Mu Qin Mother - Music

There Are Two Artists Named Chen Yi 1. Chen Yi Chinese 陈怡 Is A Chinese Composer 2. Chen Yi Was Allegedly A Commune Founded In 1978 By About 20 People From London And The Surrounding Area. 1. Chen Yi 陈怡 B. Guangzhou Guangdong China 4 April 1953 A Distinguished Chinese Composer Of East-West Fusion Classical Music And Also A Violinist Became The First Chinese Woman To Receive A Master Of Arts M.A. In Music Composition From The Central Conservatory Of Music In Beijing. Chen Grew Up In Guangzhou China Into A Talented Family. Her Parents Were Doctors And Musicians Her Mother Played The Piano And Her Father The Violin. Her Older Sister Was A Child Prodigy And Even Today Her Older Sister And Younger Brother Work As Professional Musicians In China. Chen Began Studying Piano At Age Three Studying Western Composers Such As Bach And Mozart. Once The Cultural Revolution Began In 1966 Western Influences Were Severely Shunned And The Arts Were Attacked. For Ten Years Education Came To A Halt And People Were Relocated To Work In Large Communes In Countryside. Her Father And Older Sister Were The First To Be Sent Away But She Managed To Hide In Her Hometown A While Longer And Continued To Practice Music With Some Impediments She Was Forced To Stuff A Blanket Inside Her Piano In Order To Dampen The Sound And Play Her Violin With A Mute. At Age 15 She Could Hide No More. Party Cadres Searched Her House Took Her Possessions And Dispersed The Rest Of Her Family To Different Locations To Perform Compulsory Farm Work. During The Cultural Revolution Chen Used Her Time Spent Laboring In The Countryside To Learn And Appreciate Chinese Folk Culture. She Would Later In Life Use This Influence To Find Her Own Voice And Style. At Age 17 She Returned To Guangzhou And Began Working As Concertmaster In The Orchestra Of The Beijing Opera Troupe In Guangzhou. Chen Lived For Many Years In New York City And Studied Composition With Chou Wen-Chung And Mario Davidovsky At Columbia University Earning A DMA With Distinction. Her Husband Is The Composer Zhou Long. As Of 2006 Both Chen And Zhou Are Professors Of Composition At The University Of Missouri–Kansas City Conservatory Of Music And Dance. Chen's Orchestral Compositions Combine Chinese Folk And Western Instruments Inventing A New Fusion Of Eastern And Western Classical Music. She Teaches Chinese Folk Fingerings For Western Woodwinds And Strings. Alongside Her Many Orchestral Works She Contributed To Choral And Chamber Music Repertoires And Composed Works For Traditional Chinese Instruments. For The Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremonies Director Chen Kaige Selected Her Composition Olympic Fire Now Rhyme Of Fire.
The Theodore Presser Company Publishes Her Works. 2. The Chen Yi Commune Was Founded In 1978 By About 20 People From London. The Aim Of The Commune Was To Create A Closed Subsystem A Kind Of Sub-Society And To Narrow Down Its Contact To The Outside World Only On Very Few Specific Actions. The Sound Of Chen Yi Is Rough & Brutal. Electronic Music Sound-Collages That Remind Of Throbbing Gristle Or Early SPK As Well As Electro-Pop Tracks In The Vein Of Early Cabaret Voltaire Chris & Cosey Severed Heads. The Chen Yi Commune Never Was Interested In Producing Records Some Of The Members Even Refused Any Form Of Release Whatsoever. In 1981 One Member Released A Tape Edition Called “Hanging". The Title Referred To The First 3 English Witches Who Were Hanged In Chelmsford Where The Commune House Was Located. This Cassette Was Sent To Various Record Companies. John Peel Saw A Potential In Chen Yi Which Led To A Recording Contract In 1982/83 With CBS. About 7 Tracks Were Produced For The First Chen Yi LP. More Couldn't Be Finalised Because CBS Suddenly Pulled Out Of The Contract. This Left Unfinished Tapes Of An LP. These Recordings Were Finally Released In 2006 By The 90% Wasser Label. Http //www.90-Prozent-Wasser.De/catalogue.Html#wvinyl012 read less