Music Videos 音樂視频
Song & Dance of a Survivor
《歌舞慶重生》 原名《癌三次存活者之歌舞》
3. You Are Not Alone 《你並不孤單》
The original title was Song & Dance of a 3-Time Cancer Survivor. I omitted cancer from the title because I feel it is applicable to many different survivors. This is a humorous story in 12 acts based on my own experience. I have already written the libretto cum script with music sketches and production ideas as the basis for realisation as an Internet opera. At the moment it is in the form of a prototype as a creative autobiographical PhD that you can download free from Creative PhD page. These videos are experiments using material from a couple of acts in preparation for a much larger work should I be able to obtain the funding required.
《歌舞慶重生》是一個有音樂和很多演出材料的曲本，我寫的故事，米綠豪博士加添幽默，也是我博士論文最重要的創作部分。
以下是根據這曲本材料創造的五個音樂視頻，將會有更多。
On this page are the five videos I have done so far :
1. MANY HAPPY RETURNS WITH CHELSEA FLOWER SHOW
《祝你年年生日快樂和看切爾西花展》
2. electro-acoustic RADIO FUN 《放療趣事》
3. YOU ARE NOT ALONE 《你並不孤單》
4. THREE TIMES NO LESS 《三次》
5. Katarina Majcen plays "YOU ARE NOT ALONE" cello quartet for one
《你並不孤单》一人弹超短四重奏
I used polygonal images to signify the radiotherapy machine, beautiful round images to signify cancer cells, and had fun animating them to express my own experience!
直線圖像表示放射治療機，美麗的圓形圖像表示癌細胞，用各種有趣的動化表達親身經歷！
Francesca Jaggs, a Shiatsu practitioner comments on electro-acoustic Radio Fun:
" It spoke to me. The music and the graphics. Even though I have never had radiotherapy etc. However, I did experience a machine at a health day which was merely pulsing light and music... (this I didn't know) with eyes shut. I saw lots colours and shapes. The first half of your video reminded me very much of that experience which was very enjoyable... was so shocked when the guy said that had been entirely generated by me... it was all white light being pulsed."
一位從事指壓治療者看了《放療趣事》視頻後，說她對這音樂和型像有感應，她曾經歴閉上眼來面對播着音樂和發閃光的機噐，而產生顏色圖型的幻覺。
Radio Fun & Chemo Comedy is about the funny side of such treatments. Only a tiny fraction of the text is used in this video. More text is to be quoted in the forth-coming Jazzy Radio Fun music video. To read the entire humorous story, click Act 10.
這來自《歌舞慶重生》的第十段《放療趣事和攪笑化療》，是講接受治療時見到的趣怪事，此視頻只引用了少少曲詞。在《爵士樂放療趣事》視頻有多些曲詞。
I input numbers into the CCRMA computer system to generate pitch (frequency), rhythm (ratio of time), timbre (harmonics to be present or emphasised), envelop (attack- sustain- decay time), dynamics (amplitudes), structure etc. of the music imagined, then enriched with analogue music equipment. This is much more time/energy consuming than writing music for existing instruments, as I need to create every bit of the sound from scratch. I am not a researcher/scientist of acoustics, and relied on repeated intense listening, trial and error... I met Marcus West at Cardiff University – I was on an MA and he, a PhD. His math-related computer graphics seems appropriate for my music. The following links are related to his works:
https://pixels.com/artists/marcuswest
https://shop.spreadshirt.co.uk/marcus-wests-digital-artwork
放療比化療舒服點。由於放療是機器和数字，我作的音樂是數碼音樂，我把想像中的音高、音色、節奏、大細聲和結構等等，用數字型式輸入CCRMA電腦系統造成素材，再用電子器材處理創造成這音樂。這比為樂器作曲要花更多的時間和精力，我需要用頻率、時間比例、震幅度和諧波等等，合成來創造每一點的聲音，用數字输入電腦。我不是声音學科學家，需要反复地聆聽輸入後的效果，不斷改變數字直至對聲音感覺滿意。西馬可斯是我在大學時的師兄，他與數學有關的電腦圖形藝術很適合我動畫化用來結合音樂。以上是他的作品鏈接，這裡採用的包括一些得獎的電腦設計圖型。
1. MANY HAPPY RETURNS WITH CHELSEA FLOWER SHOW
《祝你年年生日快樂和看切爾西花展》
I wrote the short piano piece MANY HAPPY RETURNS for my goddaughter Sue to play as her birthday present. She requested I should write the music in "Classical" style, i.e., sounding like music of the Mozart/Haydn era. When I wrote this piece I was thinking more of Handel (especially the first phrase). However, Sue was delighted with the piece and I taught her to play it. On my birthday, Sue treated me to the Chelsea Flower Show. During COVID lockdown, Julian Jacobson, concert pianist and a professor at the Royal College of Music, performed this piece at home and sent me the recording. Then I came across Herry Lawford's photos of the Chelsea Flower Show. All's ready for the making of this music video.
