Chapter 856: Opening Performance
"What, do you want to create on the spot?" Fang Kun, the chief director of the show, looked at Xiao Yao in surprise.
"Yes!" Xiao Yao smiled, "But I used to have some half-finished materials, and I just took advantage of this time to perfect them, not completely from scratch." ”
Hearing that Xiao Yao was going to process on the basis of semi-finished products, and remembering Xiao Yao's demonic name, Fang Kun was relieved and asked Xiao Yao: "Do you need to prepare a room for your creation, do you need any musical instruments or equipment?"
"No, I just need these devices now. Xiao Yao said, "If no one else wants to use this stage for a while, I'll just get it here, which can just save me some time running in with the live sound equipment, and I don't need to arrange another room." ”
"Okay, let's get it here. Fang Kun said, "You are the only one who needs to rehearse today." No one else will need to use the stage and its equipment until the official recording begins in the evening. ”
"Okay," Xiao Yao nodded, "Then please ask the director to find someone to arrange for the Yamato musicians to rest, the next song should not have time to rehearse, I plan to complete it alone, I don't need Yamato musicians, and I don't need rehearsals." ”
"It's okay, it's just a show in the evening, I don't need to rest, I'll stay here with you!" Sun Tingting said.
"We don't need to take a break, we want to see how you create live!" Ai and a few other musicians also said.
The conversation between Xiao Yao and director Fang Kun was also heard by the musicians and Ai next to him.
"Whatever you want!" Xiao Yao nodded indifferently, put back on the side of the headphones, and busied himself on the MIDI keyboard, synthesizer, computer, and electronic music equipment in front of him.
The three resident guests saw that Xiao Yao and the others did not leave the venue after the rehearsal, Xiao Yao began to get busy on the equipment again, and the music with a different melody from the song in the rehearsal sounded, so they curiously walked to the side of Fang Kun, the chief director of the show, and asked, "Director, what is Xiao Yao doing? Isn't the rehearsal over?"
"After Xiao Yao finished the rehearsal, he felt that it might not be enough to perform one song at the beginning, so he was going to make another song for backup!" Fang Kun said with a smile.
"Do it on the spot?" all three of them looked at Fang Kun in surprise.
He said that he used the semi-finished materials of the past and perfected them into finished products here. Fang Kun said, "Anyway, his rehearsal has been completed, and now there is still time, he can do the best, and it doesn't matter if he can't do it." ”
Even if he had a lot of confidence in Xiao Yao, Fang Kun didn't want to help Xiao Yao talk too much in front of the three resident guests.
Xiao Yao wants to make a backup song, and the three resident guests naturally can't pull Xiao Yao to discuss what music. However, it is also rare to see Xiao Yao's demonic on-site creation, and the three resident guests did not leave, but found a seat and sat down.
Xiao Yao's second song is ready, and it's almost dinner time. After dinner, I took a short break, and it was almost time to prepare for the official recording of the show. In this way, Xiao Yao naturally has no time to have any music discussions with the three resident guests. In this regard, Xiao Yao can only express regret to the three teachers, and he will talk about it next time he has the opportunity.
At half past seven in the evening, all the personnel were in place, and the official recording of the program began.
At the beginning of the show, Xiao Yao was not asked to perform the opening performance directly, but a mysterious person in the program group first introduced the rules of the first round of the breakout competition to the contestants in the waiting area.
This is a program that selects electronic music musicians, and the previous episodes of the program are all breakout competitions. The specific rules of the breakout competition are that all electronic music producers participating in the show first choose the star manager team they want to join, and then take turns to perform in front of the manager of their choice, and the manager will judge.
In view of such rules, in the previous episodes of the breakout competition, there were a total of three areas where the program was filmed, namely the observation room of the host, the waiting area of the players, and the main stage for the performance. While the participating producers performed alone in front of their chosen hosts, the other two celebrity producers sat in the observation room and watched, while the other producers waited in the contestants' waiting area, both of them watching the performances on the main stage through the screen, not on the stage.
The place where Xiao Yao performed his opening performance was naturally on the main stage. When the mysterious person of the program group introduced the rules of the first round of the breakout competition to the contestants, Xiao Yao took the musicians to the stage to prepare.
