Chapter 67 Another new topic (2-in-1 7k)
Sun Qin pedaled his bicycle wildly all the way. After arriving at the unit, he adjusted his breathing to calm himself down, and then went straight to their topic group Walk to where Changsun Zonglu is.
Sun Zonglu is currently busy reviewing new topics. Recently, the planning projects submitted by the members of the topic team are worse than the last, with neither new ideas nor highlights.
He is not blindly pursuing new ideas. Old things are fine if they can be done well, but in these special planning, he does not see that they can do a good job in the program.
"Team leader." Sun Qin approached and shouted.
"What's wrong?" Sun Zonglu put down the planning book in his hand and rubbed his eyes, "It's best not to tell me some bad news now. My head hurts enough today."
Sun Qin said with a smile, " It's good news."
Hearing the good news, Sun Zonglu opened his eyes, "What good news?"
"I found the composer of "Aftertaste of Yanjing".
"Music engineer?" Sun Zonglu twitched his eyebrows, "Did you find someone from outside?"
The last time Sun Qin came to him to talk about the soundtrack, he had already told Sun Qin that he would wait until the film was shot before talking about the soundtrack. Unexpectedly, this kid was still thinking about it, and even went to find the scorer himself.
Sun Qin did not answer Sun Zonglu's question directly. He just took out his Walkman and put the earphones into Sun Zonglu's ears.
Sun Zonglu leaned back, took the earphones from Sun Qin's hand, and asked, "What's in this, just put it into my ears?"
Sun Qin explained with a smile. He said, "This is the score written by the scorer I found. It has just been recorded. Team leader, please listen to it." I’m anxious.”
Although Sun Zonglu said so, he still put on the headphones and fiddled with the Walkman: "How do you make this thing?"
The Walkman is a new thing. Sun Zonglu has also seen it, but he doesn't have it. I've tried it before, but I don't know how to do it.
“Let me help you.”
Sun Qin helped turn on the Walkman, and then asked, “Team leader, did you hear the sound?”
Sun Zonglu looked at it Sun Qin didn't speak. He heard the sound, but it was just the noise of idling.
After waiting for a short while, the music finally started.
Different from Zhou Yan’s previous flute solo, the version recorded this time is much richer.
When Sun Zonglu heard the first paragraph, doubts appeared in his eyes, because he couldn't tell what kind of musical instrument the sound was. There seemed to be some piano sound hidden, and some kind of flute? Or the sound of a metal wind instrument?
These sounds together give people a light and mysterious feeling.
It's like in a bright moonlit night with few stars, the stars in the sky flicker here and there, and these countless starlights keep flowing with the stars.
Just when Sun Zonglu stopped worrying about what instrument it was and gradually immersed himself in the music itself, suddenly, a distant bell rang, and the music became majestic.
In this section, he seemed to hear many Chinese national musical instruments, such as chimes, fou, drums... they sounded very similar, but not the same. These sounds are woven together to construct a picture of a palace with yellow tiles, red walls and cornices.
What surprised Sun Zonglu the most was the section immediately following it. It was a type of wind instrument that he could not recognize at all. It pushed the illusion of the whole piece to the extreme and also made the previous section even more unrecognizable. The magnificent palace painting that was constructed in one section gradually moved away, reaching a place that was far away from the listener in time and space.
......
Sun Qin had been watching the time, waiting for Sun Zonglu to finish listening to the music. More than four minutes later, Sun Zonglu suddenly started playing with the Walkman in his hand.
"What's wrong, team leader?" Sun Qin asked.
"How do you adjust this thing to the back?" Sun Zonglu looked at the Walkman and muttered.
“Turn it back?”
“Well, I’ll listen to it again.”
Hearing that Sun Zonglu wanted to listen to it again, Sun Qin smiled and helped him listen to it again. The tape is adjusted to a place where the song does not begin.
This time, Sun Zonglu listened more carefully, and when he heard the middle part, he asked Sun Qin to help him tune it back. He listened to one section five or six times.
After listening for more than ten minutes, Sun Zonglu put down the Walkman in his hand.
He looked at Sun Qin, "This piece of music was written specifically for the Forbidden City, right?"
Sun Qin gave a thumbs up and then slapped him with flattery, " If you weren’t the team leader, you could even hear this.”
Sun Zonglu smiled. This song has such a royal flavor, and combined with Sun Qin’s sampling situation, it is naturally easy to associate it with it. To the Forbidden City.
"Team leader, are you satisfied with this piece?" Sun Qin asked again.
