Zheng, a female composer living in France. Graduated from Shanghai Conservatory of Music and Paris Higher Normal Conservatory of Music, he is a cutting-edge film music composer. The music style is unique. He is good at combining electronics with environmental music and combining it with classical music to create. His works include Mohai.
Chinese name: Zheng
Nationality: China.
Occupation: composer
Graduate school: Shanghai Conservatory of Music
Main achievements: Mohai Chinese Golden Melody Award 20 12 Nomination for Best Cross-border Album.
Representative works: Mo Hai
Gender: Female
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French female composers. Graduated from Shanghai Conservatory of Music and Paris Higher Normal Conservatory of Music, he is a cutting-edge film music composer.
Zheng's music style is unique. He is good at combining electronics with environmental music and combining it with classical music to create.
Composers are also good at combining eastern sound elements with western techniques, and the melody language is full of elegant and euphemistic beauty of oriental women. The style of music is classical, not ancient. The choice of timbre is broad and bold, covering a wide range. He is good at creating a song artistic conception with a strong sense of picture through sound materials, which brings a fresh auditory revolution to the audience.
The composer's works have an excellent sense of space. While the traditional musical instruments are widely used, the electronic music involved makes the works more concrete. For example, songs such as "Mohai" and "Wind and Fallen Leaves Temple" fully express their love for Feng Shui and natural changes. Piano and strings in music lead to gripping, low-key and charming themes, accompanied by chaotic and dreamy electronic sounds and bold techniques, which produce a unique poetry and tension.
Zheng's music and literature are inseparable. Music is still in a penetrating and quiet temperament, and gradually fluctuates between classicism and avant-garde, literature and music, image and abstraction, loss and hope, darkness and light. The cooperation with the poet Wu Boju hit it off, and his music works accurately and profoundly rendered the artistic conception of poetry. For example, the melody and soundtrack of "Narcissus" create a quiet, elegant and psychedelic scene, which is contrasted and dyed with the lyrics of anthropomorphic writing, so that the image of "Narcissus" in the lyrics is completely integrated with the song environment, thus revealing innocent but sad feelings.
Composers have a deep affinity for Buddhism and often think of ethereal traditional Buddhist culture. Even through bold and avant-garde practices, such as clockwork and chime, the abstract rational concept is concretized, thus guiding the audience to explore their own understanding of life and death and history.
Music is still permeated with quiet temperament in the gradual ups and downs, in the west and the east; Hell and Buddhism; Classical and avant-garde; Literature and music; Figurative and abstract; Loss and hope; The collision between darkness and light.
The music of the album "Mohai" is mainly piano and stringed instruments, which exudes a classical atmosphere, but the occasional addition of environmental sound sources and even noise materials makes the music feel unfashionable and has a unique aesthetic feeling.
Album introduction
Mohai is an album that interprets reincarnation with psychedelic artistic conception. The music in the album is like a scene in a dream, and dreams are smoothly connected with each other. Listening to this album is as mysterious as crossing a dream at night.
The album is divided into two parts. The first part, from daffodils to fallen leaves temple, is full of blue, which seems to depict the beauty of "Heaven, Man and Asura" in the six roads.
In the "three chapters", Narcissus, as the opening, depicts a fresh and elegant artistic conception, and tells a romantic love story in a touch of bitterness, which is calm and slightly sad. After "Mohai", the music played by strings ended in disharmony in the second half and entered "Piano Rain". It's as if I walked through the dark sea in my dream, and then it rained in Mao Mao, and some lights appeared. The dream has returned to the world, reminding people of a sad love. The wind that followed, at first, was a peaceful atmosphere, but it made the dream restless. Instead of experiencing the grassland scenery all the way, it is better to lead people to embark on a psychological journey full of fluctuations. In this anxiety, we heard the quiet bell, where we came to the "fallen leaf temple", clean and far-reaching, which is the feeling that this artistic conception gives us.
After that, we went through six roads. The song "Six Roads" is placed in the middle of eleven songs, which just illustrates the cycle between the upper and lower three roads, and it has to be said that it is a wonderful idea. The sound of wind-up in music makes us feel that time is twisted, as if the whole mind and even the whole body are twisted, like passing through a thin seam, and then we begin to enter the second half of this night's dream.
In the second half, from the dust star to the marriage, the genre is mostly strong and thick, with a feeling of ghosts and evil, which gives people a strong "red". This depicts the scene among the three evils of "animals, evil spirits and hell".
After passing through the "six divisions in the wheel of karma", people's body and mind are instantly shattered into dust, just like fragments of stardust in the universe. This is the area where the dust star led us into. After crossing this zone, we began to hear the footsteps of ghosts from far and near, and slowly came a strange but noble dance. At this dance, a penetrating voice sounded, and the "sexy" song revealed the feeling of depravity in the enchanting charm. "Copper ring" is the abyss of depravity. In the sound full of steel, people feel the flame heat beating like lava. Finally, in the intense red, we walked out of the terrible hell and embarked on the road of marriage with tragic colors.
