Alright I give up writing in chinese. I guess wordpress don’t really support chinese characters. That’s kinda sad. Cheer Chen..What can i say. Simply wonderful.

The moment she appeared on stage and started singing jiu fen de ka fei dian(??????), the hall was silenced, entranced in her angelic voice and great song. And this is the most charming thing about cheer, that there’s no need for fanciful staging, dancers, just a guitar and herself and she would be able to keep everyone’s focus on her.

Cheer’s always been very special to me. Now I know not many guys like her but not that I care. I first heard her songs many years ago and i didn’t know what that song was ( hai shi hui ji mo ????? ) but I felt happy, though it wasn’t exactly a happy song. I guess that’s because it’s a really nice song and really different, haven’t been able to stop since then. The one thing that’s most unique about her though, I must say is her voice. She has this pure, crystal clear voice that seems to penetrate the core of our soul. It’s not diva like or with any fanciful singing techniques but it’s what really attracts me. On the other hand, I really dislike singers with that diva like voice or with fanciful singing techniques. For me, it’s always about the feel. Like how i always prefer piano concertos to symphonic orchestras.

It’s a pity though, that Cheer didn’t sing some of my favourite songs like mei yi tian dou shi xin de lian xi (??????????) and ling gan (??) . I wonder why not many people like ??????????, too raw? Or just that not many people have actually heard of it. If anyone likes it. Tell me.

People should stop clapping for some of the songs, especially when they have a very bad sense of rhythm. That aside, the concert was great overall and things really got crazy when Cheer came down with her special car. Too bad she didn’t come to our side for long.

I’ve never heard of encores exceeding 3 times, maybe i haven’t been to enough concerts but 5 times is really something wouldn’t you agree. That happened for us. 5 times! wow. She seemed really happy too, and I was kinda touched seeing that. One thing funny was that i saw professor alex from nus there, he’s caucasian. I guess it’s for her wife, which was really nice.

At one point , Cheer told us that a piece of summer is not restricted to a literal level of meaning but to her , summer is special and her favourite season . And that every summer is a part of a special memory to her . I really look forward to her coming again, though i suspect it’s going to be a long long time. Well, to end off I hope everyone of you guys find a wonderful piece of memory in one of the summers in your life.

I think i’ve been rather lucky the past year, lots of things are happening for me. Which is great. School alone is great fun, though an equal amount of hard work has to be put in, results of hardwork are always sweet . Sometimes the end result is not always what you would expect it to be but i guess the process counts more.

Anyway , other than the current major project i’m on, the music technology lecturer has approached us for some collaboration with them to create some soundscape sculptures with interactive elements. I signed up immediately lol. I might not know what exactly i’m getting myself into but i feel that it is going to be a great experience nonetheless.

Ka5 also approached pav and i today, asking if we are interested to do internships for theatreworks in preparation fot the next impetus vista lab2. I must admit that i’m very honoured even though it’s only internship but I really like what they are doing there so i wouldn’t mind even if i don’t get paid. Of course, thats a joke. Don’t take it seriously if u ever see that ka5. Over and out. I think i should blog more often.

Notes were his words
Ivories were his tools
Music was his poetry

Chopin the poet of the piano
My greatest champion of classical music
His music never fails to entrance me

So What’s all this about? I just read the biography of Chopin and i’m quite moved by this truly artistic pianist of his time. All along i felt it in his music and after reading this i feel even more so. This realtime graphic is dedicated to him, inspired by his raindrop prelude. If you have a mic connected to your com, play a song and watch it react to the song. If you play the piano , play the raindrop prelude along with it . You need java though.

http://www.ctrlsave.com/applet/index.html

Yes that time of the year is coming again. Dear Mr Loo has shot the arrow at me very kindly again to do his posters.

How much of our history do we know? I used to think that ya..i’m not the leading authority in it but i know quite abit but after watching impetus, I realised its all textbook history. Yes, what they want us to know. “IMPETUS’s first presentation explores how insignificant events in our history are being recorded, forgotten and fabricated. These occurrences often escape people’s memories, yet are impetuses to our invention of a vibrant global city.”

While i understood some of the things they were saying, many of the younger audiences had this lost face and naturally the foreigners. Impetus was presented with live acting, dance , audio and visuals and what i thought was real interesting is that all the technologies used were all analog old school stuff. Kafai was kind enough to show me the equipments he used and it was really cool. He had these old gaming consoles he was using for his visuals and circuit bending.

And as usual, whenever it comes to sensitive singapore history. Mda and Nac would do that thing they do, censoring bits n pieces of the show or simply announcing that they had nothing to do with this show. Yi-sheng had to place a pen in his mouth while doing one of the part to “filter” out what he was saying. It worked really well though and it was interesting that i could still get what he’s saying and trying to express. Yi sheng is one funny guy man . He was saying how he wanted to make the next setting in the ming dynasty lol. Not so possible though, I thought. Great show guys.