Sun Zonglu did not immediately express his opinion.
If you just ask him if this piece of music is good, the answer is very simple. He will answer immediately: good.
This piece of music is indeed very good, very narrative, and it is particularly suitable for the Forbidden City.
But the problem is that it only fits with elements such as the Forbidden City. The "Aftertaste of Yanjing" that Sun Qin is currently producing not only has materials from the Forbidden City, but also many modern and life-oriented materials. materials, these materials do not fit the music.
Sun Zonglu didn't speak at this time, thinking whether he could cut out a section from this piece of music and put it on the Forbidden City material in "Aftertaste of Yanjing".
But after thinking for a while, Sun Zonglu shook his head helplessly.
This song has a strong sense of narrative. If a short section in the middle is forcibly cut out, the effect will be much worse, which would be a very regrettable thing.
In addition, if the most magnificent section in the middle is put in, how should the other materials be scored? When the Forbidden City material is put together with other materials, it will definitely look very out of sync.
Seeing Sun Zonglu not speaking and shaking his head, Sun Qin also became nervous and asked cautiously, "Team leader, what do you think of this song "Memory of the Forbidden City"?"
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When he heard that the title of the song was "Memory of the Forbidden City", Sun Zonglu frowned even more tightly, "Sun Qin, you are posing a problem for me."
"Huh?"
Sun Zonglu smiled slightly Sighing, "This piece of music definitely can't be included in "Aftertaste of Yanjing". The film is too short..."
Before Sun Zonglu could finish speaking, Sun Qin hurriedly said, "Group We can increase the length of "Aftertaste of Yanjing". Didn't Director Liu and his colleagues extend the length of "The Streets" from seven minutes to half an hour? We can also... If it doesn't work, we can also extend the original one. The theme is changed to the Forbidden City special topic..."
At the end, Sun Qin's voice became softer and weaker as he spoke, and he became less and less confident. He knew that extending the time was already very troublesome, and changing the topic directly would make it even more difficult. trouble.
Sun Zonglu looked at Sun Qin with a smile, "It turns out that you don't know that this piece of music is not suitable for "Aftertaste of Yanjing", you are just trying to modify the theme."
Sun Zonglu said it through, Sun Qin stopped covering up and said openly, "Team leader, I feel that it would be a pity not to use this piece. If we can't modify the topic, please extend the time to more than 20 minutes."< br>
Sun Zonglu shook his head, "It is impossible to extend the time. This piece of music is too catchy. Putting it in will affect the display of other materials."
"There must be something It's worth it." Sun Qin couldn't help but say.
Sun Zonglu rubbed his pen, and then said in a deep voice, "No need to change, no need to change. We will add another topic, called "Memory of the Forbidden City." When you go back, you will make a plan for a new plan. .”
"I made a simple one." Sun Qin replied subconsciously.
When he decided to use "Memory of the Forbidden City", Sun Qin was already ready to modify the topic, so he made a simple topic modification plan.
Sun Zonglu waved his hand and said, "Simple is not enough. It must be detailed and go to a meeting. The more detailed the better. After you are done, show it to me."
Sun Qin rubbed his hands, "Then do we still want to continue the project "Aftertaste of Yanjing"?"
Just now I heard Sun Zonglu say that he would add a new topic. Sun Qin was also surprised. Didn't he think about it before? Make a new topic.
But new topics are also very troublesome, because making new ones means there will be two.
“Of course we have to do it. Aren’t we almost done with the material? If you feel that it’s too busy to do two projects at the same time, give the material of “Aftertaste to Yanjing” to Lao Liu and let him do it. "
"No, no need." Sun Qin waved his hands quickly, "I have absolutely no problem."
He has almost finished the wedding dress, so of course he cannot give it to others.
Sun Zonglu nodded and said, "Okay, when can you get the "Memory of the Forbidden City" project book in front of me?"
"One week, no, three days, three days later I will bring the plan." After finishing speaking, Sun Qin patted his chest again and said, "Team leader, I can issue a military order to you."
"The military order will not be issued for you." Sun Zonglu waved his hand and asked, "Where did you get this tune from?"
Sun Qin also laughed when Sun Zonglu asked about the origin of the tune, " It’s a coincidence that I took Xiao Hu and Xiao Li to the Forbidden City to shoot footage, and I happened to meet Director Wang Junzheng and the others filming, and their music director was also there at the time.”
“Director Wang recently. There’s a new play.”
“Well, it’s called “Heaven’s Reply.” It’s finished now.”
