w:Images in Sound (He Xuntian)

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| composer = Xuntian He

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Images in Sound ( 声音图案 ) is a piece for conventional and unconventional instruments, composed by He Xuntian in 1997–2003.{{cite news|title=Conjecture Images in Sound

|url=http://www.cnki.com.cn/Article/CJFDTOTAL-RMYY200710008.htm

|newspaper= People’s Music |access-date=2007-10-12}}

Gift

Primordial music for all species.


Humanity's first gift of sound to all species.{{cite news|title=He Xuntian’s Images in Sound: Music Is Not Only Belong to Human

|url= http://www.cnki.com.cn/Article/CJFDTOTAL-BYYY200802017.htm|newspaper=Northern Music |date=February 2008}}{{cite news|title=Images in Sound|url= https://de.schott-music.com/shop/fuse-pattern-images-in-sound-2-1.html|newspaper= Schott Music International Germany|date=May 2014}}

Summary

The work has seven movements:

  1. MiLi Pattern
  2. FuSe Pattern{{cite news|title=Music Analysis of He Xuntian’s Images in Sound

|url=http://www.cnki.com.cn/Article/CJFDTOTAL-SHYB200401005.htm|newspaper= Art of Music |date=January 2004}}

  1. MiYi Pattern
  2. FuXiang Pattern
  3. MiGuo Pattern
  4. FuYi Pattern
  5. MiFu Pattern

Inspiration

Images in Sound was inspired from Xuntian He's ideology:

Five Nons: Non-Western, non-Eastern, non-academic, non-folk, and non-non.

Makes no distinction between ancient and modern;

No distinction between north, south, east and west;

No distinction between above and below, left and right;

No distinction between primary and secondary positions;

No distinction between beginning and end.

References

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