Of the three shooting areas, only the main stage has an audience. Seeing Xiao Yao and others on the stage, the audience on the main stage immediately let out a burst of cheers.
"Xiao Yao is out!Hey, the audience is so excited!" Looking at the reaction of the audience in the main stage area on the screen, Wei Dazhang said with a smile.
"But Xiao Yao looks like this, can the audience recognize him?" Shang said as he looked at Xiao Yao on the screen.
Xiao Yao, who walked on the performance stage at this time, was dressed in a black hooded sweatshirt with an elastic mask.
"Other audiences don't know each other, but as long as it's an electronic music fan, there shouldn't be anyone who doesn't know it, right?" Xin Yi said, "Xiao Yao's electronic music works are basically the stage name of YS, and they are all dressed like this in the MV and when performing live!"
"Speaking of which," Wei Dazhang said with a smile, "several of the waiting players we saw just now are also wearing hoods and masks. Do you think those people are learning from him, no, they are influenced by him?"
"Wouldn't it?" Shang hesitated, "Although Xiao Yao is very popular, he is not very old after all. Most of those players are older than him, right? How could they be learning from him? Oh no, influenced by him?"
"Although Xiao Yao is young, he is not only popular, but also popular early!" Wei Dazhang said, "The first time he appeared in this outfit was five years ago. I'm sure there must be a lot of those players who have been doing electronic music for more than five years, but could their masks and hats start five years ago?"
"Five years ago!" Shang sighed, "When you say that, I think you shouldn't just be the opening guest, but you should sit with us!"
"Do you think the program team has never been invited? But they didn't have a schedule, they didn't agree to come, they only agreed to be an opening guest. Wei Dazhang smiled, "If he comes, maybe there won't be me!"
"No, no," Xin Yi said with a smile, "If he agrees, we will have four managers of this show." ”
The sound between the three areas cannot be directly transmitted to each other, the observation room and the waiting area can only see and hear the situation of the other two areas through the screen, the main stage is for performance, there is no need to look at the situation of the other two areas, and the large screen is only used to show the close-up of the main stage, and the picture of the other two places is not played. So, even if the rules were being explained to the contestants on the waiting area, the cheers of the audience on the main stage and the chats of the managers in the observation room would not affect what was going on there.
However, after explaining the rules in the waiting area, the main stage will be cut. When the explanation of the rules was almost over, the staff who received the notice on the main stage quickly gestured to the audience and asked them to be quiet.
"The stage of "Instant Electronic Music" is officially opened!" With the last sentence of the mysterious man, the big screens in the three places switched to the picture of the main stage synchronously.
After a burst of blue laser light flashes, the main camera lens on this side of the main stage slowly moves from top to bottom, gradually revealing the entire stage. In the middle of the stage, behind a transparent DJ console, a man in a black hoodie gradually appeared on the big screen. As the camera slowly zoomed in, when the players in the waiting area saw the close-up of the DJ wearing a hat and masking face, there was also a huge cheer and scream in the waiting area.
“ys!ys!” Several players clenched their fists excitedly and shouted.
As electronic music producers, many people have weird-sounding stage names to show their character, and these people also prefer to call Xiao Yao the stage name he uses when releasing electronic music works.
"Huh?" After the cheers, many of the contestants also showed confused expressions.
The sound in the waiting area was not the sound of a piano as they had expected, but a sound similar to a horn.
"Isn't it Fad?" Just as puzzled as the contestants in the waiting area, there were also the audience on this side of the main stage. Although they have an option to see the entire main stage directly, the perspective is different from the other two places, but the sound is the same.
“herestand open arms,thishome whereare,ever strongthe world thatmade~”
After a long horn sound, Ai, dressed in a long black hooded sweatshirt, walked out of the passage at the back of the stage while holding a microphone and singing.
"Wow~ New song!" The audience on the main stage and the contestants in the waiting area were excited.
"Who is the singer this time?The voice feels a little familiar, is it Gong Chen again?" Because Ai was wearing a hood and lowering her head slightly, her appearance was not shown on the big screen for the first time, and everyone couldn't help but guess in their hearts again.
Just when everyone was thinking about whether the big screen could give the female singer a close-up shot, so that everyone could see the female singer's face clearly, a close-up of a violinist next to the stage suddenly appeared on the big screen.
