MusicAcoustica ‘06: Opening

by lawrence

CCOM Entrance
Lawrence Li under the billboard at the entrance of Central Conservatory of Music (CCOM), Beijing.

main hall
The foyer of the building where many of the concerts and panel discussions will take place.

Ken Fields

Kenneth Fields, one of the masterminds behind the conference.

Doing interpretation for the the opening speeches of these events in China can be either pain or bliss, depending on your perspective. When the same phrases repeat for the 30th time, you know you are doing machine’s job. It’s good that I somehow found a way to enjoy the mind-boggling challenge of switching between the two contexts and mindsets.

main hall
Prof. Zhang Xiaofu, executive president of MusicAcoustica 2006, Director of CEMC, President of EMAC. No, it’s not that I’m reading a transcript in target language given to me in advance!

Mark Battier
Mark Battier, co-founder of Electroacoustic Music Studies Network.

Opening speakers

The guests and speakers on the open ceremony.

There’s not much to be blogged about the open ceremony, after which we were treated with a mini-workshop-like-concert at the entrance hall by JIN Ping 金平 - a professor and Director of the Theory and Composition Program at the State University of New York at New Paltz, and SUN Xiaohua 孙晓华, currently a PhD candidate in Design and Computation in the Architecture Department at MIT. The two projected video from the ceiling and Sun was playing with a Max/MSP patch presumably written by her, while Jin was briefing about the technique used in the piece.

Jin Ping & Sun Xiaohua
The video was projected from the ceiling, on the table were two Powerbooks (or Macbook Pro) running patches and a Korg keyboard.

Jin Ping & Sun Xiaohua

Max patch of Jin Ping
This is for all you reverse engineering freaks out there. :)

Billboard in Campus
Billboards are everywhere in the campus.

Group photo
Group photo of delegates, known as Quan Jia Fu in Chinese, is of typical Chinese characteristic.

All photos by Dajuin Yao.

I’ve created a photoset of MusicAcoustica ‘06 on Flickr:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/lawrencelry/sets/72157594340959153/

And the Flickr tag for the photos is “musicacoustica06“. Would be great if we all use this tag to group the photos together.

For swag (Stuff We All Get), we have a pen, a notebook, a comprehensive brochure (more on this later), tickets of various concerts, four CDs of works by young Chinese composers, and an introductory leaflet of the Chinese version of Curtis Roads‘ Computer Music Tutorial, which is going to be published next year and is one of the topics of the conference.




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  1. i didn’t realize it was you until zhang xiaofu said “thanks lawrence lee for such excellent interpretation.” and i got frantic. you look so young!

    Comment by nineinchhair — October 24, 2006 #

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