＂Let’s meet! Radio： What music did you leave in your favorite city？
In day order, a world trade center where Beijingers come and go, colorful light and shadow pictures flow overhead. When the twilight closes and the street lights are on, the curtain of the glass room in the center of the pedestrian street is opened, revealing a live broadcast space that can be heard and watched: "Let’s meet! Radio.
Well-known musicians broadcast live performances and chats in the studio, and passers-by stop at any time to clearly hear and see everything they share. Such a glass house radio station in the market has become a "city music box", opening everyone’s memories — — What kind of music did you leave in your favorite city?
Be a guest, let’s meet! Radio, the post-90 s singer Gao Jialang will remember his earliest memory of listening to city radio. When he was five or six years old, he sat in his father’s car and listened to the radio music. The signal was not very good, and his voice was intermittent, but now he recalls it with special feeling. Gao Jialang can still remember that Tom Chang, Zhao Chuan and Little Tiger were playing on the radio.
One side of the soil and water has deeply nurtured one side of music.
Gao Jialang, who was born in Baicheng, Jilin Province, thinks that the northeast people are generous, and the music style of this land is high and the genre is "thirst-quenching". And other cities he walked through, such as Chengdu, gathered a lot of minority music; Shanghai music is very international; Beijing, on the other hand, has pop music whose style covers almost all of China.
Singer Bird’s hometown is Chuzhou, Anhui Province. He thinks that the local climate is distinct in four seasons, and "Chu and Chu are surrounded by mountains", and he has an overall introverted, simple and honest and safe temperament. And his favorite regional music is from Inner Mongolia. "It’s a little far from us, but the music there is excellent, and the singers are completely beyond my imagination."
"Going to every city to feel its music is the most intuitive way to let you know about urban culture." Silence Wang, a musician known as the "OST Devil", was born in Shenyang, Liaoning. From classical music in primary school, he felt that Shenyang, his hometown, was a city where classical music developed well. "I went to Shenyang Conservatory of Music, and all my teachers and classmates gave me a lot of edification about classical music. So although I am doing pop music now, many traditional things are still in my mind, providing me with a lot of creative support. "
Silence Wang said that good music can cross regions, but often the starting point of each music creator is "private and unique", and the growing environment will affect their inspiration and methods of creation — — "Nutrients must come from your hometown and from the place where you grew up."
The China mainland rock band "Tour Group" has been established for more than 10 years. Among the four members, except one Beijinger, the other three are all born and raised in Liuzhou, Guangxi. "Liuzhou is a place where it often rains, and suddenly it will clear up, and the city will come straight to the point, so the nutrients we get in this environment are concentrated in our previous albums. For example, many songs in the first album" Laifu Clay "were written in Liuzhou, and you will hear a lot from it ‘ Water-based ’ 。”
Tour groups and bands from the south to the north feel that they have added a lot of "fire" since they came to the north, and combined with the "water" of their original homeland, music now presents a state of harmony between fire and water.
The tour group band described the subtle influence of the region on music creation: "The weather in Beijing is particularly straightforward. For example, when the summer wind blows, the sweat can be stopped, unlike in the south, where the sweat sticks to the body. This straightforward feeling will be reflected in our music. "
In the view of members of tour groups and bands, a person’s body is actually a sensor. By walking in different regions, they can receive a lot of rich information and then integrate them into their own music creation.
After people leave their hometown, music becomes a journey that can be extended indefinitely.
Bird said, "What is a trip? I think it’s when you go to another place and feel the strange environment, and you will meet a different self, so the music here is very important. "
When walking around, many musicians will have the impulse to create for another city. For example, Gao Jialang, a younger brother in Northeast China, specifically mentioned that the city of Shenzhen can trigger his creative inspiration. "I am a northerner, and suddenly I went to a city with extremely high humidity and extremely hot. The color of the whole air and the tone of the city are different from where I live now, and the feeling in Shenzhen is rather hazy."
During his stay in "foggy" Shenzhen, Gao Jialang wrote an unpublished song, which he is looking forward to one day.
And every time Silence Wang goes to a city, he will pay close attention to the characteristic music there. "Like in Beijing, I went to listen to Peking Opera specially, because I think Peking Opera must be listened to in Beijing. I have also written many songs related to China’s traditional culture. Combining with Kunqu Opera and Peking Opera, China’s traditional culture can be combined with many new music styles. I have been committed to doing such things myself. "
Kong Yichan, the lead singer of the tour group band, said that when they travel, they are very sensitive to local music elements, including musical instruments and records, especially the "relaxing music" in Southeast Asia, and the moment when modern civilization collides with traditional culture, the experience is particularly wonderful, because they can find similarities with their band’s creation.
In addition to collecting the most direct music materials, all kinds of details of local customs can be "collected", even a piece of clothing and a look can be turned into a piece of original melody. Kong Yichan said that sometimes the photos he took when he traveled to a place, when he went home and looked at them again, would give rise to many unprecedented ideas, and that was the inspiration.
Tour groups and bands will combine the languages or temperament of different regions into one song, and their latest album was recorded in Phuket, Thailand. Wei Wei, a keyboard player, said: "We are originally a group of people who are full of gods and gods. Recording in the tropics feels particularly strong and unconstrained. People in that place are particularly interesting in talking, eating and singing, which is very similar to our aesthetics and what we want to express. "
And many unexplored lands are also the source of creation. The band members of the tour group said that Iceland is the place they want to see most at present. "Because that place is a fairyland on earth, there are few people. We want to face nature and feel that our hearts are very small."
"Live seriously, experience seriously, feel all the happiness and sadness that life brings you, and integrate these things into your creation, and your music will be more popular." Silence Wang hopes that this "visual" music station in downtown Beijing will become a brand-new urban cultural landmark. "If I were a tourist, I would like to come here very much, and I can go shopping and watch radio programs, which is very worthwhile." (China Youth Daily China Youth Network reporter Shen Jiequn)
