The first time I listened to Lei Guangxia's song seemed to be "Forgiveness", it was particularly amazing, although the singing skills really did not even count as amateur singers, but it was this kind of humming, somehow very moving. Today's recommended "Dark Light" is very representative of her characteristics, the regular scale is fascinating, the listening is fascinating, and with simple and natural lyrics, it forms her unique poetic and healing characteristics. This is also what I felt when I read The Cissy article, Lei Guangxia is a kind of companionship and healing for many years, which is probably the warmest tacit understanding between the creator and the listener.
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Ma Shifang said, "Some singers as long as she opens her mouth to sing, you will feel: Oh, instantly healed by her, no matter what she sings, everything in the world is calm." Lei Guangxia is such a singer, and her voice has such magic. ”
And when I hear Lei Guangxia's voice, I will also think of a picture frame by frame like a movie.
"But I have forgiven you, like the ocean forgiving the fish..." Listening to her gentle voice in "Forgiveness", I remembered the people and things in the past, and suddenly remembered that Mr. Mu Xin wrote: "I don't know what to forgive, but I sincerely feel that everything in the world can be forgiven." ”
"Whenever there is a storm, I always think of the mountains and forests of my hometown, leisurely and fresh..." Listening to her narration in "Hometown", I think of my grandfather who left, even if I listen to it many years later, I will still cry. The sound of insects at the end of the song made me miss everything in my hometown, and also brought me countless courage to face life.
I listened to Lei Guangxia for many years, waking up in the early morning to listen to her music to wash and make breakfast; put on headphones in the travel carriage and listen to her music and look at the scenery outside the window; listen to her music during pregnancy and make fetal music; listen to her music on the seashore and quietly enjoy the gentleness of the sea breeze; listen to her music in countless nights, read, write and paint; listen to her music in a foreign country and miss the mountains and rivers of her hometown...
The reason I like Lei Guangxia is entirely because she has the sharpest interpretation of the sounds of all things in nature. She subtly recorded the collected natural sounds into the song and continued to write one sound movie after another, and she sang softly like a musical poet, singing into my heart.
If you were to ask me who my favorite Taiwanese musician is, I would answer: Lei Guangxia. Her music has stories, memories, and souls.
Lei Guangxia's 2003 compilation "Gone"
I remember very clearly, the first time I listened to Lei Guangxia was when I was 14 years old, and then I started writing blogging, and I kept Lei Guangxia's music in the blog's BGM list, from "Passing" to "The Secret Language of Time", from "My 80s" to "Dark LightVersion2".
It was also that year that I met Junjun, a very important friend in this life, we participated in the school's art festival together, we did stage drama planning together, and we hosted the graduation party together. After graduation, I never asked her where she was, but whenever I received a postcard from her from afar, I would imagine what she looked like when she delivered the letter in that place, what kind of weather it was, what kind of mood she was in, and I knew that she would come back and would come back to talk to me about the stories of these years.
For me, Lei Guangxia's music carries the youth and growth of me and her.
At the seaside late at night at the East China Sea Music Festival, we avoided the boiling hot crowds, sat on the beach and chatted, looked up to see that the moon had a halo, the waves were coming, a beer can fell on the beach, a little boy passed by, kicked the beer can, and the sound of the waves coincided with his laughter. I clicked on "Version2" in my phone player to her... "The sea is close to me, and the air is wet; the darkness is gentle, staring at me; the stars are lit, and the memories are floating; once existed, now disappeared..."
Lei Guangxia's 2006 album Dark Light
We climbed over the mountains, walked all over the rugged mountain roads of the island, and sat on the rocks facing the sea when we were tired and listened to the sound of the waves lapping at the rocks... I recorded the sound of the waves, the sound of the wind, and the bits and pieces of our journey at different moments. When I woke up to the sound of chickens chirping and radio at the Letter Hostel on Dongji Island, I walked to the terrace to look at the mountains and the sea, letting the sea breeze blow my hair wildly, and my heart was particularly rich and peaceful.