"Who is their soundtrack director?"
"Zhou Yan."
Sun Zonglu thought for a while and didn't remember who Zhou Yan was, but that's normal. There are so many people who do soundtracks, but no one is really famous. Of course, he didn't know many of them.
“So, you asked someone to help you score the music?”
Sun Qin shook his head, “I really didn’t take the score seriously at first, but I heard Director Wang say that she gave the film music for Zhou Yan The song I wrote modified the originally planned shot, so I became curious and listened to that piece of music. That piece of music immediately caught my ear, and then I went to Yangyin to find Zhou Yan. "< br>
"Is he Yangyin's teacher?" Sun Zonglu asked.
Sun Qin shook his head again, "He is a student of the composition department, and this piece is his new semester work."
Hearing that Zhou Yan was a student of the composition department, Sun Zonglu was silent for a while , he didn’t care whether the composer was a student or a teacher, he just felt a little emotional, today’s young people are really amazing.
But this young man came from Yangyin, which makes sense.
Sun Zonglu came into contact with a lot of the students from the 77th and 78th grade of Yangyin University. Tan Dun won the Dresden International Weber Chamber Music Prize with his string quartet "Ode to Fengya" before graduation. Second Prize in Composition Competition.
This incident was quite sensational at the time, because Tan Dun became the first Chinese composer to win an international composition award.
At that time, Sun Zonglu was already the leader of the special team. They did a special project on this matter and even sent people to interview Tan Dun.
When Tan Dun comes out to compete, it seems quite normal for Zhou Yan to perform like this.
Sun Zonglu really wanted to meet Zhou Yan. Maybe Zhou Yan was a talented musician like Tan Dun and others.
However, the music score has not been finalized yet, so he did not mention it to Sun Qin. He just said, "You can write the plan and we will talk about other things later."
"Okay."
Sun Qin turned around and left. At this moment, he was so motivated that he wanted to write out the plan immediately.
"Don't worry." Sun Zonglu called him from behind, "You don't want this Walkman anymore."
Sun Qin patted his forehead, he had to return the Walkman to Zhou Yan .
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After the music was recorded, Zhou Yan also had to prepare for the performance of his semester works. Their 88-level end-of-semester concert was finally scheduled for June 8, with two weeks left.
Zhou Yan’s work has been finished, so he is not in a hurry. He has not been busy with his own work these two days. He has been guiding the works of 88-level students.
On Saturday afternoon, Jia Guoping came back from outside. Seeing Zhou Yanzheng reading a book very comfortably, he asked curiously, "Have you finished your semester work? Why do you look so idle?"
Zhou Yan raised his head and smiled, "Basically, it's almost done."
Jia Guoping said strangely, "I don't know how you prepared, but it's done? Have all the musicians been found by then? How many are there? "People?" "Plus myself, four people," Zhou Yan replied.
“Four?” Jia Guoping frowned, he felt it was a bit less.
In fact, for the semester's new works concert, four instruments are not too few, and there are also many solos and duets by other students.
But Zhou Yan’s situation is different. Zhou Yan is a genius who wrote multiple movement symphonies in the third grade. His semester works cannot be too simple.
"What are the four instruments? A string quartet?"
Zhou Yan shook his head, "It's piano, violin, electronic synthesizer and jazz drums."
Jia Guoping was stunned, what kind of combination is this?
He knows a little bit about jazz drums, but he doesn’t know anything about electronic synthesizers.
"You asked me before if anyone in school plays drums, just for the semester project?"
"Yes." Zhou Yan nodded.
Jia Guoping pondered for a while and said, "Zhou Yan, I don't know much about electronic synthesizers and jazz drums, so it's hard to comment. But if the four instruments you mentioned are put together on stage, the visual effect will definitely be worse. If If you can use traditional instruments, you should try to use traditional instruments.”
“I have also considered this, but traditional instruments cannot achieve the effect I want.”
“The effect is very different. "?" Jia Guoping asked.
Zhou Yan shook his head, "It's not that big..."
"Then I suggest you use traditional musical instruments."
Before Zhou Yan could say anything else, Jia Guoping continued, "Let me tell you, don't think that your semester works don't matter. Your situation is different. This time your semester works will most likely affect your graduation time."
< br>"What?" Zhou Yan looked surprised.
Jia Guoping nodded, "Well, you are originally in the fourth grade, and your academic level is high. As long as your work performs well this semester, the department may let you graduate directly with the 87th grade students next year. , No need to wait for another year."
"Did you hear what anyone said?" Zhou Yan asked.
