Ipad is our future~

Imitating playing piano, Guitar or even Chinese Guzheng Music etc. Those are realistic simulator, which not only expand musician's performance scope, but also allow many music amateur to enjoy lots of fun brought by those applications.

Telematic performance

The term telematic performance refers to a live performance (art, dance, music, etc.) which makes use of telecommunications and information technology to distribute the performers between two or more locations.

Free Play Obstacles and Openings section

This section is about the ways in which the inherent creative impulse we have as children gets buried by living in the world, by criticism, by judgment, addictions (and not just to ingested substances but to ways of thought as well). This is balanced nicely with ways of overcoming some of these challenges, including surrender, patience, perseverance and other useful tactics. Nachmanovich stated in the introduction that one of the purposes of the book is to provide "a block-buster, a wedge for breaking apart creative blocks." 

The Internet2 final performance

December 8th was my first time participating in a Telematic performance. It was an across time and space concert involved in three university. (Queen’s University Belfast; NYU Expanded Music; University of Tromsø) Queen’s University Belfast is located in Northern Ireland. University of Tromsø is seated in Norway. NYU is situated New York City. The concert was Impossible to complete when network technology was limited. It took a great challenge on long- distance location, which was hard to imagine in 15 years ago. After spent several hours to set up and dress rehearsal, the concert has started. My work was super easy, which was violin Improvisation with other Musicians and a little dance movement, which has practice on class several times. Musical improvisation comes from the idea of Jazz music. Play it by ear was the core idea. The Dance movement with Belfast and Tromso has realized the without image or voice delay communication. Far From Shores We Know concert has successfully concluded conducted by professor John Gilbert.  

Tired but still happy day.

Shuyi, Jun and I arrived at Steinhardt theatre in the early morning. The students form Technology class lead by a professor Tom Beyer, one of our event Producers, has begun to set up recording device. After a little while, our professor John Gilbert has arrived. Under his leadership, our group's members work together. I was responsible to design our program with other two classmates. We carefully follow the template gave by our professor. We tried to transfer the file type firstly, then Jun collected information from a bunch of Email, at the same time, Ruoyao search the introduction of three schools. (Queen’s University Belfast; NYU Expanded Music; University of Tromsø)During the production process, whenever we met with difficulties, our professor Gilbert always came to help us nicely and patiently instead of complaining. I’ll never forget what he said: “see? You have already learnt something.” We were greatly touched by what he told us. I even wanted cry when we finished our program and putting up the posters on our college window at 8:30PM. 

Macy's Thanksgiving parade 2013~

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The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is an annual parade presented by the U.S. chain store business Macy's. The route beginning at 77th Street Central Park West and ending at Macy's Herald Square. It was totally classic American thing to do in the holiday.The balloons in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade come in three varieties.In order to get a good viewing spot,I arrived before 6:30 a.m. the morning of the parade to stake out space along the parade route.I wore plenty of warm clothes and brought a bottle of hot ginger tea. 

 Although it was very windy and cold on that day, so many people crowd on the street.   Many huge balloons floated in the sky, which was amazing. The balloons included spider man, Sonic, snoopy etc. My body was frozen stiff after two hours later. I felt so so tired but happy!

A meaningful Black Friday Day!

Black Friday is the Friday following Thanksgiving Day in the United States (the fourth Thursday of November), often regarded as the beginning of the Christmas shopping season. Instead of waiting on line for a long time to buying unnecessary stuffs, I talked the structure of upcoming concert with Professor Gilbert at Caffe Dante, one of the original coffee houses on MacDougal Street in Greenwich Village, where artists still hangout and discuss and create new work.This meeting was meaningful and exciting to me, because I have learned quite a lot when working with our Professor  .