Reef Weave
for solo piano · 2020 · also as music video
为钢琴独奏而作 · 2020 · 另有音乐录像版本
Growing like a reef, woven like a shawl: an ordered score reveals its hidden threads through the piano’s resonance.
如珊瑚礁生长，如织物交织：有序的乐谱在钢琴的共鸣中，显露出背后隐藏的丝线。
| Commission 委约 | Visiting Artist Series: Beyond Borders, Yong Siew Toh Conservatory; music video commissioned by the National Arts Council, Singapore (Digital Presentation Grant), during the COVID-19 lockdown 杨秀桃音乐学院访问艺术家系列《Beyond Borders》；音乐录像由新加坡国家艺术理事会（数字呈现资助）于新冠疫情封锁期间委约 |
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| Listen 聆听 | ▶ Foo Mei Yi, 2020 (video) ▶ Music video with Churen Li (video) ▶ Foo Mei Yi，2020（视频） ▶ Churen Li 音乐录像（视频） |
乐谱的一页：四行谱表标示音区与空间位置；双手分配可自由决定。
Programme note 节目介绍
Reef Weave explores the relationship between a composed order and the physical and acoustic processes through which that order becomes sound.
《Reef Weave》探讨一种作曲所建立的秩序，与这秩序化为声音时所经历的物理与声学过程之间的关系。
The title brings together two images. A coral reef develops through the accumulation and interaction of local processes into a larger, continually changing formation. The reverse side of a Kashmir shawl reveals something different: behind its ordered visible surface lies a complex network of crossing threads, detours and connections necessary to produce it.
标题结合了两个意象。珊瑚礁由局部过程的累积与相互作用，发展成更大、不断变化的形态。克什米尔披肩的背面则揭示另一种景象：在它井然有序的正面之后，是一张由交错的丝线、迂回与连接构成的复杂网络——正是这些，才织出了正面。
克什米尔披肩的背面：井然正面背后交错的丝线。摄影：何仲实。
The score presents an apparently regular organisation: 3/4 metre, continuous sixteenth notes, recurring 4+4+2 segmentations and canonic rotations of pitch patterns across the piano. The pianist internalises and attempts to maintain this organisation, while its realisation must negotiate the physical expanse of the instrument — register, distance, hand movement, dynamics and changing densities of activity.
乐谱呈现一种看似规整的组织：3/4 拍、连续的十六分音符、反复出现的 4+4+2 分段，以及音型在钢琴各音区之间的卡农式轮转。钢琴家把这种组织内化并努力维持，而在实现它的过程中，却必须与乐器的物理幅度周旋——音区、距离、手的移动、力度，以及活动密度的变化。
The resulting time is neither mechanically regular nor freely irregular. Physical resistance stretches and compresses the underlying organisation in an intensified form of rubato. As the work develops, these actions accumulate within the resonance of the piano, so that the performer responds increasingly not only to the notation but also to the sounding condition produced by what has already occurred. Instrument, performer and acoustic space together shape the unfolding of the music.
由此产生的时间，既非机械地规整，也非随意地不规整。物理上的阻力，以一种强化的弹性速度，拉伸、压缩着底层的组织。随着作品发展，这些动作在钢琴的共鸣中不断累积，使演奏者越来越多地不仅回应乐谱，也回应已发生之事所产生的声音状态。乐器、演奏者与声学空间，共同塑造着音乐的展开。
The original 4+4+2 organisation may recede from conscious attention while remaining as internalised understanding, against which new segmentations become perceptible. In this sense, the sounding music resembles the reverse of the weave. Its crossings, displacements and irregularities are not departures from an ideal realisation of the score, but expose relationships that become apparent only through performing it. Composition proposes an order; performance activates, transforms and extends it. Reef Weave exists in the tension between the two.
原本的 4+4+2 组织可能从意识中退去，却仍作为内化的理解留存，新的分段便在其映衬下变得可以察觉。在这个意义上，发出声响的音乐就像织物的背面。它的交错、错位与不规则，并不是偏离乐谱的理想实现，而是揭示出只有在演奏中才会显现的关系。作曲提出一种秩序；演奏则激活、转化并延展它。《Reef Weave》便存在于两者之间的张力之中。
Its score later became the trigger for Frissons V, where it sets shredded recordings of Frissons IV in motion across two keyboards.
它的乐谱后来成为 《Frissons V》 的触发器：由它驱动被切碎的《Frissons IV》录音，在两台键盘上流动。
Performances 演出
18 February 2020 — Foo Mei Yi, piano, Visiting Artist Series: Beyond Borders, Yong Siew Toh Conservatory Orchestra Hall, Singapore. ▶ Watch
2020年2月18日——Foo Mei Yi（钢琴），访问艺术家系列《Beyond Borders》，新加坡杨秀桃音乐学院乐团厅。▶ 观看
Second edition, music video art — filmed at Pavane Recording Studio, 23 September 2020. Churen Li, piano; Gao Yang, sound engineer; Aaron Andrew Ang (Hei Studio), director of filmography; Chan Qi Yan, camera assistant; Timothy S. H. Tan, producer and audiovisual post-production. ▶ Watch
第二版：音乐录像艺术——2020年9月23日摄于 Pavane 录音室。Churen Li（钢琴）；Gao Yang（录音师）；Aaron Andrew Ang（Hei Studio，摄影导演）；Chan Qi Yan（摄影助理）；Timothy S. H. Tan（制作人及影音后期）。▶ 观看
For scores, performance materials and other enquiries:
chungshih@chungshih.info
乐谱、演出资料及其他查询：
chungshih@chungshih.info