MUSICAL WORKS

HE Yuanyuan / 贺圆圆

On the Excenter of a Blind Spot / 移动的盲点
[YiDongDeMangDian]

Birth C: CHINA Gender: Female

Dest: Concert

Media Specification: AudioVisual

Performer(s): HE Yuanyuan

Duration: 6:30

Perf. Country: CHINA

Instruments: piano

Setup: University of Arizona

Prog. notes: On the Excenter of a Blind Spot, for Piano and electronics, was inspired by the famous children’s book Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. The story tells of a girl named Alice falling through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar, anthropomorphic creatures. It seems like a simple fairy tale, but it goes much deeper than that. Carroll describes a struggle with self-identity in a very controlled existence, which is conducted by a series of bizarre events. Feeling lost becomes a recurring theme in the book as Alice regularly expresses uncertainty about who she is after she enters Wonderland.

In my piece, the piano, electronic music, and video all become increasingly more distorted until they collapse. The scene becomes a hallucination. In Alice’s story, she discovers the world through uncertainty and self-questioning. Her whole world is based on an experience of hallucination. Hallucination is a mental disorder in some traditional conceptions, but hallucination also often reflects the nature of the mind, perception and our knowledge of the world. How do we perceive the world? Is it an existence of a series of hallucinations?
创作灵感来自于著名的童话故事《爱丽丝梦游仙境》。故事讲述了一个名叫爱丽丝的女孩穿过一个兔子洞进入了一个充满奇特的拟人生物的幻想世界。这看起来像是一个简单的童话，但并非如此。作者卡罗尔描述了在一个非常受控制的存在中与自我认识的过程，这是由一系列怪诞的事件所引出的。感到迷失成为书中反复出现的主题，爱丽丝经常表达对进入仙境后“她到底是谁”的不确定性。

在我的作品中，钢琴，电子音乐和视频都变得越来越扭曲，直到作品高点时的坍塌。原本真实的场景都变成了幻觉。在爱丽丝的故事中，她通过不确定性和自我质疑来发现和认识世界。她的整个世界都是基于在幻觉中寻找经验。幻觉是一些传统观念中的精神障碍，但幻觉也常常反映了思想，感知和自我对世界的认识的本质。我们如何看待这个世界？我们的存在是否只是一系列的幻觉？

Editor: XM