Huang Zhiqian, graduated from Xinghai ** College, majoring in computer composition and recording engineering, is a senior person in the field of multiple **forms**. At the 2021 Hollywood Media Awards, his "Shore of the Land-Thirteen State Mansions Suite" was nominated for the Instrumental Orchestral Work of the Year. **Guangzhou**.
In the 11th Guangdong Lu Xun Literary and Art Award (Art Category), the song "Sweet High Hat" composed by Liang Tianshan and composed by Huang Zhiqian was among them. In an exclusive interview with this reporter, he said that the most important thing in terms of creation is to solve the problem of language, and another focus is innovation.
According to reports, as early as 2016, Huang Zhiqian's game "One Piece Fierce Battle - Chinese Version" won awards; The documentary "Old Foshan, Xintiandi" he participated in won the first prize of the Guangdong Radio, Film and Television Awards. In addition, his song "The Voice of Guangzhou" won the first prize of the "Guangzhou International Urban Innovation Award Theme Song" solicitation activity.
The award-winning work "Sweet High Hat" has the flavor of Guangdong folk culture.
Regarding the work "Sweet High Hat", Huang Zhiqian told reporters, "'Family, country, country', you take care of your own home, in fact, it is also patriotic", he said, "Teacher Liang Tianshan and I wrote from this side, why we can have a happy life and be a good husband, or father, it is the country that gives us a good environment." ”
The second is that I discussed with Mr. Liang, everyone writes Mandarin, and we write a Cantonese one, showing the local culture of Guangdong", he said, "So there are a lot of authentic Cantonese expressions in this song, including gongs, percussion, and gaohu, all of which are Cantonese flavors." We have blended this kind of national things with symphony, which has the sunny and snowy side, the height of art, the fireworks, and the flavor of folk customs and Guangdong culture. ”
Huang Zhiqian believes that the most important thing in terms of creation is to solve the problem of language, "There are many factors that affect language, such as the environment in which people grow up, and the works that people have been exposed to, you have absorbed some nutrients from it, and blended them into your growth environment, plus the feedback obtained from practice, it forms your own unique language." ”
Another focus is on innovation.
I had just attended a creative camp of the Chinese Music Association, and their request was to be new, because there was no point in repeating the same things over and over again," Huang Zhiqian said.
In my work, you can hear a very loud percussion, like the feeling of a vegetable market, how can it suddenly appear here? It was unreasonable in terms of technique, but I just felt that I needed such a thing here, it was a feeling. It's not a very regular thing, but because it's 'needed' here, I put it in. This is the personality of artistic creation. ”
Talk about the connection between the traditional and the contemporary in "translation".
9 years ago, Huang Zhiqian began to get in touch with the creation of games**. When I was doing "The Shore of the Land", it was not smooth at first, "It's normal, a new project has no direction." At that time, I wrote six or seven editions of each article, but Party A felt that it was not that way. What kind of problem did I find out later? It's just that it's imitating all the time, and it's very uncomfortable. ”
Two years after the launch of "The Shore of the Land", the market response has been very good, and the pressure on Huang Zhiqian has become less. "I wrote two or three hundred articles according to my understanding of the Chinese style, slowly accumulating and writing, including commercials, battle scenes, map scenes, etc., long and short, fast and slow, for different solar terms, traditional musical instruments, there are also special performances. ”
The story of the Three Kingdoms is a big IP, how to combine the scene of the game with the traditional ** culture, which gives Huang Zhiqian a lot of space to play, "Writing and writing becomes a **language of mine, that is, this thing is mine as soon as I hear it, and it belongs to "The Shore of the Land" as soon as I hear it, and it becomes a very strong **IP", he said.
The first time we got the nomination from abroad, it was the suite of thirteen state capitals in "The Shore of the Land", including Yangzhou, Jizhou, Youzhou and other different regions, ** with different flavors, in short, there are elements in various places", he said, "Foreign listeners sound very fresh." Because it combines the language of modern **, but has a large number of elements of traditional Chinese **, it was nominated for best orchestral music. Later, there were a total of six nominations. ”
Huang Zhiqian said: "What I embody in these ** is a style that is both traditional and modern, and it can be said that I have done a 'translation' job. Why 'translate'? Because a foreign audience listens to the Chinese tradition, it is more of a lively mentality when listening, but he can't receive what you want to convey. So we need to translate that stuff into a language that a foreign audience can understand. He will be able to enter your ** world and feel the picture you describe and what you want to express. ”
* Cultural "going out" requires a strong carrier.
In the process of creating the game, Huang Zhiqian found a lot of foreign materials, including using some traditional European instruments such as the lute to play Chinese melodies, using Western orchestras to show Chinese scenes, and so on. He feels that these practices are effective adjuncts, "In the process of working with musicians, bands, and conductors from many countries, the performance will be awkward at first, because your scale and sense of hearing are unfamiliar to them before, and those blank things are not the ** logical things they are used to." With the deepening of cooperation, everyone has become more and more tacit. There is a Hungarian band, I think they know China best. They make about 200 recordings a year that are related to China. This is also a kind of cultural export, allowing foreign artists to understand China first, and then gradually make Chinese culture accessible and known to more people. ”
Huang Zhiqian said that many popular songs in recent years are the theme songs and original soundtracks of movies and TV series, why? One is because it has a strong carrier that allows people to receive this quickly; The second is that this carrier makes ** more graphic and helps the audience understand. Now we produce a large number of ** works a year, and if there is no good carrier, the reach rate is actually very low. If there is more international cooperation, exchanges and efficient industrial production, then everyone involved will become an effective medium.
It can be said that we are now establishing a new model and new understanding", Huang Zhiqian said, "I hope that through our efforts, more Chinese people can find opportunities for international cooperation, so that the Chinese imprint and the Chinese Chinese language and culture can become the mainstream aesthetic in the world." I believe this is very encouraging for those who are interested in China's best creation, which will be a big stage in the world. (ENDS).
**Guangzhou**.