Work
Exorcist 驱魔者
electroacoustic
About
This piece is to record the situation that how Chinese people live during the ‘LockDown’, it captured different miniatures of the city I live in(Lanzhou,China). Governmental agents were trying to protect people and advise them to wear face masks, homeless street musicians were singing to express the hope of life, monks were chanting for releasing the souls for the dead. All of these recordings are valuable and worth to keep because it validated how people overcame the ‘devil’ at the end.
Difficulty note
This work is suitable for high school music groups
Dedication note
for Lei Zhao(赵雷) and the Hanzhong Contemporary Ensemble
Contents note
There are 10 tracks in total which include 6 recordings, the form of the piece can be described as ABA. Section A: Bar1-Bar 50.(0:00-1:47) Section B: Bar 51-80(1:48-2:35). section’: Bar 52-end(2:36-4:17) The section A start with the recording “Government Prompt”, described a peaceful image that the monk was chanting for mourning the dead who passed away during the Covid-19, I Intercepted the prelude of the guitar piece, use it’s four-chord progressions as accompaniment music. Section B is a contrasting paragraph, three developed recordings are used to create an evil image which the female and male devils were singing unkindly. The street musician piece is one octave lowered to present the dark sides of the devils. Section A’ stands that the monks are trying to suppress devils by chanting, it is similar to section A.