We teamed up with the game designers at the University of Central Lancashire to preserve rare instruments in the virtual world
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Mar
Mar
Its our final day in Boading and today we planned to record serval instruments at Hebei University. Our prior arrangement with Dean of the Institute thankfully gave us access to the instruments plus a studio space to record them in. The instruments consisted of: Er Hu, serval different types of Gu Zheng’s and a Bianzhong. […]
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Mar
Mar
The second part of the day in Xiongxian consisted of recording an ensemble with some very well respected musicians. This group are used to playing on larger stages around China and, now in higher demand due to the changes due to take place with this province. We thank the Dean Lu of Hebei University for […]
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Mar
Mar
Part two of our recording in Xiongxian consisted of a sampling session with the instruments that are specific to this region of China. We moved indoors, as silence is a must for sampling. We had seven to sample. 云锣 Yunluo, 笙 Sheng, 笛子 Dizi, 管 Guan, 铛子 Dangzi, 镲 Cha and 鼓 Gu. The group […]
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Mar
Mar
It is March 2018 and day 2. We have just arrived in Xiongxian, the forgotten backwater spot in China. Xiongxian is now at the heart of President Xi’s ‘Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei integration plan’. The “Jing-Jin-Ji” project is one of the President’s two main development initiatives, alongside the “One Belt, One Road” trade and infrastructure strategy. A lot […]
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Mar
Mar
Day 1, we are in the Hebei province and arrived in Boading at 15:20. We need to get over to our first recording session at the Lotus Garden soon as the musician we plan to record leaves at 17:00. We manage to check in and gather all of our recording equipment required for our first […]
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Mar
Mar
今年1月，为了准备今年中国国际教育论坛配套活动——时装表演环节，UCLan服装专业的师生校友特意来到贵州千户苗寨，开展了为期一周的采风之旅，寻找能够融合中英特色的时装设计灵感。 For CSCSE China International Education Forum supporting activity-UCLan & BIFT Fashion show, UCLan Fashion Design staffs and students came to Qian’hu Miao Village, Guizhou for field research, looking for fashion design inspiration that can integrate Chinese and English features. 设计师们贵州的到此一游，似乎和我们大不相同呢？一份来自英国兰开夏的贵州旅游攻略在此奉上~ The Guizhou trip seems to be very different from general sightseeing trips. Now, let’s […]
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Mar
Mar
To illustrate the musical outcomes possible from the sampled instruments in Yunnan, we asked for serval volunteers from the BA (Hons) Music Production course at UCLan to compose a track. The outcomes fuse the samples take from unique musical instruments based in the tribes of Hani, Yao and Yi.
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Jul
Jul
Recording in Yunnan came with its fair share of obstacles when it came to capturing high quality samples. On the first day, recording the Hani Tribe – it was pouring with rain, and seemed it would be nearly impossible to get a clean recording of their performance. Eventually, we used umbrellas and each member of […]
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Jul
Jul
Driving up through miles of forestry and rice fields, we finally reached a tiny village amongst the incredibly lush green mountains. The members of the village greeted us – we intrigued everyone, as they had never seen a person of non-Chinese ethnicity before. We followed the crowds of people down to a large concrete sports […]
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