With his first stage performance experience, Qin Jian sat down in front of the piano and quickly found a sense of center stage.
Taking advantage of the last moment of wiping my hands, I continued to fine-tune my breathing rate.
"Relax, the second round will be no problem."
"Emotional guidance."
"open."
…
There was an unusual silence under the stage, and the only sound in the entire hall seemed to be the breathing of the boy on the stage.
Gradually, the frequency of the boy's chest rising and falling and the halo on the stage formed a certain harmony at a certain moment.
I saw him first lift his left arm and place his left hand, and then put his right hand on the keyboard.
The two hands seemed to overlap.
In the blink of an eye, the boy's hand moved.
...
The moment Qin Jian pressed the first note with his left fingertip, he closed his eyes.
Then, he pressed the belly of his right finger again.
His hands alternated slowly. At the end of each set of alternations, he would lift his right elbow, hang it in the air for a second, and then lower it.
Start the next set of alternations.
Two sounds, two timbres, two feelings.
Emitted from the same keyboard, the same phonetic range, and the same word group.
One high and one low.
It's like a conversation between two birds.
"Introduction."
The audience listened for most of the performance, and this was the first time for them to experience such an opening.
There is no magnificence, and no dazzling skills can be seen.
Even, you can't even see the music
Only a faint sense of vitality filled the entire hall.
Each ear seemed to be bathed in the morning light.
Suddenly, a harsh "dili" sound appeared.
The overlapping left and right hands of the young man on the stage suddenly pulled apart.
The left hand jumped a long distance towards the left area of the keyboard. After passing through a set of arpeggios, the ring finger stopped on a black key.
The index finger and middle finger of the boy's right hand, one long and one short, fell one after another.
this moment.
beeping buzz————
The soundboard of the grand piano made a harsh and dissonant sound.
The harmonious musical picture was suddenly broken.
It was as if the originally peaceful morning was suddenly interrupted by the sound of a car horn.
The sense of tranquility was instantly gone.
Immediately afterwards, consecutive dissonant intervals sounded one after another
This made nearly 90% of the audience in the audience frown.
"Yaoxi"
Conductor Xiao Lin, who was sitting in the second row of judges' seats, was holding his temples with both hands and his eyes were bright.
[...worship value -1]
【…-1】
【…-1】
…
Even with half-closed eyes, such information cannot be blocked.
Qin Jian cared, but there was nothing he could do to stop it.
This is the instinctive reaction of the audience. For most people, they have long been accustomed to tonal music. It is natural that they cannot accept this kind of non-tonal modern music for a while.
This situation occurred as he expected.
But it's okay.
"The introduction's statement has been expressed."
The melody has returned to a stable level, but it still cannot be described as pleasant.
'Girl in the Garden'
It's only two minutes long.
Compared to other contestants' works, two minutes is too short.
Qin Jian tried many ideas throughout the afternoon and finally chose this performance plan.
First of all, modernist piano is not an art that is separated from tradition, so the playing method must still follow the music score.
Although maybe it doesn't sound that pleasant.
Qin Jian also considered using a gentler performance in the introduction, adjusting the local sound effects of the work by controlling the touch strength and angle, so as to make the "listening" ears more accepting.
But after just a brief try, he gave up.
Even with his highly individual romantic playing technique, he was unable to arrange the atonal music score in an orderly manner.
Secondly, can this tricky playing style get points from the judges?
Qin Jian didn't know this.
Mombo's piece is truly pure primitivism from the very first note. There is no material to expand from the bar lines to the clefs, and the traditional two-hand counterpoint is abandoned.
But similarly, modernist works do not have strict phrase division and logical structure.
More like a surrealist painting.
So Qin Jian finally focused on the layout of the work.
He does not try to guess the composer's creative intention, but just wants to intuitively feel the composer's thoughts from the music score.
Liao Linjun's reminder is about innocence and curiosity, with Rodin's point of view, "There is no lack of beauty in life, but the lack of eyes to discover beauty."
Qin Jian agrees with this point, and he often makes this kind of psychological suggestion during his training.
But when he sat in the glass piano room facing the piano, he saw through the glass window the people and traffic flowing back and forth on the noisy street.
Under the bright neon lights of the city.
He gradually realized that Rodin's words a hundred years ago seemed inappropriate today.
Having seen 9012, Qin Jian has seen even more impetuous cities.
It is true that beauty will never be lacking in life, but for busy modern people, what we lack is the time to discover beauty.
"How to make the audience temporarily let go of their anxiety within two minutes of music"
This is Qin Jian's idea.
He Jing said that Mengbo's diary was always full of weird phrases, and his biggest hobby was playing checkers with his left and right hands.
This character can indeed be seen throughout his music scores.
What Qin Jian needs to do is to complete this music score.
Present.
…
The brief period of noise ends.
The boy's originally straight body on the stage bent slightly, and he started running briskly with his hands.
The melody suddenly changed and did not develop according to the listening habits of most ears.
But he returned to tranquility.
The slow drifting was in sharp contrast to the previous one.
Although there are still some auditory disharmony frequently, it already presents an alternative sense of comfort.
"free"
In atonal music, performers do not need to blindly deal with contradictory harmonic vocabulary. Just like problems encountered in life that cannot be fundamentally solved despite hard work, it will only form an obstacle.
Gradually.
The entire hall has entered a state of relaxation. There is no longer strict musical logic, and there is no need for ears and nerves to make expectations.
Here, if you wander around at will, you can hear frogs croaking in the mud after the rain, or the autumn wind blowing through the wheat fields.
It's all in the imagination.
Even take a nap.
…
Backstage, the door to break room No. 30 opened.
With the music in his ears, the boy in black dress slowly walked through the porch to the public area.
The contestants in front of the big screen unconsciously gave up their positions.
But he didn't notice that all eyes were focused on the performers on the stage.
There was a feeling in my heart that I had never felt before.
"How did he do that?"
…
Qin Jian played more and more easily, and the melody that came out of thin air under his ten fingers immediately flew away in the wind.
No need to hide it deliberately.
There are no secrets here.
It is free and smooth, with no clear outlines and parallelism of musical phrases.
Putting aside the complicated ‘bad habits’ of serious music
More and more listeners have adapted to this kind of random improvisation.
He even found his own voice in the irregular music.
However, not every pair of ears is willing to accept this feeling.
"This is totally against the music!"
At this moment, a judge from country D picked up a pen without hesitation and marked an extremely low score on the score sheet in front of him, 85.
But this does not stop the music sequence from coming to an end.
"When - drop -"
The original musical theme pops up again.
The dialogue between left and right hands with different levels of height is reproduced.
This time, Qin Jian cleverly used his hands to suspend rhythmic accents.
After the right hand played a set of extremely powerful arpeggios in a big jump, he switched to his left hand and started pressing in one position, one long and one short.
Comparing the strength of the introductory paragraph at the beginning, the feeling is exactly the opposite.
The sense of vitality reappears, just when everyone thinks that the music will continue its harsh path
Qin Jian suddenly retracted his left hand, leaving only his right hand and the right pedal.
"Perfect!"
While muttering, the moment he stepped on the pedal, he used his right index finger to gently slide over the last note in the high range.
'Ding----'
With the last high note echoing over the entire stage