After hanging up the phone on Zhang Youan, Zhou Yan was about to go back to the bathroom and continue brushing his teeth when the phone rang again.
He thought Zhang Youan had something to say, so he picked up the phone and said, "Do you have anything else to do?"
"Huh?" A confused voice came from the other side, "What's the matter? ? Zhou Yan, you got the wrong person, I'm Liu Lin."
"Oh, Principal Liu, I thought he was a friend of mine. He just hung up with me."
"I wonder why you answered so quickly." Liu Lin smiled, and then congratulated Zhou Yan, "Congratulations to you. I know everything about yesterday. It's not easy for you to win the second prize."
"The teachers in our school also won many awards this time."
"Well, that's true, but your second prize is the most important. Do you have time to come to school today? I have something to tell you. "Say."
Zhou Yan looked at the time and said, "Shall I go there in the morning?"
"Okay, I don't have anything to do in the morning. I'll just wait for you to come."
"We'll be there in half an hour."
"There's no rush, as long as I can see you in the morning."
...
After talking to Liu Lin, Zhou Yan quickly washed up, then rushed to school and arrived at Liu Lin's office.
Seeing Zhou Yan coming, Liu Lin, who was working at his desk, stood up with a smile and walked to the edge of the sofa, "Sit down, I will pour you a cup of tea, what to drink? There are Pu'er and Maofeng."< br>
“You’re welcome, principal.”
"Then let's take Mao Feng." Liu Lin didn't give Zhou Yan a chance to refuse, and went straight over to pour Zhou Yan a cup of tea. "I've heard many people say that the tea in your studio is very good. I don't have good tea here. , I can only tolerate you and deal with it briefly."
Zhou Yan took the tea cup with a smile, shook his head and said, "Principal, you are joking, I drink tea like a cow chewing peonies, I can't drink good tea or bad tea. And you can tell that your tea is good just by looking at the color.”
Liu Lin said with a smile, “While saying that I don’t understand tea, I also said that I can see that this is good tea. It’s really hard to say anything. I told you. I told you before that we are brothers in the same discipline, so you don’t have to be so outspoken when you are with me.”
Zhou Yan didn’t answer the question and just smiled. He knew what was behind Liu Lin. There should be something more to say.
As expected, without waiting for Zhou Yan's response, Liu Lin continued, "In the past twenty years, the composition department has been developing very well. In the past few years, there was concern within the school that the old teachers were gradually retiring, and the teachers in our department were There will be a shortage of students, but it turns out that we were overly worried. Now the faculty of the composition department are developing very well, and the team of young teachers has filled a lot of vacancies after they returned to the school."
Zhou Yan's brain was spinning rapidly, thinking about why Liu Lin said this at the beginning. What did he want to say when he called him over today?
But he lacked key information and had no way to understand Liu Lin's thoughts. He could only follow Liu Lin's words and said, "It is true. The faculty of the Composition Department has gradually stabilized in recent years. I have heard from students before that Complaining, saying that the number of places in this department has been getting smaller and smaller in the past two years, and there is basically no hope for undergraduates.” There are fewer and fewer teachers. If I remember correctly in our composition department, the last person to go abroad was probably Li Bingyang.”
Li Bingyang was the former class teacher of composition in 1988, and he was going to Louisiana at that time. After studying abroad in university, he handed over the work to Jia Guoping, who had just graduated and stayed at the university.
At that time, Zhou Yan, who had just graduated to the 88th grade, came forward to help Jia Guoping do a lot of things because Jia Guoping was too busy. At that time, students privately said that Zhou Yan was actually one of the composing class teachers in the 88th grade.
In fact, after Li Bingyang, there was another person who went abroad, and that was Jia Guoping.
It’s just that the situation between Jia Guoping and Li Bingyang is different. When Jia Guoping left, he said that he would return to Yangyin after graduation and return to the composition department to continue teaching.
Jia Guoping’s study abroad is more like a school assignment for further study.
