Charon – For Guzheng, violin, samples, and live electronics

Yixuan Zhao

Music Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract

Charon is a celestial body in the solar system. In a tide-locked state, it and Pluto gradually becoming synchronous rotation from different orbits and rotation rates due to the influence of tidal forces over a period of time. This work combines different sounds of Chinese instrument, Western instrument and Samples. Their process from struggle to integration is a metaphor that Charon is gradually affected by tidal forces. Technology in this work has created interaction among acoustic instruments, samples and sound effects. The connection among them develops the work. I believe that the tension and interaction are the fascination of the combination of sounds.

Citation

Yixuan Zhao. 2020. Charon – For Guzheng, violin, samples, and live electronics. Music Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6350646 [PDF]

BibTeX Entry

@inproceedings{nime20-music-Zhao,
 abstract = {Charon is a celestial body in the solar system. In a tide-locked state, it and Pluto gradually becoming synchronous rotation from different orbits and rotation rates due to the influence of tidal forces over a period of time. This work combines different sounds of Chinese instrument, Western instrument and Samples. Their process from struggle to integration is a metaphor that Charon is gradually affected by tidal forces. Technology in this work has created interaction among acoustic instruments, samples and sound effects. The connection among them develops the work. I believe that the tension and interaction are the fascination of the combination of sounds.},
 address = {Birmingham, UK},
 author = {Zhao, Yixuan},
 booktitle = {Music Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.5281/zenodo.6350646},
 editor = {Wright, Joe and Feng, Jian},
 month = {July},
 pages = {16},
 publisher = {Royal Birmingham Conservatoire},
 title = {Charon – For Guzheng, violin, samples, and live electronics},
 url = {http://www.nime.org/proceedings/2020/nime2020_music07.pdf},
 year = {2020}
}