Digital art on the scene of Wan Jieyi's performance. Photo by reporter Zhou Mingjia
Yunnan Netnews (reporter Zhao Gang) When the piano encounters digital media art, what kind of spark will be wiped out? I believe that in the pioneering cross-border art journey "15° - Wan Jieyi's Piano and Digital Impression" led by "post-95" pianist Wan Jieyi, the audience can find the answer. On the evening of December 16th, the piano concert of Wanjieyi National Tour in Kunming ended successfully, a cross-border journey between piano music and modern digital art, allowing the audience to feel the perfect integration of music and nature.
According to reports, the "post-95" pianist Wan Jieyi, began to learn piano at the age of 3, was admitted to the University of Music and Drama in Munich at the age of 15, and obtained a double master's degree from the School of Music of Yale University and the University of Music and Drama in Munich, and the diploma of the highest degree of performer in German music performance. Since September this year, Wan Jieyi has opened the prelude to the national tour of Poly Cinema Line, with the theme of "Four Seasons", showing the interaction between music and nature, interpreting classical music while perfectly combining visual digital images with it to bring an immersive concert.
At the scene of the performance, when Wan Jieyi played every note, all kinds of "elves" flashed on the big screen in the center of the stage, which were not only symbols created by digital media artists, but also expressions of art. For the audience, what they hear is the musical notes, but what they see is the ingenious arrangement on the big screen, the spiritual animation of the four seasons, the landscape, and the scenery. This sense of "visible" is also the biggest surprise in this concert.
"Although I studied abroad, I have a Chinese heart, and the core of the concert must be the 'Chinese soul', using music to reflect Chinese elements." Wan Jieyi said.
The audience was amazed by the cross-border integration of piano and digital media. In fact, behind the concert, the creativity of Wan Jieyi and many digital media experts was integrated, and the original cold piano and digital images were formed into a vivid organism. In this regard, the reporter specially interviewed the planner and artistic director of the concert, Professor Fan Shengxi of the School of Design and Creativity of Tongji University.
Fan Shengxi said that he wants to combine different sounds with pianos through multimedia means, so as to present a pluralistic natural scene. The concert is named 15°, which is also the embodiment of traditional Chinese culture. The 15° in the rhythm contains twenty-four notes, while in the natural twenty-four solar terms, the sun's trajectory is one solar term every 15°. Wan Jieyi carefully selected 15 songs, with the theme of natural seasons, arranged according to the years, each chapter has Chinese and Western composers' interpretations of different seasons, so that the audience can freely switch between Chinese and Western famous songs and feel the beauty of the four seasons.
As for the presentation of digital media, the artists of the creative team have poured a lot of thought into it, such as those "Chinese styles" on the big screen - ink paintings, puppet opera operation techniques, Suzhou garden landscapes, etc. These unique designs are the artists' sincerity to the audience. Even if you hear Western classical music and see the most popular digital representation on the big screen, all the elements have a Chinese flavor.