Xiao Ke plays the piano and reads poetry on Douyin: I am a creator, not a performer A middle-aged time with the piano and a friend of poetry adds music to the poems The experience of remembering the lost youth reading has added creative confidence

A few years ago, "Because of Love" spread throughout the streets and alleys, when the music creator Xiao Ke drank tofu brain in the morning shop, the uncle sitting opposite him nibbling fritters would not associate the person in front of him with this song.

In fact, the songs created by Xiao Ke should be heard by people all over the street: "Wait for You to Love Me", "Steady And Happy", "Return", "The Most Familiar Stranger", "Want to Sing Me to You"... and the theme song of the 2008 Olympic Games, "Welcome to Beijing".

In recent years, Xiao Ke, who is nearly half a hundred years old, has begun to do musicals and create short videos on Douyin, all of which have done a good job. Recently, he became the leader of the "All Come to Read" national reading plan, using music to accompany netizens to grow up and retaining the lost youth with poetry.

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Xiao Ke wore a hurdle vest, his white hair exploded on the brain door, and his beard was not shaved. But his headphones were polished, the microphone was angled to his mouth, and the notes flowed out of his hands and quickly filled the room.

Instead of singing, he read poetry.

On Douyin, he uploaded dozens of videos of playing the piano and reading poems, ancient and modern Chinese and foreign poems, with an impromptu piano piece, which can always arouse the emotional resonance of others. Some fans left a message, "Since paying attention to Teacher Xiao Ke, I feel that Douyin has suddenly become literary." ”

Xiao Ke played the piano and read poetry, reproducing the ancient literati Yaxing, the piano was slow, the sound was magnetic, and in just one or two minutes, it brought people into the situation. Like the complete songs he composed, each short video reveals a great aesthetic and texture, not cold at all.

He read Zhao Ye's "Xie Lingyun", drunkenly lying in the white clouds, the ancient People of Qi, the Southern Mountains and the North Mountains, all of which were my way. Xianjun rose up to save the south, leaving a place of smoke and mist, the world did not meet, and the miles flowed. The landscape and fate are facing each other, and the heart has a piece of fortress-shaped skeleton how to settle down.

Most of the time, Xiao Ke does not appear on camera, and many people do not know that behind every piano song and poem is a stout middle-aged man with black-rimmed glasses, which has nothing to do with greasiness.

Xiao Ke experienced a car accident in his early 30s and passed by the god of death. After recovering, he dragged his shoulders and arms could not bear the body, at that time the smog was not too mellow Beijing sunbathing, surrounded by some retired old men, deeply experienced the helplessness and pain after not being needed.

On the penultimate day of 2015, Xiao Ke's father died, and after taking care of the aftermath, he went to get a fitness card and made up his mind to get his body. The mental exercise was not put down, and he remained young in the piano and poetry.

Poetry sobered him up and made him want to create. "After all, I have written songs for so many years, and I know that writing songs is also the secret of creation, which is sincerity. You sincerely create, sincerely express what you want to say in your heart, it will definitely move people. ”

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Xiao Ke grew up in an alley in front of the White Pagoda Temple, and he once wrote about that place, "There is a jujube tree in the front yard, and on a windy day you can hear the bells coming from the White Pagoda."

When Gao Xiaosong first came to Xiao Ke's house to pick up songs, as soon as he entered the door, he felt that he had come to the right place. In addition to a bed for sleeping, the 12-square-meter cottage has a room full of equipment, computers, music sources, pianos, and tape recorders in the few spaces left.

At that time, Gao Xiaosong, Old Wolf, and Ye Bei soaked in Xiao Ke's house almost every day, and Na Ying, Tian Zhen, and Park Shu also went there to record songs.

Xiao Ke is almost a genius creator, Gao Xiaosong once described the pop music scene at that time - for a while I opened the radio to listen to the charts, and found that four of the ten songs on the chart were composed by Mr. Ke, and three of the remaining six songs were arranged by Mr. Ke, two songs were played by Mr. Ke, and the last song Mr. Ke did nothing and sang a harmony.

Today' Xiao Ke is reading poems in Douyin, and Song Wei's "She is not good at saying goodbye" has surged into his heart in the past years. The poem says, "Before the guest leaves, the child has already felt it, and his silence has a kind of stiffness, before it is noise, and he tries to show all the vivid tricks, all the innocent recklessness, and he has learned to express himself." ”

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Xiao Ke wrote the ending song of the mainland version of the TV series "Condor Heroes", which took only ten minutes. Because Jin Yong's works accompanied Xiao Ke throughout his adolescence, in his own words, he was "almost able to recite Jin Yong's books backwards like a stream". "I don't have to watch TV dramas or books, Xiaolongnü and Yang Guo are all too familiar, I have long wanted to do something about it, but I have never had the chance." Since I took the initiative to find the door this time, it really wrote out what I wanted to say to it in an instant. ”

"When these stories are in your heart, you will naturally have really expressed desires and emotions. Whether you write a line or a story, he will be alive and warm. Blind weaving is cold, and it can be heard that it is astringent. It is also this reading experience that adds confidence to his creation.

Last year, Xiao Ke released a new album "Fifty-year-old Carnival", commemorating people to middle age, the sound is like yesterday, and the melody is still pure. Regarding his wife's question about whether she envied the big star, his answer was more affirmative, "Of course, I enjoy it on the stage, and when I exchange my performance for the applause of others, I will feel particularly satisfied." But at the same time as self-satisfaction, it will greatly reduce my quiet mind. So every time I want to write a song or a new play, I stop the performance and be quiet for a week or two. This is also one of the most important reasons why I did not become a singer in the first place. ”

The country's top creator said, "The path I chose was to be a creator, not a performer." In all quiet moments, turn on his vibrato, the piano song sounds, and a magnetic voice follows: "Is it not youth without secreting dopamine, or secreting the drunkenness of middle age, there is no stranger in the world, just as every drop of water has never left the original glacier." ”