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Composer Tan Dun to employ "organic music" in Olympic production

mady | 23 October, 2007 10:51

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Chinese musician Tan Dun has said that he is “organic music” in the opening ceremony for the Beijing Olympic Games.
Organic music will include natural elements of water and paper and also Chinese Olympic stars “movements”.
Such as the basketball hits of Yao Ming and the starting of a hurdle race of Liu Xiang. Tan won a Grammy and
Oscar award for the soundtrack of the movie, “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon”.

Oscar-winning Chinese musician Tan Dun said at an ongoing arts festival that he is going to employ "organic music"s-
natural elements such as water and paper - in his rock-and-roll production for the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

Tan, winner of the Grammy and Oscar awards for his soundtracks of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon",  had participated
in music production for Beijing's 2008 Olympic Bid Film. The native of central China's Hunan Province is one of the
musical planners for the opening ceremany, award granting ceremonies and a theme song for the Beijing Olympics.

"They are natural sounds embodying sports passion, which are quite touching," said Tan, adding that in his eyes the three
are all musicians because he could "see colors and hear music in their movement rhythm".
Tan is currently testing his idea of bending these sounds of movement in rock music. It was said he had put microphones
under the water of Shanghai Swimming Pool to record the sounds created by divers.

Tan's "organic music" attempt, beginning at the end of the 1980s, incorporates sounds and instruments from the natural
world - water, wind, ceramics and paper - to create a new type of "experiencing music", which also echoes traditional
Chinese culture of "human life being in a highly harmony with nature".

the China Shanghai International Arts Festival, which will run through a month, has become a major cultural gala and
an artistic pageant.

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