Although Liu Lin was not 100% sure that Jia Guoping would come back, since Jia Guoping vowed to come back at that time, Liu Lin did not talk about Jia Guoping and Li Bingyang together.
During the time when Li Bingyang left, the school lost many teachers. From their composition department alone, two young teachers, Li Bingyang and Qu Xiaosong, left.
At that time, the entire composition department was very anxious to retain a few more students, so only Zhou Yan and Jia Guoping were retained in the 1987 undergraduate class.
Later, the department actually wanted to keep Li Tao, but Li Tao himself was unwilling.
Li Tao's thinking is different from that of ordinary people. He himself thinks that he has no ability to be a teacher and lacks a sense of responsibility.
Instead of being a teacher without ethics, it is better not to touch this matter.
It happened that Zhou Yan asked him to go to the studio, and he readily agreed.
"The domestic environment has become a little better in the past two years. Not to mention academically, at least there are more ways to make money."
People are very realistic. So many people study abroad, in order to go out and do better things. On the one hand, academic research is on the one hand, and on the other hand, it is natural to make more money abroad.
Otherwise, why don’t those who went to study abroad come back?
The income gap between domestic and foreign practitioners is really huge.
As the reform becomes more and more profound, there are more and more opportunities for literary and artistic workers to make money, and naturally some people are willing to come back.
Liu Lin nodded, "So I have always felt that your development direction is very good. Excellent graduates like Li Tao have more paths to choose from. Your studio is now very famous. Last time I attended it in Shanghai During a meeting, when chatting with many colleagues, they were very curious about your studio. Principal Jin from Shangyin was particularly interested and asked if he could visit your studio if he had time."
Zhou Yan raised his eyebrows and thought to himself that Liu Lin said so much just to bring out this matter?
"Principal, if you want to take someone to my studio, please tell me at any time and I will make arrangements for you."
Hearing what Zhou Yan said, Liu Lin pursed his lips and smiled. I sighed in my heart that Zhou Yan really didn't look like a young man in his twenties, and his words were impeccable. If it were someone else, he would probably directly welcome Principal Jin from Shangyin, but Zhou Yan did not mention Shangyin or Principal Jin. Instead, he threw the talking point back to him and gave him the decision-making power. It can be considered a statement of position.
"If they really want to go back later, they will really trouble you. In fact, I understand what President Jin and others think. Your studio is developing very well abroad and is a good employment route. Nowadays, various music conservatories They are all considering subdividing their majors with the intention of allowing more students to join the industry after graduation. Film and television scoring is a good direction. They seem to have the idea of establishing a music engineering department and want to open a new major. What do you think about professionals related to music scores?”
“Film and television music scores?” Zhou Yan asked.
“Film and television soundtracking is only one aspect. It mainly cultivates technical talents in sound engineering, music recording, music information collection and editing for radio and television, mass media, and even the Internet.”
< br>Zhou Yan glanced at Liu Lin and guessed whether Shangyin's music engineering department wanted to open such a major, or whether Liu Lin wanted to open a related major in the composition department.
After pondering for a moment, Zhou Yan said, "This idea is good, but I'm afraid it will be difficult to realize."
Liu Lin frowned, "How do you say this?"
Zhou Yan organized his language a little, and then said, "One of the first problems faced by such majors is the enrollment standards."
< br>Liu Lin said unexpectedly, "I thought the first problem we faced was the establishment of professional courses."
"The establishment of professional courses is still coming, and it is closely related to this issue. The first thing to consider is still this Do students in majors need to pass the art exam? If so, what are the standards for the art exam? Let’s first talk about the situations where the art exam is not required. If students take this major, they don’t need the art exam. If you don’t have much music foundation before entering the major, then when the course is opened, the music curriculum cannot be arranged in depth. The final result is that students study in school for four or five years, but in the end they still cannot learn to do it. Music is more about learning some basic music theory and related concepts."
Liu Lin nodded thoughtfully, "What you said makes sense, but what if you need to pass the art exam like other students?"
