Chapter Twenty-Three: A Shocking Performance

"My talent show is..."Xiao Yao hesitated for a moment before continuing, "Don't forget to be able to multitask." Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info"

"Don't forget to multitask?" Zhao Xinghua repeated strangely and asked, "Do you mean to combine several talents to show?"

"Yes," Xiao Yao nodded, "It's all going on at the same time, so it's still a show." ”

"Do you want to recite a sheet music on the spot and then play it on several different instruments at the same time?" Mr. He guessed based on the meaning of these two idioms. Xiao Yao's most well-known talent is music, and his feat of playing three instruments at the same time during the blind audition of "The Voice" shocked many people.

"Actually, it's not," Xiao Yao shook his head and began to explain directly, "I want to ask the teacher to assign me an essay of less than 1,000 words, and I will take a minute to read it and write it down." Then I will recite it on the spot, and the teachers can check it against each other, which is what I will never forget. And the so-called multitasking is that I can do some other things in my hands while memorizing. ”

"Remember a thousand words a minute?" Don't say anything about multitasking, this alone has already made the eyes of the onlookers widen in disbelief. The normal reading speed of an ordinary person is between 300 and 500 words a minute. Reading a thousand words a minute is considered a very good reading speed, but he still has to remember?

"Are you sure?, what kind of article?" Zhao Xinghua asked with some excitement. Reading the script and memorizing lines is a thing that every actor can't get around, and being able to memorize a thousand words a minute is an ability that every actor dreams of. If Xiao Yao really has this ability, it will be a considerable advantage for the development of his acting career in the future.

"Yes. Xiao Yao nodded confidently.

"Okay," Zhao Xinghua turned around and took out a stack of bound paper from the bag hanging on the back of the chair and handed it to Xiao Yao, "This is a script that one of my students just wrote two days ago, and I sent it for me to help him read it and give advice." Since you are taking the acting department, then you can memorize a script. Of course, this script must be far more than a thousand words, and you can memorize as much as you can. ”

"Okay," Xiao Yao immediately took the script and read it.

"Remember a thousand words a minute, Xiao Yao is really so powerful?" Nina also whispered in disbelief to Lin Qisan beside her.

"I don't know. Lin Qisan shook his head, "It's true that this guy has a very good memory since he was a child, and the older he gets, the better his memory is." But when it comes to memorizing a thousand words a minute, none of us have ever seen him do it before. All I know is that a few of us don't even have half the memory of him, which is one of the reasons why we sometimes call him a demon. ”

"Wicked?" Nina said in surprise, "even you call him that?"

"Yes," Lin Qisan nodded, "At the beginning, adults learned from netizens to call him that, and a few of us children learned from adults, and later after we grew up and became sensible, we found that this title was very appropriate to describe him, so we have been calling him until now." ”

"Alright, the time is up. Zhao Xinghua said loudly, and the time of one minute was quickly.

Xiao Yao immediately closed the script and returned it to Zhao Xinghua, and then said, "I still need to prepare a multitasking performance before I start reciting." ”

"Yes. Zhao Xinghua said according to the script, "As long as you don't read the script anymore, you can remember it within a minute." ”

Xiao Yao nodded, ran to the corner, moved the three scenes of two large and one small to the middle of the field, and returned to the place where he was standing in the team, took his hug and began to take things out.

"The Four Treasures of the Study, this guy really listened to the suggestion to perform calligraphy in the third test. Teacher He watched Xiao Yao take out a few things, and couldn't help but think of what he said casually during the second test.

Xiao Yao laid out a few pieces of rice paper on a large scene block and smoothed them, pressed paperweights on both sides, and then placed inkstones and brushes. Because it was not suitable to grind ink on the spot, Xiao Yao brought bottled ink and poured it directly into the inkstone. Then I took out the brush from the pen case, reached into the water bottle to absorb the water, squeezed it dry, and put it on the pen holder.

After preparing for calligraphy, Xiao Yao took out a black square chessboard-like object from the bag and placed it on another large piece of scenery, and connected it to the live sound equipment.

There is no Chinese person who does not know the four treasures of the study, and when Xiao Yao took out these and put them on the scene, everyone on the scene knew that he was going to perform calligraphy on the spot. But the thing that Xiao Yao put on another piece of scenery was not known to everyone at the scene.

"What is that?" the female examinee who performed acrobatic jiu-jitsu asked Nina next to her, "Connected to the stereo, those small white squares and small black dots on it are all keys? Is that a musical instrument?" Through the performance just now, the candidates knew that Xiao Yao, Lin Qisan and Nina were together.

"Well, that's the electronic pads, which make and play electronic music. Nina whispered to the girl next to her, "It's also a musical instrument." "She's seen Xiao Yao play this thing on his laptop, so she knows.

"Damn, this kid is really good at playing, playing pads at the exam site, is this going to be a live DJ?" Lin Qisan shook his head and sighed.

In fact, when it comes to musical instruments that can be played with one hand, Xiao Yao first thinks of piano and electronic organ. However, even if it is a smaller electronic keyboard, the overall length is a bit too long. When playing, it is easy to move the upper body because the left hand moves on different keys and the upper body is tilted, which then affects or even interrupts the rhythm of the right hand writing, and the chords cannot be played with one hand to cooperate with the main melody, making the music played relatively thin, so Xiao Yao simply chose this 30 cm square pad and used it to play a piece of electronic music live.