"I'm going!Sun Tingting?" The people on the main stage and in the waiting area became excited again, "Won't Xiao Yao bring his wife here?"
In fact, the violinist who appears in the close-up is also a black hooded sweatshirt, dressed in a hat and a black mask. In addition to judging from the hands, eyes, and hair that this is a female violinist, you can't actually see her face clearly. It's just that because everyone preconceived that the DJ in the middle of the stage was Xiao Yao, they thought that the female violinist who was taken care of by the close-up was Sun Tingting.
The big screen took turns to give some close-ups of the other musicians. Everyone noticed that except for the violinist, the other musicians were all dressed in black hooded sweatshirts. With the exception of the singer who was going to sing without a mask, the musicians all wore hats in sweatshirts and masks over their faces. Seeing this, some people began to wonder if the first female violinist who appeared was Sun Tingting.
“i still hear youthe breeze,see your shadowsthe trees,holding on, memories never change~”
The tempo of the first part of the song is slower. By the time Ai sang the second stanza, the picture on the big screen had already turned around from the musicians' faces and returned to Ai's faces. This time, not only the audience in the front row, which was closer to the stage, saw Ai's appearance clearly, but also close-ups of Ai's face appeared on the big screens in three places.
"Great!"
The audience on the main stage cheered happily.
"Ai~"
The players in the waiting area were a little inconsistent when they saw Ai's reactions. Some of the contestants cheered happily, while others secretly pouted in disappointment. It seems that these very character electronic music producers have a lot of different impressions and opinions about Ai, and some people don't quite approve of this kind of girl group idol.
"Why is Ai?" One of the producers even whispered to the people next to him with a disgruntled face.
"Ai is not bad, right?" said the man next to him with a smile, "I heard that Xiao Yao's choice of singers is up to him, and I don't believe that Haiyan gave it to him." ”
"Yes," another contestant next to him also covered his mouth and whispered, "You see, at least he didn't choose Zhao Di who can't sing or rapperjojo or Wei Yunjing who dances, but chose Ai as a vocal." The popularity of those few is higher than Ai's! This shows that Xiao Yao is not blindly selected, I think his vision is still guaranteed!"
"Thinking about it this way, the first few sentences feel okay, so let's listen to it again!"
As soon as the man's voice fell, Ai, who had finished singing the first six lines of the song, put down the microphone that was holding up to his mouth, and the tune and soundtrack of the song also changed. After a fierce drum beat, the long-awaited electronic elements appeared.
This song is the electronic song "Monody" by Thefatrat and female singer Laura Brehm in the previous life, and it was also very popular in the previous life. There are two versions of this song from the past life, the official version and the radio version known as "RadioEdit". The official version has only one female vocal section, which is located in the second half of the whole song, while the radio version has two female vocal sections, which are located in the first half and the second half of the song.
Xiao Yao had heard these two versions in his previous life, and he liked them quite a bit. This time it was used as the opening performance of this show, Xiao Yao used the version of "radioedit", on the one hand, since he found Ai, let her sing as much as possible on the stage, and on the other hand, the official version is a little longer than the radio version, he wants to make the radio version his live version, and then release the official version of the original when the official version is released.
When the song entered the electronic part, everyone really got excited. A simple-sounding, but very brainwashing electronic melody made the audience and the contestants in the waiting area can't help but twist their bodies and jump.
The melody of this electronic music is not long, but it is repeated a lot, and each time it is repeated, there will be some different changes in the middle.
First there is some pure electronic sound, then suddenly a strange whistle is added, and after the whistle disappears, a flute sound appears in the electronic melody, and then the flute sound disappears, and a very atmospheric string music joins in. Therefore, although this melody is constantly repeated, brainwashing everyone who hears it, it continues to brainwash people, but at the same time, it shows a very rich change in arrangement and auditory feeling.
"That's awesome!" shouted many people on the main stage and in the waiting area of the contestants, waving their arms.
Whether it was the audience on the main stage or the contestants in the waiting area, the more they listened, the more they listened. Even the three star managers in the observation room who had already watched Xiao Yao's rehearsal and listened to this electronic music work in advance were all constantly swaying their bodies to the rhythm of this electronic music work at this time.