The Dianshui Nan Music Band from Quanzhou performed live.
Photo by China News Service reporter Zhang Hengwei
China News Service, Shanghai, March 1 (Reporter Zhang Hengwei and Wang Ji) "Create a musical melody based on the theme of "Melancholy Rainy Day".
On February 29, at the launch ceremony of the "Digital Muse-2024 Music Technology Innovation Festival" at the Shanghai Concert Hall, an interesting scene occurred. An audience member performed an impromptu performance PK to the musician Zhu Xuzhi and the artificial intelligence computer respectively. question.
While the artificial intelligence was performing calculations, Zhu Xuzhi won applause from the audience with a soothing and tender piano melody.
Immediately afterwards, the artificial intelligence on the big screen also responded with 5 works, and the melody gave people a more relaxed and comfortable intuitive feeling.
Gao Yuejie, an audio algorithm engineer who demonstrated this technology to the audience, said: "Every designer who does AI research and development, the original intention of creating tools is to help artists inspire inspiration or improve efficiency. Of course, in the end, the artist's inspiration is irreplaceable. of."
"AI is both an opponent and a friend of our creators."
Zhu Xuzhi responded: "I very much embrace this new technology, and I also look forward to AI being able to create unimaginable musical moments."
At present, the development of music technology is iterating at an astonishing speed. The innovative applications brought about by the integration of music art and technology are becoming a huge driving force for the renewal and development of traditional culture.
The "Digital Muse - 2024 Music Technology Fusion Festival" planned to be held at the Shanghai Concert Hall from March to April will not only bring a new audio-visual experience to Shanghai audiences, but also showcase future music performances for musicians and technology people Form provides the stage.
"We launched the Music Technology Fusion Festival to present the wonderful ideas generated by the collision of musicians and technology R&D personnel in the process of co-creation, allowing digital to empower art and art to empower technology, achieving a two-way journey between traditional performance and future presentation." Cadillac· Fang Liang, general manager of the Shanghai Concert Hall, told reporters that he hopes the concert hall platform can find creative partners for more musicians and scientific and technical personnel, so that more new ideas and new works can attract the attention of producers, theaters, and brokerage companies.
This music festival includes five units: "Infinite Fun" performance, special presentation, music technology innovation forum, creative promotion conference and workshop.
Among them, the "Infinite Music" performance is solicited by musicians from all over the world at the Shanghai Concert Hall to build an international display platform for outstanding original music works.
After the selection of five Chinese and foreign "chief recommendation officers", Yu Yang (China), Daniel Hope (Germany), Huang Ruo (USA), Chen Zhiyi (China), and Gabriel Prokofiev (UK), the four styles A variety of works were selected.
Among them, "Dream Space - Xu Zhihan Jazz Orchestra Concert" will present the colorful jazz fusion of Western classical music and Chinese elements and folk characteristics.
Chen Zhiyi, the music producer of the game "Genshin Impact", believes that the musicians, led by composer and jazz guitarist Xu Zhihan, have superb jazz improvisation skills, and the arrangement of the works reflects the collision of tradition and innovation.
In the "Past is the Future, Digital World Heritage 'Nanyin+' Concert", Quanzhou's Dianshui Nanyin Band will present Quanzhou Nanyin, a world intangible cultural heritage and a "living fossil" of ancient Chinese music.
On the basis of exploring the southern music of ancient music, the band added synthesizers, ruan, percussion, guitar, bass and other instrument arrangements.
"Mange Xing - AI Music Narrative Across Time and Space" created by the creative team of Limited Image Studio and related laboratories of Tongji University School of Design and Innovation, uses minimalist electronic music as the carrier, and Pingtan performers as narrators.
"Sounds of All Things - Electronic Music and Digital Image Concert" represents cross-regional and cross-cultural music exploration, covering various musical cultural characteristics such as Shanghai's folk nursery rhymes, Jiangsu's guqin culture, and Shanxi's social opera gongs and drums.
In addition, in the special presentation section, the Shanghai Concert Hall specially invited two works of "The Sound of Silence" and "Power and Freedom" by the Berlin musical theater group Nico and the Navigator to perform in Shanghai for their Asian premiere, integrating live music, physical performances, and real-time images. and other art forms, reinterpreting the classic works of Schubert and Beethoven from a contemporary perspective.
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