"The difference between traditional Chinese calligraphy and trendy electronic music is too great, can he really do both things at the same time while reciting?" the examiners' faces were also full of surprise. This kind of multitasking is much harder than playing two or three different instruments at the same time during the blind audition of "The Voice", and even if they are well-informed, they have never seen anyone play like this in the acting examination room.

Xiao Yao, who was preparing for the work, did not wait for Zhao Xinghua to shout to start, picked up the brush on the pen holder with his right hand, dipped it in the inkstone, hung his wrist above the upper right corner of the rice paper, and pressed a small round black button on the periphery of the pad with his left hand, and an electronic melody came out of the stereo.

Xiao Yao began to write on rice paper with his right hand, and the fingers of his left hand began to rhythmically tap on the thirty-six small square buttons arranged in the middle of the pad, and at the same time, his mouth began to recite: "The Eagle Strikes the Sky, the third draft." Screenwriter, Yu Yonghua. The first scene, inside the traveling bus, in the evening, heavy rain......"

The sound of the sound at the scene was not very loud, and the rhythmic electronic music did not cover up Xiao Yao's extremely penetrating sound using "three-chamber resonance". At the same time, several examiners who sat close to each other also clearly saw that square calligraphy began to appear on the rice paper. Although I can't see exactly what is written because of the distance and angle, at least I can see that the handwriting is still very neatly arranged. This piece of music is a half-finished product, and the melody in the background is played by Xiao Yao in advance, but the extremely rhythmic electronic drum beat in it is sounded with Xiao Yao's fingers jumping on the pad.

Xiao Yao's right hand writing maintains a relatively fixed speed, but there is a clear rhythmic change when his left hand taps on the pad, and the rhythm of reciting the script in a subdued tone is also different from that of calligraphy and performance, which seems to have a sense of separation that three people are doing three different things.

"Oh my God, it's really going on at the same time!" everyone at the scene looked at Xiao Yao in the middle of the venue with a hellish expression.

Xiao Yao continued to perform without distraction. When the script recitation came to the part of the characters' lines, Xiao Yao's mouth also imitated the tone and tone of the characters in the play, and it was not simply a simple and straight recitation. When the pen and ink in his right hand were about to dry, Xiao Yao did not forget to reach out to the inkstone to dip the ink. The left hand is not simply tapping on the small white square, and when the music is played to a certain point, he will also move to the side and press the small round black button on the periphery to change the background melody.

"It's a nice song, and it feels completely different from the electronic music I used to hear in bars and clubs. The people at the scene slowly recovered from the shock of Xiao Yao's multitasking, and began to pay attention to the specific content of Xiao Yao's performance, "There is no sense of noisy and noisy nightclubs, but a feeling of ethereal and vastness." ”

"Have you ever heard Gong Chen's "I Can Only Accompany You Here" and "Faded" sung on "Super Cool Electronic Music"? The vocal assistant behind the examiners said to the physical assistant who sighed, "If I'm not mistaken, this piece should have been written by himself." I heard that every time he performs in public, he will come up with new original works, which seems to be true. ”

"I don't know what his calligraphy is about. Another teaching assistant said, "I heard that when he tested his lines in the second test, he used a modern poem called "Seeing and Not Seeing" written by himself, plus the previous "Birds and Fish", and the two modern poems written by this little guy are also very good." ”

"I still think he is very good at memorizing lines. The teaching assistant in charge of the lines said, "The script he recited now only took a minute to memorize, and he didn't have much time to think about it, but the dialogue he read out basically matched the scenes and character characteristics in the script." This memory is terrifying!"

The teaching assistants sighed in a whispered discussion, and the candidates who watched were completely stupid. Now they are extremely grateful to Lin Qisan for his proposal to put Xiao Yao at the end. If they had watched Xiao Yao's anti-heaven performance before, most of them would have been really affected during the talent show.

The examiners and teachers didn't look stupid, but this kind of performance was the first time they had seen it in their lives, so they didn't speak, and watched Xiao Yao's performance on the field with great devotion.

As the minutes passed, it gradually exceeded the time limit of about three minutes for the general candidates' talent shows. Xiao Yao didn't stop, and none of the examiners who were extremely engaged thought of the length of time and shouted to Xiao Yao to stop. As for the teaching assistants and other candidates on the spot, no one had the heart to pay attention to the exam time at this time.

After almost six or seven minutes, which basically took twice as long as the average candidate, Xiao Yao finished playing all the electronic music before stopping with his left and right hands and mouth.

Xiao Yao stood up, picked up the rice paper that had been written with block letters, and showed it to the examiner teacher first, and then took a few steps forward and gently put the rice paper on the table in front of the examiners, before returning to his original position and bowing to the examiner teachers, indicating that his talent show was over.

"Great!" Zhao Xinghua didn't rush to look at the rice paper in front of him, but couldn't help but take the lead in applauding when Xiao Yao bowed.

Zhao Xinghua took the lead, and several examiners and teachers next to him, the teaching assistants behind them, and the other candidates who were watching also gave Xiao Yao their applause from the bottom of their hearts.

The applause grew louder and louder, and several candidates who were so shocked that they didn't know how to express their emotions even cheered loudly regardless of the discipline of the examination room.

"Awesome!" among these people, Lin Qisan naturally shouted the loudest.