"The May sunshine and the May wind are the most dashing footnotes of the young story." Whenever I hum "Passing Away", it is like returning to the summer when I can't go back to the green years but are full of good memories.
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Lei Guangxia is a music producer, she is a singer, philharmonic radio DJ, from 1995, Lei Guangxia released his debut music album "I am Lei Guangxia", to 2015, the release of "Don't want to forget the sound", for twenty years.
Lei Guangxia is also a film scorer, in 1996, her works "Old Summer" and "The Sea of the Town" were adopted in Hou Xiaoxian's film "South Country, Goodbye South Country", and was nominated for the "Best Lyricist" at the 7th Taiwan Golden Melody Awards; in 1998, she composed the theme song of the same name for the film "Sea Flower" directed by Hou Xiaoxian and was nominated for the "Best Lyricist" at the 9th Taiwan Golden Melody Awards; in 2001, she served as next to the 20th Music Scene of the Subway for the Jimmy Music Album; in 2010, She won the "Best Film Original Song" at the 47th Taiwan Film Golden Horse Awards for her song "The 36th Story", and in 2011, she won the "Best Album Producer in the Performance Category" at the 22nd Taiwan Golden Melody Awards pop awards for the soundtrack album "Doll Cafe".
The theme song of the movie "The 36th Story", produced by Hou Xiaoxian, was also composed by Lei Guangxia
She has won many awards on her musical path, but none of this can sum up the spirituality in her music, and what fascinates me even more is her own mystery and the purity of music.
Lei Guangxia rarely appears in front of the public media, and his life is extremely low-key. Even attending the Golden Horse Awards, I was dressed in a simple way to receive the award, although it was a great contrast with the gorgeous attendance of most artists, but the Lei Guangxia in my heart should be such a light and elegant look. She wears black hair with shawls and black-rimmed glasses all year round, and on weekdays she likes to listen to classical music, and from the very beginning of making music, she has tried to convey visual images through hearing... From the lyrics, songs, singing, and soundtrack, they all carry Lei Guangxia's unique poetic temperament.
She began to like to write songs from elementary school to junior high school, and the real thing that she began to understand sound and felt that music is more than just melody was when she was in college. At that time, she was exposed to the course of "visual communication" and reflected on what constituted the smallest element of a picture, and began to photograph the purest light, color, and shape, rather than a general definition of the mixture of unknowns.
When she was in college, she held a creative performance with two seniors, and the performance was all about singing her own songs, starting from the purest "voice" to complete the "communication" she had learned.
After that, Lei Guangxia was admitted to the Institute of Jiaotong University and began to study sound semiotics. "I decided to be a producer in this society, like a farmer, to grow things and let things grow out for others," she said. ”
Lei Guangxia collects sounds, recreates them, lets them grow, and gives them to the world again
After graduation, she continued to choose to make music, and her biggest job came from her father, who made a documentary by a writer, and she spent a full year doing the soundtrack. (Note: Lei Guangxia's father, Lei Jun, is a famous writer, painter and documentary filmmaker in Taiwan) In 1988, Lei Guangxia won the "Taiwan Golden Bell Award" for his documentary soundtrack work "The Writer's Figure".
Later she did Old Summer, and she began to represent a movie with a song. She imagined the playground at school, the memory of a summer. It also has a plot, some shots melt in and then disappear, and then fade out, vista, so the first experiment she did at that time was "Old Summer". So "Old Summer" and "The Sea of the Town" were discovered by musician Lin Qiang and used as soundtracks in the film "Southern Kingdom, Goodbye Southern Country" directed by Hou Xiaoxian.
