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The river's waves as a musical staff,
The shimmering light spots as a note,
Together, they create an eternal symphony, flowing and free.
They sing:
There is neither the past,
Nor the future,
Everything is the essence and present
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River's song
This work is based on a 1-minute video of the flowing river to create an attempt to contemplate the essence of natural change. For me, the entire creative process is a meditation and a re-description of the river's ephemeral and ever-changing mobility. This one minute is extended infinitely, magnified, I repeatedly put myself in the change and record my feeling. Gradually, I cease to ponder the reasons behind each change, shifting my focus to the change itself. I divided the original video into 60 frames, each of which represented a musical bar on the sheet. I intuitively play the piano keys to mark the corresponding notes on each image. Subsequently, I looped the video sound from that particular frame, drawing on the images to capture the psychological and auditory impressions by referencing the symbols in the musical score. Through this process, I created a visualized sheet. After, I collaborated with a musician who took the visualized score I provided and expertly transcribed it into a tangible musical score. It was unexpected to see how closely the generated melody matched the rhythm of the ambient music in the original footage.