"If this is the case, I'm afraid not many people are willing to apply for this major, at least not willing to apply for such majors offered by schools like ours. Compared with our school, Communication University should have more advantages. The directions you just mentioned, principal, In fact, it involves many new technologies, and these contents are the shortcomings of our traditional music schools. Let me give you my own example. In order to create new century music such as "Memory of the Forbidden City", I specially found people to spend time. After learning electronic synthesizers, no one in our school can teach them. Electronic synthesizers are only a small part of new technologies. In the future, students may also need to learn programming, film and television technology, digital signal processing and other professional knowledge. "
Liu Lin was a little surprised when Zhou Yan said it so clearly, "How do you understand these things so well?"
What Zhou Yan just said about digital signal processing and programming is completely up to him. In his blind spot of knowledge, he didn't understand why Zhou Yan knew this.
“I prefer to study some new things, especially when we make movies, we need to use a lot of new technologies. The continuous innovation of technology has always been the development trend of the film and television industry.”
“That’s why you study new age music.”
"Well, the new century isn't anything new, but apart from traditional music, it's a pretty good attempt." Zhou Yan took a sip of tea and asked seemingly casually, "Then Does Yin already have a plan?"
Liu Lin nodded, "Yes, there is a plan. In fact, the plan is almost coming to fruition."
"It's almost coming to fruition. ?" Zhou Yan was a little surprised, Shangyin moved so fast?
"Yes, their composition department will open a new major next year called 'Music Sound Director'. I have seen the introduction to their new major. There is a lot of training content, I can't remember too much , because I don’t know much about many things. I only remember electricity, electroacoustics, digital audio technology, etc.”
Zhou Yan raised his eyebrows. I have to say that the concept of Shangyin is still quite new. , and very courageous.
The profession of music and sound director can be said to closely follow the development of the times.
But the idea is beautiful, but the reality is skinny.
As Zhou Yan said just now, this type of major faces many problems.
These problems may not necessarily have no solutions, but Zhou is sure that based on Shangyin's current conditions, it is impossible for them to solve these problems.
In fact, Shangyin’s move was nothing more than crossing the river by feeling for stones.
When the major is actually opened, they will find that traditional music schools like theirs simply do not have the conditions to train music and sound directors.
“Perhaps the leaders of Shangyin have their own considerations.”
Liu Lin shook his head, “I originally thought that this direction of Shangyin was not bad, but after listening to your analysis today, I discovered that Shangyin was not fully prepared, either in practical terms or psychologically. I don’t quite understand some of the things you said, but I’m sure that the people at Shangyin weren’t very prepared either. I understand. In fact, I originally thought about setting up a similar major in our composition department, but now I have no idea at all."
Zhou Yan said with a smile, "Actually, I think I want to cultivate it. It is not necessary to open relevant majors for relevant talents. We have several majors in the composition department. If students are interested in recording and audio, they can come to our studio to study music theory. Arranging and production can also be done in school. In terms of modern technology, you can go to the studio to learn. The equipment in our studio is always being updated, and the technology is also constantly being updated. It is definitely better than the school in this aspect."
Liu Lin's eyes lit up. "This is a method. The technology of your studio can indeed make up for the shortcomings of our school. The key is that there is no need to open a new major, and the cost is much lower. However, in what form should the school cooperate with your studio?"< br>
"This is simple, just use the school-enterprise cooperation model."
"School-enterprise cooperation?" Liu Lin was not very familiar with this model.
School-enterprise cooperation is not a new thing. As early as the beginning of the 20th century, with the development of industrialization, school-enterprise cooperation models appeared in Germany and the United States.
Germany is famous for its "dual system". While students learn theoretical knowledge in school, they enter companies for practical skills training.
In the United States, the University of Cincinnati proposed the concept of "cooperative education", and the specific implementation method is similar to the German dual system.
However, in China, the concept of school-enterprise cooperation has just emerged, and it only appears in technical colleges. It is normal for Liu Lin not to understand it.
Zhou Yan explained, "We can allow some willing students to work in our studio. They will learn music-related theoretical knowledge in school and be exposed to relevant technologies while practicing in the studio." (End of this chapter)