1990: Starting from Baojia Street

Chapter 64 The Memory of the Forbidden City (First update 3.3k)

This time Zhou Yan didn't come in half way, but was giving lectures on the stage from the beginning.

Li Bingyang had to deal with visa matters today, so he asked Jia Guoping to teach for him, and Jia Guoping turned to Zhou Yan.

In this way, Zhou Yan took over the class through layers of outsourcing, and now Zhou Yan is already a teaching assistant at Composition 88.

After speaking on the stage for a while, Zhou Yan suddenly caught a glimpse of a figure at the door. When he turned around, he saw that it was Sun Qin standing at the door of the classroom.

Sun Qin and Zhou Yan looked at each other, smiled, and raised their hands to greet Zhou Yan silently.

Zhou Yan nodded and finished the knowledge point he was talking about first. Then he said to the students, You guys need to digest what I just said. I'll go out for a while.

After saying that, he walked out of the classroom.

Director Sun, why are you here?

Sun Qin rubbed his hands and smiled sheepishly, Am I disturbing your class?

No, I'm just about to take a break. Zhou Yan looked at his watch again, Is there anything urgent for you? If there's nothing urgent, just wait here for a while. There's still seven or eight minutes until the break. Let's meet again during the break. chat.

Sun Qin smiled and shook his head, It's not an urgent matter, I can wait for you.

Why don't you go inside and wait? Zhou Yan asked.

Sun Qin looked inside the classroom. He had never taken a composition major and was quite curious, Is it convenient?

Zhou Yan smiled and said, If there is any inconvenience, our Yangyin class is open to anyone.

That would be disrespectful.

Seeing Zhou Yan come back and bring a big brother in, the students were a little curious and guessed who this big brother was.

Sun Qin sat in the back row and listened to the class as honestly as the other students. However, in the professional classes of the composition department, even if Zhou Yan explained it in simple and profound terms, he could not understand it.

You can hear the polyphony, harmony, and words, but you can't understand them when they are put together.

After listening in a daze for seven or eight minutes, it was finally the break. Zhou Yan took Sun Qin aside while the students were resting.

Director Sun, why did you come here today? Zhou Yan got straight to the point.

Sun Qin knew that Zhou Yan was pressed for time, so he did not make any detours. He took out a tape from his pocket and said, I asked for this from Director Wang. It contains the song Kite that you composed for Reply from Heaven.

Zhou Yan didn't expect that Sun Qin actually ran to Wang Junzheng to ask for the song. In fact, after meeting Sun Qin that time, Zhou Yan never thought about their promotional video again.

He looked at the tape and smiled, After listening to this piece, Director Sun, what advice can you give me?

Hearing this, Sun Qin waved his hands repeatedly, No, no, I can only worship your level as a coach, Zhou. How can I dare to give you advice? That's it, I was indeed conquered by this piece of music, and I was also impressed by it. Pay more attention to the soundtrack of our promotional video. When I came here this time, I specifically wanted to ask Director Zhou if he could give us some guidance on the soundtrack of our promotional video.

Zhou Yan pondered for a moment and said, Actually, my new work this semester is for the Forbidden City.

Students in the Composition Department of Yangyin University are required to submit a new work every semester, and at the end of the semester, the class will organize a concert of new works during the semester, and students will need to perform their own works on stage.

Although Zhou Yan now works like a teaching assistant every day, his status is that of an ordinary composition student in the 1988 grade, so new works for the semester are also required.

As he said, the work he is submitting this time is related to the Forbidden City. It is Memory of the Forbidden City which he borrowed from the well-known new age band SENS.

There are many soundtracks in SENS's Forbidden City Trilogy, but the most famous one is probably Memory of the Forbidden City, which is also a typical song that is more popular than the film.

Before deciding to use Memory of the Forbidden City as his new semester work, Zhou Yan was a little hesitant. This piece is certainly good, but it belongs to the new century music and is neither classical nor avant-garde.

The semester works of the Composition Department are mainly to show what students have learned. Therefore, when students create semester works, they will pay more attention to the tonality of the work and classical techniques and rules.

To put it bluntly, it is to let students display their arsenal.

Memory of the Forbidden City obviously does not fall into the category of this type of work. It belongs to a new style between electronic music and classical music.

But in the end, Zhou Yan decided to use Memory of the Forbidden City. He felt that there was no need to limit himself to his professional skills. He should jump out and deliver works that resonate with people.

Moreover, his own skill level no longer needs to be reflected in a semester work. It is better to express something other than techniques.

In addition, he also wanted to get in touch with and learn more about electronic music through the production of this song.

Memory of the Forbidden City uses a lot of electronic music technology, which Zhou Yan doesn't know much about.

When Sun Qin heard that Zhou Yan's semester project was related to the Forbidden City, he was surprised and said, Is it true?

Zhou Yan nodded, Well, that's why I heard you were going to shoot a promotional video that day, so I asked a few more questions. However, the Forbidden City doesn't have much screen time in your promotional video.

Sun Qin understood. Zhou Yan actually wanted to score their promotional video last time, but he heard that there was too little time related to the Forbidden City in the promotional video, so he didn't like it.