Jia Guoping did not go into details, only said, "It's the news inside."
Zhou Yan nodded. Jia Guoping was now considered a teacher in the department, so he could know some information that ordinary students did not know.
Think about it carefully, if the department is really willing to let him graduate with the class of 1987, this semester's work is indeed very important.
Because he is now in the 88th grade, graduating with the 87th grade is an early graduation, and early graduation requires going through the process in advance.
Class 87 graduates next summer, so he needs to apply at the end of this semester or the beginning of next semester, and the results will be available by the end of next semester.
During this period, the concert of new works this semester is the most important.
Zhou Yan also sat up straight when he heard that he hoped to graduate with the Class of 1987.
Jia Guoping is right. If "Memory of the Forbidden City" is performed according to its original version, no matter how good the music itself is, the visual effect will be completely insufficient.
If you want to make the visual effect better, you must add more instruments. This is no problem, because without the use of electronic synthesizers, playing this song would require adding a lot of instruments.
The key issue is that there are only two weeks until the 88-level new work concert. He needs to find all the musicians and ask them to cooperate with him to get "Memory of the Forbidden City" in a short time. Next, this step is very difficult.
Of course, there is another way, which is for Zhou Yan to find a mature orchestra outside and let them play his own music.
There are very few domestic bands that can do private work, and even if there were, Zhou Yan couldn't afford to hire one.
It may not cost much to hire an orchestra to play a piece of music, but it is different to hire an orchestra to accompany you to practice a piece of music you have written for two weeks. The price will be many times higher.
Seeing that Zhou Yan was silent, Jia Guoping asked, "What are you hesitating about?"
Zhou Yan answered truthfully, "I was thinking that there might not be enough time. It takes time to find musicians. , it takes time to practice and adjust."
Jia Guoping nodded, "Time is indeed tight, but it is not hopeless. What instruments do you need?"
"Quite a few, one piano, six violins, four violas, four cellos, four double basses..."
Before Zhou Yan finished speaking, Jia Guoping interrupted him, "Stop, stop, stop. , although you say that this semester's work is very important to you, you can't be so exaggerated. Our graduation works can't reach this configuration. Besides, your semester's work is performed in the classroom. You just mentioned this configuration. , the small stage in the classroom can’t fit in, I suggest reducing it to one or two.”
“Then it’s the same one, but it’s still quite a lot.”
Jia Guoping nodded. , "The time is a bit tight, but it's okay to work harder. You can do the flute yourself, and I'll do the piano... I'm too busy during this period, so I'll find Zhang Xinning from the piano department for you."
Zhou Yan blinked his eyes and said, "You are looking for senior sister, really because of me?"
Jia Guoping was a little embarrassed at first, then said with a straight face, "If not for you, for whom else, do you want to graduate early?"
"Yes, of course, I'm not worried about Senior Sister Zhang's class. Too busy.”
“She’s fine now, she doesn’t have many classes.”
The reason why Zhou Yan made fun of Jia Guoping was because there was a bit of ambiguity between Jia Guoping and Zhang Xinning.
Zhang Xinning is from the 86 Piano Department. After graduating from her undergraduate degree last year, she stayed at the Affiliated Middle School of her school to teach piano. Because of her, Jia Guoping went to the Affiliated Middle School whenever he had something to do.
Afterwards, the two discussed which musicians they wanted to find, and after roughly deciding on them, they split up to look for them.
The two were very efficient and found all the musicians in just two days.
In fact, the main reason is that Jia Guoping has a wide network of contacts, and he helped find most of them.
After getting the musicians, Zhou Yan took the time to take them to practice and get used to it.
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Time flies so fast, June 8th arrives in the blink of an eye.
At early eight o'clock in the morning, the classroom of the Composition Department was already very busy. In addition to students from the Composition Department, there were also many students from other departments who came to help with the performance.
Everyone is still very relaxed. Although the semester new works concert is also very important, the audience is only classmates and teachers from their own classes, and the teachers will not come.
The main thing is that the head teacher Li Bingyang is here, and Li Bingyang doesn't care much about the students' homework, so the students don't have any pressure in front of Li Bingyang.
Zhou Yan's mentality is also good. Although the time is tight, everyone has cooperated very well during this period. They had the last rehearsal yesterday and everyone performed very well.
When he arrived at the composition department classroom, Jia Guoping and Zhang Xinning were already standing at the door.
"Senior sister, you came so early. Our performance is the last one, you can come later."
