In the fifth and final installment of our series on groundbreaking works by Hong Kong artists this year, we feature Elliot Leung's Metaverse Symphony, which can be enjoyed as a classical orchestral piece as well as an online Web3 game. A piece inspired by the metaverse, which is also its location and theme, Metaverse Symphony is an ambitious move toward changing the way music is consumed. Chitralekha Basu reports.
Elliot Leung likes musicians to play his compositions like a game. By his own admission, the intense staccato effects, multitonality and rapid shifts of tone and tempo in his works aren't the easiest to pull off. In order to make it up to the musicians, Leung says he "usually tries incentivizing them toward completing the particularly difficult sections". For example, the first movement of his Metaverse Symphony, he says, "has a very difficult rhythmic section involving violins and flutes, with the flutes just kind of blasting through it. However, once you're through, you get to play the melody. So it's not like you're made to go through that difficult part for nothing." Metaverse Symphony was premiered in May, performed by the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra. The concerts at the Hong Kong Cultural Centre came with a bonus, this time for the audience: The music was presented together with on-screen projections of digital art by Henry Chu. The moving images were a real-time visualization of the data on the varying volume dynamics of the sounds generated in the concert hall. Source: China Daily
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