MUSICAL WORKS
DU Xiaohu
2016
Changing
Birth C: CHINA Gender: Male
Dest: Concert
Media Specification: Mixed music
Performer(s): Percussion: Wang Yunming
First perf.: Musicacoustica Festival, 30 Octobre 2016
Duration: 07:00
Perf. Country: CHINA
Context: Wuhan Conservatory Concert
Instruments: For voice and electronics
Prog. notes: The track is featured by Chinese ethnic percussive music and compiled through electronic means. In this way, its composer tries to enable audiences to feel a brand new musical expression combining traditional Chinese musical instruments and modern technology.
The only thing that keeps unchanged in this world is “change” itself. The track is dedicated to giving expression to “change” in various aspects, namely, sound material, composition structure, rhythm and time as well as pitch of musical instruments. It aims to present a sensation of uncertainty and instability to its audiences by incessant changes. Meanwhile, it is also an embodiment of its composer’s reflections on this changeable world.
Editor: MB