Still Life —for piano and live electronics

Yixuan Zhao

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract

This work shows the alternation and opposition of two musical emotions. The musical gestures in traditional music score are amplified and deepened by live electronics. Through the performer's expression of the score and the blessing of different electronic effects, the contrast between the various parts of the work is more vivid. An interactive system that can be controlled by the performer himself has been established for the performer, who can use traditional piano performance techniques to play the piano and live electronics simultaneously. For the performer, the subtle changes in electronic effects are a brand-new experience. He can achieve the fusion effect of traditional piano and technology by learning and controlling the characteristic data during the performance. The work is divided into 10 sections (ABCDEFGHIJ), containing 10 interactive scenarios. The on-site microphone detects the piano performer’s 5 performance characteristic parameters (attack peak, loudness, pitch, spectrum centroid, partials) in real time, and then maps them to the internal parameters 4 modules (4 electronic effects). The interaction scenarios include the use of a single module and the use of multiple modules.

Citation

Yixuan Zhao. 2021. Still Life —for piano and live electronics. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.21428/92fbeb44.99631411 [PDF]

BibTeX Entry

@inproceedings{nime2021_music_7,
 abstract = {This work shows the alternation and opposition of two musical emotions. The musical gestures in traditional music score are amplified and deepened by live electronics. Through the performer's expression of the score and the blessing of different electronic effects, the contrast between the various parts of the work is more vivid. An interactive system that can be controlled by the performer himself has been established for the performer, who can use traditional piano performance techniques to play the piano and live electronics simultaneously. For the performer, the subtle changes in electronic effects are a brand-new experience. He can achieve the fusion effect of traditional piano and technology by learning and controlling the characteristic data during the performance. The work is divided into 10 sections (ABCDEFGHIJ), containing 10 interactive scenarios. The on-site microphone detects the piano performer’s 5 performance characteristic parameters (attack peak, loudness, pitch, spectrum centroid, partials) in real time, and then maps them to the internal parameters 4 modules (4 electronic effects). The interaction scenarios include the use of a single module and the use of multiple modules.},
 address = {Shanghai, China},
 articleno = {7},
 author = {Yixuan Zhao},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.21428/92fbeb44.99631411},
 editor = {Eric Parren and Wei Chen},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 month = {June},
 title = {Still Life —for piano and live electronics},
 track = {Music},
 url = {https://doi.org/10.21428/92fbeb44.99631411},
 year = {2021}
}