Zhou Yan's performance was arranged to be the last one, not because Zhou Yan is great, but because Zhou Yan is the last one. It's because he repeated a grade.
Zhang Xinning said with a smile, "Anyway, it's Saturday, I don't have anything else to do, so I'll come over early and have a look. Your department's semester concert of new works is quite popular."
Zhou Yan He glanced at Jia Guoping next to him and joked, "I asked why Lao Jia didn't wait for me to have dinner with me this morning. It turned out that he was going to pick up his senior sister."
Jia Guoping blushed and hurriedly defended, "I got up early in the morning, so I came here first."
"Understood." Zhou Yan smiled and saw Yu Ran walking towards him. Fang Xiu waved, "Junior sister, this way."
When the two junior sisters saw Zhou Yan and the others, they also smiled and walked over quickly.
Yu Ran is the violinist today, while Fang Xiu is in charge of the cello. There is also a viola they helped find, which has not arrived yet.
After coming over, the two of them greeted politely, "Senior Brother Zhou Yan, Senior Brother Jia, and Senior Sister Zhang."
Zhou Yan asked: "Why did you come so early?"
Fang Xiu showed a meaningful smile, "I wanted to come later, but I couldn't stand someone who kept urging me."
The person she was talking about was naturally Yu Ran, and Yu Ran whispered, "I also want to listen to other music from the concert."
Many people came one after another, some from the composition department students and the musicians they found, some of whom came from other majors to watch the performance.
Most of the people who came knew Jia Guoping and Zhou Yan, and they all came to say hello to them.
Zhang Xinning has participated in several semester new works concerts of the Composition Department before. Seeing so many people came, he was a little surprised, "There seem to be so many people today."
The Composition Department's semester new works concert is indeed It will attract students from other departments, but there won’t be too many people, and everyone will mainly come to see the fourth and fifth grade students.
Like this semester, the performance of the graduation works of the 86th class and the concert of new works of the 87th class will definitely attract more attention, because the works of the senior students will be more mature and exciting.
Jia Guoping said with a smile, "The main reason is that more people came to listen to "Memory of the Forbidden City."
He was right, many people came to listen to "Memory of the Forbidden City" today. ", it's not that "Memory of the Forbidden City" is already famous in the school, but Zhou Yan has hired a lot of musicians for this performance, and if these musicians want to perform on stage, their friends will naturally come to see them.
Especially for those who are relatively famous in the department, such as Yu Ran, many boys are willing to watch her performances.
There are also some who are interested in Zhou Yan, such as those from the 87 Composition Department, many of whom came today.
At 8:50, everyone has entered the classroom one after another. Li Bingyang and two other teachers have also arrived, and the first student to perform is already preparing on the stage.
At this moment, department director Shi Wanchun walked in with an old man in his sixties.
Seeing the two of them, Li Bingyang, who was sitting in the front row, stood up immediately, followed by Zhou Yan and others.
The person who came with Shi Wanchun was none other than Wu Zuqiang, the previous principal of Yangyin.
Although Wu Zuqiang left office in 1988, he is still active in the school and most students know him.
"Principal Wu, Director Shi, why are you here free?" Li Bingyang asked in surprise.
Wu Zuqiang said with a smile, "Are you going to start?"
"Not yet, we will start soon."
The two of them did not answer Li Bingyang's question, and Li Bingyang did not dare to continue asking, and quickly asked the two of them to sit down.
Li Bingyang was not surprised when Wan Chun came over. Everyone in the play knew that Zhou Yan was Director Shi's favorite.
His protégé is going to perform on stage today, so it’s normal for Shi Wanchun to come over and have a look.
I just don’t know why Wu Zuqiang is here.
As soon as the two of them came over, the atmosphere of the scene suddenly changed.
Xu Lang, who was sitting in the second row, was chatting with Shen Huaigang next to him with a playful smile. Now his body became very upright, as if he had been filled with cement.
The other students were not much better. They all sat upright and did not dare to make any unnecessary noise.
If they could talk, they would definitely ask why Shi Wanchun and Wu Zuqiang came together?
At this time, the originally relaxed and happy scene of the new semester work became tense and serious.
Not only the composition students were nervous, but also the students from other departments who were pulled over by the composition students to help perform the works. After all, they were the ones performing on the stage.
When Zhou Yan saw Shi Wanchun and Wu Zuqiang coming over, he had basically confirmed the authenticity of the news revealed by Jia Guoping.
He couldn't help but sigh, Shi Wanchun was so selfless, and he didn't even tell himself about this kind of thing in advance.
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