By chance, I was lucky enough to enjoy the paintings of Mr. Ma, a famous French Chinese artist. Suddenly, I found that this painting perfectly explained the concept of the ink sea, from pure to strong red and blue, with a dreamy reflection of the sea color, as if the opposition between Taiji and two musical instruments reflected emotional conflicts. I took the liberty of asking Mr. Ma to authorize us to use the cover of this painting on the spot. I didn't expect him to readily agree on the spot. Thank you again.
Introduction of tracks
0 1. Narcissus Song: Zheng Ci Qu: Wu Boju Singing: Zheng
The fresh air is filled with faint sweetness. The afternoon sunshine cast a shadow on the side of the class in the yard, and a daffodil stood quietly at the foot of the stone brick wall. On a windless day, she is so quiet, and the dark green stems grow up gradually, like blood under a girl's tender skin. She watched the sunshine grow, and gradually grew into a familiar woman in my mind. Lyrics and songs are permeated with a fresh and elegant temperament, pure and beautiful, and subtle sadness contains beautiful expectations.
02. Mohai
The introduction of violin solo is full of singing, just like an aria. After the prelude, groups of themes began to change from bass to treble, gradually enriching the music. And the violin, the vibrato from the first two notes to the later, fluctuates like a wave. Black night, black sea, restless and inescapable heart, like a tight violin, like a boat, hopelessly unable to float.
03. Piano Rain: Zheng Ci Qu: Li Singing:
Intermittent rain, fuzzy windows, hazy sky, wet street lamp house, people watching gorgeous night lights and people on the road in the street, with cool loneliness, familiar feeling and familiar melody.
04. Wind
The breeze blowing through the grassland seems to have a faint green color, blowing from the grassland to the river and downstream. We listened to the sounds on the grassland all the way, but we got lost in the depths of the forest. The dreamy forest is full of sunshine in the dark, which makes people feel mysterious. With the reappearance of the theme, we found our way back to the grassland. The music here is walking and seems to be traveling with the audience.
05. deciduous temple
The ringing bells rang, and the big yard full of rehmannia leaves was ethereal and clean. When I close my eyes, I even seem to vaguely hear the sound of chanting, which is of great significance to meditation. After the introduction, the prelude of the piano appears, and the descending harmony falls like yellow leaves, falling and beautiful. After that, the theme of the violin finally appeared, and the beautiful melody, such as flowing water, was fresh and pure, washing away all the noise and lead.
06. Six ways
The so-called six roads: Heaven Road, Ashura Road, Man Road, Beast Road, Hungry Ghost Road and Hell Road. The six great divisions in the wheel of karma, the cycle of life and death, comes and goes. The mysterious, chaotic and slightly evil beginning seems to mean six paths to the bottom. With the progress of music, the harsh sound of clockwork breaks the normal extension of time and space, which seems to have changed, more like reincarnation. Out of the nightmare, do you want to light up? Or reincarnate into the dream of the night again and continue the dreamlike journey? The song "Six Roads" is arranged at the end. Try to press the "loop play" button and feel the dream of reincarnation.
07. Dust and stars
Flying out of the aurora sky, the broken sound of the piano seems to take us into the vast universe. Hundreds of billions of stars have their own forms, their own light, and their own orbits and laws in extreme disorder. They are messy like dust all over the sky, but they are uniform. In this strange dimension, big and small, stillness and flow seem to have no absolute meaning. Don't try to grasp the absolute meaning inside, let your thoughts drift with the wind!
08. Tango
After a long and lonely introduction, the bass entered the slow and sad tango. This is a tango dance with great character and rich plot. It reveals noble temperament in the elegant and soothing atmosphere of cello and wind music, and it is not difficult to remind people of noble vampire nobles in medieval castles.
09. "Sexy" Song: Zheng Ci Qu: Wu Boju Singing: Hai Rong Tian Tian
What is sexy? Transparent clothing or nudity? I wander in the colorful night. Sexy women are night elves, and the most beautiful sexiness is often the blood that seeps into the wound. Sexy is the blurred eyes in alcohol, and sexy is the disturbed heart.
10. Copper ring
From the psychedelic electronic music, heavy and slightly dull percussion music entered, almost throughout the whole song. This is a song with strong sense of rhythm. Percussion is full of metal, which makes people live in a world of steel and metal. Red steel flowers and gold-red copper splash and jump in this world, coupled with psychedelic electronic music, bringing people into a metal fantasy world.
1 1. Married
The feminine theme is played by the flute, full of conversation, and accompanied by crisp and fragmentary guzheng, which makes the wonderful theme full of oriental feelings. With the addition of percussion instruments, especially cymbals, the background of music has gradually changed, as if it were marching. The bride embroidered with the golden phoenix wedding dress, the red sedan chair and the long flute sound of the parade depict the temperament and mood of the bride in the sedan chair, which is exquisite, classical and happy.
Winning record
Mohai's Best Record List 20 1 1 Top Ten Records of the Year
"Mohai" Chinese Golden Melody Award 20 12 Best Cross-border Album Nomination
"Mohai" Chinese Golden Melody Award 20 12 Best Ensemble Album Nomination