Hou Xiaoxian's "Southern Kingdom, Goodbye Southern Country", a movie about small people on the edge of Tainan
The most profound influence on Lei Guangxia was Wim Wenders' Lisbon Story (1994). The protagonist of the story is a sound recordist who often takes a microphone with him in Lisbon. At that time, Lei Guangxia also liked to make sound collages, and also bought some recording equipment, began to learn the protagonists in it, listened everywhere, and went to Lisbon many years later, and began to really be a producer of this society.
Later, Lei Guangxia did a program on the Philharmonic Radio, taking Baha's "Spirit Song" with the sound effect of the whale she found singing, and then adding the sound of the sea waves, directly showing the story in a short minute and a half. Every bit of the previous one affects what she would put in later when she was creating. These magical powers will come to her aid when she needs it.
The relationship between her and her voice happens so delicately. She said, "The sound is a wing that tries to take me flying, and it's also like a mechanical power device." When you are pulled by gravity in reality, sound seems to be a way to take me far away." She also said, "What really moves you is this flesh and blood body." "Why not?"
And I gradually found that after slowly understanding the meaning of sound for Lei Guangxia, I could better understand and understand the mysterious sound symbols in Lei Guangxia's music.
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In 2015, nine years after a long absence, Lei Guangxia released her seventh album, The Sound Of Not Wanting to Forget, which she said was an attempt she had to collect sounds from around the world, but she gradually discovered that it was impossible.
I think, just like there have been people in this world who want to conquer the whole world, and there have been people who have vowed to love someone for a lifetime... Many vows in the end, you will find that you are not as caught off guard by this ever-changing world, and what we can have and cherish is actually the present. Lei Guangxia is the same, she uses the sound of the collection combined with the notes to spread out the emotional context, into the production of this album, recording the sounds she does not want to forget, are the time she cherishes.
In 2016, Lei Guangxia gave a guest speech on "One Seat", where she shared with everyone the sounds she collected from all over the world and told the story behind the sounds. At the scene, she was dressed in a full set of black costumes, quiet and mysterious and calm appearance, but when she spoke, she revealed the shyness of a girl. Most people love photography when they travel, but she loves recording. That was the first time I heard her talk about the entire music process of "Morning Trip", when the sound of the environment in the city was amplified, she became the screenwriter of this sound movie, telling everyone about the wonder of the sound dimension in this world.
I saw a musician's sensitivity to sound and his innate talent and passion for music. For her, incorporating sound into her own music is like the existence of everything in the universe has its own meaning. She said, "What allows us to move on is the things you like and the people around you, the friends who support you." If one day the trip starts early in the morning, we have a full day together. ”
Lei Guangxia told the story of her travels and voices at a table
I have always felt that Lei Guangxia's music is like a breeze, like running water, like air, like breathing... She said that music symbolizes freedom, and she has been going far away, not knowing how far she can go, but she feels that the farther away the better, and the more different from others, the better. I don't know where music will take her, but I believe that as long as she is free to walk in this world, she can always bring me different auditory enjoyment and emotion.
And because I like Lei Guangxia, I have unconsciously integrated my voice into my own life, and began to record my daughter's growing cries, laughter, purrs, and various bits and pieces. Rather than the motivation and purpose of creation, I just want to be a recorder of life, and I also feel the fit of sound and life.
I sometimes wonder, if Lei Guangxia becomes a mother one day, what kind of moving music will she create? Her heart, which flows like a clear spring and surges like the sea, will always resonate and move me with the passage of time.
Lei Guangxia, who records the sound of all things, she is the playwright of her own sound movie, she has been playing the game of "borrowing the environment to practice the heart" with the sound, the music is her script, and the words are her expression.
Thank you, Lei Guangxia.
Thank you for the voice movie that has guarded me from a teenage girl to a wife and mother, thank you for using music to bring me the inspiration of poetic life, telling me: compared to the camera film can freeze memories, the sound is more like a genie living in memories, giving life a beautiful soul. And I, when confronted with the changing times and the impermanence of life, learned to be silent, to breathe, to listen.