues. With improvisation and breaking down beats and melody, it became a strong…
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CSP 1
Collage is something that I am always fond of, because it takes two completely different things together and sees how they spark. And I think the DADA movement shares the same spirit with collage that extracts something rough and sticks it somewhere it doesn’t belong. Like the famous piece Fountain. It is nonsensical and more…
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GSC
I am really impressed by Claudia’s music installation called Five Defense Towers. It is a really multi-media work that interwines words, simple melody, switching of the position, and the requirement for asking people to look up. This artist used the variation of perspectives and views in an attempt to ask people to look at her…
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GSP research
To dig more into the Cantonese Opera, I listened to the most famous 3 Cantonese Operas that some of which were made in the Qing Dynasty, and some were made after China. The first one is called Dae Neui Fa in Cantonese or Dinühua in Mandarin. This is the first opera piece that I first…