MUSICAL WORKS

QI Mengjie (Maggie) / 亓梦婕

Breathing / 呼吸 / Hu Xi

Birth C: CHINA Gender: Female

Dest: Concert

Media Specification: AudioVisual

Performer(s): Thea Mesirow (USA)

Duration: 6:20

Instruments: Cello

Setup: Central Conservatory of Music

Prog. notes: Breathing is so essential in our lives; sometimes we take it for granted, and never perceive and appreciate it. It means the aliveness of our body, the pace of our mind, and even the freedom of being able to be alive and be active.

The composer tries to create a meditative musical space for the audience to experience their own breathing, with the timbre varies between the original cello sounds and the synthesized sounds in the electronic music, people will perceive their own pace through intensive sounds and relaxing sounds. All the images develop to abstract phantoms following the development of the sounds.
呼吸在我们的生命和生活中必不可少。有时我们会因它自然的存在而认为理所当然，甚至不去感知它的存在。呼吸是我们生命存在的象征，是意识和思想的律动，甚至是作为一个个体能够存在的自由。

通过声音音色在大提琴和电子音乐之间的游离变化，在紧张和放松的音响中体验不同的呼吸状态；影像跟随声音的呼吸变化展开一系列的虚实幻影。作曲家尝试为听众创造一个冥想式的声音空间来感受到自己的呼吸，感受生命的律动和轨迹。

Editor: XM