On July 7th, one of the most popular mobile games for young people nowadays, "Glory of the King", the theme music of Yunmiao "Red Flame Of Tassel", was officially launched, and pipa player Zhao Cong combined Traditional Chinese culture with games, integrating national music into game music, which attracted the attention of many players.
"The Wisp of Red Flame" was co-created by Zhao Cong, principal pipa player of the Central Chinese Orchestra, and Liu Dong, a young composer, and performed by Zhao Cong himself. And this creative mode is also a brand new attempt. The composer Teacher Liu Dong built the musical framework, and the Brilliant Solo Passage was left blank and handed over to Teacher Zhao Cong to compose and play. For Zhao Cong, this is both a creation and a supplement and improvement of the character design. The character image of Yunyi fits very well with the musical vocabulary of the pipa, from the playful plucking of the pipa at the beginning of the song to the almost extreme colorful collision between the fingertips and the strings in the climactic paragraph, which portrays the game scene and the character image vividly.
"Red Flame" received rave reviews after the official launch of the digital platform. For this cooperation with "Glory of the King", Zhao Cong believes: "You can't take the pure tradition, you must integrate the present, plus the special timbre, and the technique of the showmanship, it is a very complete work." The success of this cooperation is another successful cross-border attempt by Zhao Cong, once again expanding the possibilities of folk music, she said, "So that more young people can hear, feel and like folk music and China's excellent traditional culture, which is a very meaningful thing." ”
Zhao Cong has always regarded the promotion and inheritance of national music as his responsibility, in addition to constantly making new attempts in creation and interpretation, he also actively promotes Chinese music to the world. Earlier this year, in the "Meet with Friends on the Silk Road" project of the music festival "Gathering with Friends on the Silk Road" sponsored by the Abu Dhabi Department of Culture and Tourism, Zhao Cong performed the famous pipa song "Yi Dance" in China, and performed a local Abu Dhabi Ud qin work "Light of the Soul" with the pipa. As one of the most internationally influential Chinese national musicians, on June 14 this year, the international version of the Ancient Chinese Music Song "Kunpeng Zhi" was officially launched at home and abroad. The song was written, composed, and played by Zhao Cong, and was her first attempt to produce bilingual songs in both Chinese and English. In the international edition of Kunpeng Zhi, the song is sung by soprano singer mary-jess Leaverland (Chinese Li Meijie), the singer of the theme song of the British hit film and television drama "Downton Abbey". Ms. Zhao Cong's bold innovation of combining traditional Chinese folk soundtracks with Western singing methods has skillfully integrated instrumental music and vocal music, ethnic and Western music, electric vocal music and symphony, tradition and popularity, etc., to create a "new national tide music" with Unique Chinese cultural heritage and Western romanticism. In addition, in order to further promote the sanxingdui culture, Zhao Cong also specially created the pipa work "Samsung Divine Bird" and recorded the MV in the Sanxingdui Museum, which will be launched worldwide. On 16 July, the opening ceremony of the 44th Session of the World Heritage Committee (hereinafter referred to as the World Heritage Conference), hosted by UNESCO and hosted by the host country, the People's Republic of China, was successfully held, and pipa player Zhao Cong was invited to participate in "National Style and Elegant Rhyme". Zhao Cong plays artistic national music through exquisite pipa playing skills and conveys Chinese sounds.
Text/Beijing Youth Daily reporter Tian Wanting