MUSICAL WORKS

CHENG Chien-Wen / 鄭建文

2013

Southern Mountain Lakes / 南山

Birth Y: 1972 Birth C: TAIWAN Gender: Male

Dest: mixed music with live electronics

Media Specification: Live electronics

Duration: ca 8'

Instruments: for soprano and Max/MSP

Media: https://youtu.be/U3poDu5LW4A

Prog. notes: Southern Mountain Lakes is inspired by the poem "Southern Mountain Lakes" of Hakka poet Liang Tzao in Tang Dynasty. The piece mainly portrays the peacefulness, leisure and totally contented life in the mountains as described in the poem. Different modes of the Pentatonic scale are used in the vocal part mixed with the recitation of the poem. The computer interacts with the live soprano singer by detecting the pitch, note density, and note length to trigger real-time effects including reverberation, looper, granular synthesis, delay, harmonizer, and etc.



此曲採用閩西客家詩人梁藻的作品《南山》為歌詞：「翡翠吹翻荷帶雨，鷺鷲飛破竹林煙。時沽村酒臨軒酌，擬摘新葉靠石煎」。人聲部分以五聲音階為音高控制的主要準則，搭配唸誦與吟唱，配合互動電腦音樂系統的運用，注重人聲與互動系統結合所產生的特殊織度、空間感、與空靈的氛圍。主要使用的即時效果器包含殘響、粒子化特效、延遲、合音器等，藉此傳達一種遺世拔俗、渾然自得的歌詞意境。

Editor: MB