He hurriedly said, Actually, the proportion of space can be adjusted. If necessary, we can consider adding more content about the Forbidden City.

Zhou Yan shook his head, Director Sun, it's too difficult. Your entire film is only three to five minutes long, but my piece is only four minutes long.

Sun Qin was about to ask if he could cut out a little bit of the song and put it into the promotional video, when Zhou Yan said, And this song is inconvenient to dismantle, because it is a complete narrative in itself. If it is dismantled, the narrative will be incomplete. The effect will also be greatly reduced.”

This sentence directly blocked what Sun Qin originally wanted to say.

In this way, Sun Qin is in trouble. Logically speaking, the music must be based on the photos, but the problem is that Zhou Yan has not said that he will do it for them. He came to Zhou Yan himself, and he cannot force others to cut the music. Well, that's a bit unreasonable.

If you can't split the music, you can only extend the time. If it's to extend it to tens of seconds or even a minute or two, Sun Qin can still make the decision, but to extend the content of the Forbidden City to four minutes...

To do this, there are only two possibilities, either to extend the entire film several times, or to simply change the theme from a Yenching propaganda film to a Forbidden City propaganda film.

Can Team Leader Sun agree? This topic selection was finalized by Team Leader Sun himself, and the above process has been completed. Now it is very troublesome to suddenly change the topic and have to attend the meeting.

However, Sun Qin would not stupidly say no to Zhou Yan. He smiled and said, Four minutes is no problem. Our film can be lengthened as appropriate. This promotional video is only tentatively scheduled to be three to five minutes. It will be increased later. Ten minutes is normal.

In order to increase the persuasiveness of his words, Sun Qin gave Zhou Yan another example, Last month we produced a program related to people's livelihood. The original duration was only seven minutes. Later, because there were a lot of materials and topics, the program was They decided to expand it into a half-hour special program.

Zhou Yan was not sure whether what Sun Qin said was true or false, but it made no difference to him whether it was true or false. He had already written the song Memory of the Forbidden City.

If Yanjing TV Station can put all the songs in, then Zhou Yan will let them use it. If they can't put it in, they won't use it. He has no intention of accommodating the TV station.

So what are your plans now, Director Sun? Zhou Yan asked.

Sun Qin thought for a while and asked, Director Zhou, can I listen to your music first?

The music... Zhou Yan looked around the classroom, then nodded and said, That's okay. School will be over after the next class. I'll give you a demonstration then.

The song Memory of the Forbidden City uses many instruments, including synthesizers, and it is impossible to perform it completely live.

And even if there are enough musical instruments, it’s not enough. The musical instruments still need to be found to be played by someone.

However, during this time he was teaching orchestration to his junior brothers and sisters, so he brought many musical instruments over, including violins and flutes.

If you want a piano, that's fine. There are two or three pianos in the classroom.

So Zhou Yan can choose an instrument and give Sun Qin a solo.

Zhou Yan said he wanted to play, which was exactly what Sun Qin wanted. Sun Qin said with a smile, Then I'll wait until you finish class.

The two chatted for a few more words, and when class time came, Zhou Yan walked up to the podium, while Sun Qin continued to the back row.

After one class was over, Sun Qin stood up impatiently and wanted to find Zhou Yan, but before he could reach Zhou Yan, Zhou Yan was surrounded by several students.

Senior Brother Zhou Yan, can you help me take a look at my semester works?

Senior brother, I still need a bamboo flute to perform in my semester project. Can you help me?

Senior brother, senior brother, tell us more about orchestration.

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Sun Qin looked at Zhou Yan, who was moving among the students, with a confused look on his face. No wonder Yang Yin's level was high, and the learning atmosphere in their school was so good.

When he was in school, he was caught by the teacher every day.

Zhou Yan pressed his hand in the crowd, Don't be anxious, Teacher Sun and I still have something to do. We'll talk about it after it's over, or you can go back first and we'll talk about it tomorrow.

Teacher Sun? Who is Teacher Sun?

Some students realized it and turned back to look at Sun Qin, and other students followed suit.

Being stared at by the students, Sun Qin raised his hand in embarrassment, Hello, classmates.

After saying that, Sun Qin walked up to Zhou Yan and whispered, Director Zhou, how about we change places...

He couldn't say anything else because he noticed that a girl looked at him as if she wanted to eat him.

Sun Qin didn't care where he listened to the music. He mainly thought about Zhou Yan.

But Zhou Yan waved his hand and said with a smile, No, just stay here. During this period, other students will also be practicing their works in the classroom. I haven't practiced before, and I just happen to be practicing today.

Xu Lang was the first to understand. He opened his eyes and said, Senior Brother Zhou Yan, do you want to play a piece of music?

Zhou Yan smiled and nodded, Yes, my new work for the semester.

Wow.

“I can now listen to Senior Brother Zhou Yan’s new work.”

Although they didn't understand why Zhou Yan wanted to perform new works in front of Teacher Sun, they were very excited to hear Zhou Yan's new works.

In fact, since last month, students have been practicing their own songs in the classroom one after another. Some students will also practice and write while writing in the classroom.

But they have never seen Zhou Yan practice his music, and they have never heard him mention it.

The students are very curious, what is Zhou Yan's semester work like?