MUSICAL WORKS

FU Yu / 付玉

Her Voices / 她的声音
[Ta De Sheng Yin]

Birth Y: 1997 Birth C: CHINA Gender: Female

Dest: Concert

Media Specification: AudioVisual

Perf. Country: CHINA

Setup: Sichuan Conservatory of Music

Prog. notes: This work depicts people's inner struggle and uneasiness when faced with difficult
decisions. The word "省" in the title means self-reflection, which expresses the
hesitation and distress of making difficult decisions. The "声" expresses the inner
voice when thinking and weighing.
In the process of thinking and making choices, many different voices will appear
inside people to tell them how to balance and choose. However, when many
voices emerge, people often fall into deeper confusion and disorientation. After a
painful struggle, people gradually regain their composure, try to analyze the
opinions expressed by different voices, and finally make a decision that suits
them, without fear of the road ahead and without further struggle. This kind of
inner introspection and reflection is a necessary process for a person to grow up,
through which people can be more brave and less hesitant.
This work takes human voice samples as the main material and creative element,
deforms and reorganizes the samples with real-time signal processing to build
different characters and objects, and uses sound effects and material
arrangement rationally to realize communication and dialogue in different time
and space.
The first part is divided into three sections. The first section is mainly based on
music and lighting, and the granular vocals show the emergence of different
voices in the composer's heart when she is faced with a choice; the second
section is a mezzo-soprano reading, expressing that in front of many voices and
choices, the composer hopes that she will not be influenced by one-sided factors,
telling herself not to be bound by other things and to follow her heart; the third
section expresses that although the main character in the composer's heart is not
a person, she should not be bound by other things and follow her heart. The third
sub-section expresses that although the subjective voice within tells oneself to
make the right decision, it does not tell which is the most correct choice at the
moment among the many voices, thus returning to the re-presentation of the
different voices within the first sub-section. The second part expresses the
extreme confusion and entanglement inside with more low frequency. The third
part mainly expresses that the composer has made a choice after a lot of internal
battles, although it is still accompanied by many inner thoughts and voices.

Editor: XM