契女生日，我為她寫鋼琴曲《祝你年年生日快樂》。她要我寫像莫扎特/海頓時期的古典音樂，但我作曲時，寫第一句時想着的是漢德爾。契女喜歡這曲，我教她彈。我生日，契女請我看切爾西花展。在疫症封鎖期，鋼琴家兼皇家音樂學院教授朱利安·雅各信在家彈奏此曲和錄了音，我見到赫里·羅福影切爾西花展的照片，正好用來製作此音樂視頻。
For related story, about me and Sue, the music and floral images as related to POSTLUDE BOUQUETS (a more poignant project), click Act 12.
相關故事，我和契女，音樂和形象與《花團錦簇後奏曲》的關係，請單擊第十二段。
If you want to play this easy piece, click below. 以下是這易彈的琴譜：
COMMENTS 評論:
Rev'd Sue Wise : " ...what beautiful photos! " 蘇維斯牧師說：＂多美麗的圖象啊！＂
Malcolm Singer (composer/conductor) : "You won't be surprised to learn that, delightful though this little piece is (and beautifully played by Julian), I prefer 'Ho Wai-On' music!
作曲家/指揮家馬琴勝家說：“雖然此曲怡人和朱利安彈得很好，你大概不會感到驚訝我更喜歡有‘何蕙安’風格的音樂！＂
CHELSEA FLOWER SHOW is held by the Royal Horticultural Society in the grounds of the Royal Hospital Chelsea in London, and famous for flower and landscape garden shows. The show is attended by the Royal Family and attracts many visitors.
切爾西花展每年由皇家園藝學會在倫敦切爾西皇家士兵養老院場地舉辦，以花卉和園藝秀著名，皇室到埸，遊人擠擁。
Fellow wildlife club member Marie Singleton took some photos of the 2015 Chelsea Flower Show. Click to enlarge. 以下是野生動植物會友在切爾西花展影的，單擊小圖放大。
2. electro-acoustic Radio Fun 《放療趣事》
Look back in humour. Words: Ho Wai-On & Mike Greenhough. Rowland Sutherland flute; Katarina Majcen cello; Anglia Ruskin Chamber Choir; Paul Rhys piano & conducts, and with electro-acoustics. Video clips by Ho Wai-On and 5 photos by Kitty Kwan 關伯瑋.
音樂包括女高音，長笛，單簧管，鋼琴，合唱和電子音樂處理。視頻綜合音樂、文字動漫、錄像和攝影。曲詞：何蕙安和米綠豪。
Feeling deserted in my hour of need I was forced to find a new strength to fight alone. The illness at last overcome, and I was the one to sympathise and understand…friends, old friends and good friends…who did not see me! I learned to accept and found new strength.
在我最需要有人的時候卻是冷清清的，我不得不獨自作戰。痊癒了，我還要去同情和理解那些沒來看我的人！ 我學會了接受和尋找到新力量。
At the time when I thought I could never make a long trip, I was persuaded to go to Palo Alto, CA. I revisited Stanford University where I had a wonderful time many years ago. I met up with old girls of True Light Middle School... Images used in this video were taken at Stanford and nearby.
當我以為不可能再長途旅行時，我被說服飛去加州，看看多年前我曾渡過美好時光的斯坦福大學，在灣區見到頗多真光中學校友...這視頻用的圖像是在斯坦福和附近拍攝的。
Act 11 You Are Not Alone is the longest, and the act that Mike Greenhough and I spent most time on, containing libretto suitable for arias. In this video I only used the words for the chorus. Towards the end of the video, there is preliminary introduction to the related project – stop and read the part that interest you. For related story, click Act 11 .
《歌舞慶重生》第11段《你並不孤單》是最長的，也是我和米綠豪合作最多的，其中包含適合寫主題曲的歌詞。在這視頻我只用了合唱部分的歌詞。視頻將結束時，有關於《歌舞慶重生》項目的初步介紹，若見到感興趣的，可拑停細看。請單擊第十一段看相關故事。
Scores 樂譜 used for this video.