Wenzhou Net News Do you know? In fact, some young troupe players born in the 1990s also want to form the most dazzling folk band and move from behind the scenes to the stage.
They said: “If the wind cannot blow us, we will not wait for the wind and boldly chase the wind.”
In order to pursue the most dazzling folk music style and boldly explore how to “break” and “establish”, Yu Hani and Chen Yingyi, born in the 1990s, and performers from the Wenzhou Ou Opera Art Research Institute chose to fight side by side.
Established the group “Ou Xiaomei”
Interviewed after the game and revealed the truth
Yu Hani told reporters that this year is the year she tries her best to “chase the trend”. Because she participated in the 2023 Wenzhou Youth Opera Performers Competition and won the silver medal, she said in an interview: “Through this competition, I hope to form a small-scale, very ‘popular’ folk band with the award-winning contestants. , performing on the streets in Wenzhou creates an atmosphere for spreading folk music.”
On the day the competition ended, she started flipping through her phone’s address book, persistently looking for partners with whom she could form a band. In the process of “searching and searching”, I suddenly found that the most suitable one was right next to me.
On October 15, Chen Yingyi, who played the guzheng at the Wenzhou Ou Opera Art Research Institute with Yu Hani, came to talk to her about how to use a fashionable way to allow more people to see young performers who have dreams of opera music. Spend your youth? Unexpectedly, the more they chatted, the more speculative they became. They high-fived each other and said, “Today, we will form a group and name it Ou Xiaomei!”
Shoot 3 videos
Let folk music get better and better the more you listen to it
The group “Ou Xiaomei” has just been established. On October 20, they were invited to perform on the literary and artistic stage in Wuma Street, Lucheng District. Although “Ou Xiaomei” is a newly formed group, they have a tacit understanding because of their many years of experience in running together in the band.
In the form of “folk music art + urban culture”, they performed on the stage of rich literature and art, such as “Chinese Music in the Golden Age”, “Colorful Clouds Chasing the Moon”, “Jasmine”, “Hemerocallis”, “South of the Clouds” and “China in the Lights”. They all played the familiar tunes of traditional + fashion in a frantic manner. “This group seems to be similar to the ‘Folk music is also crazy’ video we saw on Douyin. It is very popular and dazzling. The more I listen to it, the more I get addicted!” An audience member who watched their stage debut at the time left this comment One comment.
After stepping onto the stage of literary and artistic beauty, “Little Sister Ou” has more whimsical ideas. She went to Yongjia Cangpo Village, an Internet celebrity’s pastoral nostalgia memory check-in point, and played a folk music to tell stories related to Wenzhou. The story of autumn harvest and autumn sun. When we arrived at Cangpo Village, the simple and lovely “Little Sister Ou” told everyone that they had a unique way of enjoying the autumn weather. They passed pumpkins on carts, hung corn on racks, and played dulcimer and guzheng on the altar, playing the “harvest song.” “Music”, which attracted many people to applaud, and some tourists wearing cheongsam even walked like models while listening to folk music. “Is the video “Little Sister Ou calling you to enjoy the autumn sun” popular? Has it gained a lot of fans?” People often ask “Little Sister Ou” after returning from filming the video in Cangpo Village.
“We didn’t think that making one or two videos would make it popular. We thought that as the famous conductor Zheng Xiaoying said, if you think something is right, just push it and take the trouble to push it, only then will there be results. At present, we plan to make a series of “Little Sister Ou” calling you, such as “Little Sister Ou” calling you to eat glutinous rice balls, “Little Sister Ou” calling you to celebrate the New Year, etc. Of course, we are more willing to cooperate with more folk music lovers Let’s interact together to complete the semi-propositional composition of ‘Little Sister Ou’ calling you.” Yu Hani and Chen Yingyi looked at each other with bright smiles.
Looking forward to the change of “Little Sister Ou”
From 2 people to a group of people
The “Ou Xiaomei” group has already shot three videos in the two months since its establishment. From the initial filming of “South of the Clouds” in the urban cultural park, to the filming of “China Under the Lights” at the National Center for the Performing Arts in Beijing, to the filming in Yongjia County “Little Sister Ou calls you to enjoy the autumn sun” has moved from simple “addition” to “fusion”.
Fusion is addition. Since “Ou Xiaomei” consciously wanted to shoot more folk music videos, she would often ask people in various groups what folk music tracks they like. They grew up in academic circles, mainly performing opera repertoire, and have always been aiming for “high-end and sophisticated”. Now, if they want to perform works that are popular with the public, they need to find a convergence between professional aesthetics and popular aesthetics.
It is quite difficult to find a compatibility point. If you want to play the harmonious sound of two musical instruments, the dulcimer and the guzheng, you usually have to spend time selecting repertoire, arranging the music, and writing the copy. In fact, you need to find a master to complete these.
“Recently, a word always pops up in my mind, called ‘traditional re-creation’. I am thinking about how to use my painting skills to create an ancient style visual output system exclusive to Ou Xiaomei, and create two Ou with great personality and recognition. The image of a little girl. I also firmly believe that in the future, the little sisters of Ou will become a group of people instead of two people.” Chen Yingyi showed the reporter the portraits of ancient opera characters she drew.
“Practice its sound” and “appropriately”, “Ou Xiaomei” gives national music a more youthful expression, and creates an interesting “retro style” with dulcimer and guzheng, which is a bold combination of “breaking” and “establishing” explore. This expression allows us to discover the light of youthful vitality, which starts from our original intention, comes from love, and goes all out to walk towards the light.
Source: Wenzhou Evening News
Original title: The post-90s generation formed the “Ou Xiaomei” folk band to perform a new form of “folk music art + urban culture”
Reporter Xiao Yu
Picture provided by interviewee
This article is reproduced from:Wenzhou News Network 66wz.com
