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Ye Jin Min: The Music (Part 2) · New Thinking for a New World

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  Speaker 0: The best way to understand and appreciate music, of course is to hear it.
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  Speaker 0: Now listen to three terrific pieces imagined composed and played by Yixin Mi with some help from her friends.
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  Speaker 0: enjoy one Of your pieces that I really enjoyed has To be unique in the canon of modern music vinyl road for bassoon strings And plastic bags.
• 0:33
  Speaker 0: How do you write music for
• 0:44
  Speaker 1: plastic bags?
• 0:58
  Speaker 1: So yeah, I decided to include that in my music.
• 1:07
  Speaker 1: And I was just rubbing on the plastic bags looking for many different ways to create sound.
• 1:14
  Speaker 1: basically and it's quite loud!
• 2:48
  Speaker 0: I think people will enjoy listening.
• 2:50
  Speaker 0: Give me a few words of honey.
• 2:54
  Speaker 1: That is my debut single as pop singer
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  Speaker 2: Um...and
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  Speaker 1: i wanted to integrate some classical element, which is my root.
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  Speaker 1: So there is a repeated riff.
• 3:08
  Speaker 1: so when people talk about riffs it's usually of very simple pattern that is repeating over and over again.
• 3:15
  Speaker 1: And since honey is about butterflies looking for honey in different flowers basically I wanted to be a little more elongated like flying around...so i had a cellist friend of mine recording it for me and I added filing on it, minimal percussion.
• 3:37
  Speaker 1: And yeah there goes honey!
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  Speaker 2: Then you flew
• 4:42
  Speaker 1: away for more honey,
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  Speaker 2: honey.
• 5:10
  Speaker 0: Last one to ask about is Four Moons with Coriobots.
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  Speaker 1: This was when I was at the New York Symphony just starting this interdisciplinary... Just exploring this inter-disciplinary world and One of the staff came up to me asked do want to play for a robot?
• 5:31
  Speaker 1: Can you write something for a robot?
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  Speaker 1: And I was first thinking of this like humanoid kind of robot where it's just dancing.
• 5:39
  Speaker 1: because he said, Dancing Robot and i couldn't really find.
• 5:43
  Speaker 1: But then when saw the robot actually four round discs hanging on transparent lines so that looks floating.
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  Speaker 1: and yeah when I saw this robot, i was instantly inspired to write something about moons because they looked like moons.
• 6:03
  Speaker 1: And as I said narrative is very important for me.
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  Speaker 1: so I came up with the narrative where there's a girl who just found these four moons... ...and starting to play around.
• 6:21
  Speaker 1: So what I did was having some some parts that can be repeated until the robot is ready.
• 6:30
  Speaker 1: And yeah, that's how I came up with this piece for solo violin and some singing from my side.
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  Speaker 1: so Singing Is Girl!
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  Speaker 1: and then Violin is Robot's Movement of The Moons.
• 6:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah it was a really fun experience.
• 11:02
  Speaker 0: Thank you for listening to this episode of New Thinking For A New World and I look forward to your joining our next conversation.
• 11:11
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