Face -to -face | healing musician Zhang Kangming: Taking sound as a medicine, pursuing inner balance through the melody

Last Friday, Music healing master Zhang Kangming brought a unique "Ming Shi · Music Healing Sleep Concert" at the Poly Theater in Nanjing: there were 50 lying audience seats on the stage; many audiences only remembered the opening and The field was falling, because he fell asleep in the middle; when the musician exited, the applause in the hall was thunderous, and everyone was feeling "sleeping well." As a creative cross -border musician, Zhang Kangming played multiple dimensions to switch music to make ballet music, gust with film and television dramas, games, advertising and other soundtracks. Once a chance, he was inspired by the traditional word "music" of "music". Note that the traditional Chinese characters of the medicine are "medicines", and the two may have the same place, focusing on healing music creation.

Healing music, "The biggest wish is that the audience listened to sleep and sleep at peace" "

Over the years, the concept of healing music is very hot. Many people have related music in the song list. When you are irritable, you can listen to it when you are depressed. Zhang Kangming was involved in creating it and landing as a concert. In fact, he was driven by big data.

A few years ago, Zhang Kangming published a record of meditation "Finding the World". "I personally interested in meditation and psychology. I also systematically learned hypnosis and psychological theory. Unexpectedly, the amount of this record on the Himalayan APP is very large, there are more than 3 million listening volume, which is unexpected. "

Zhang Kangming then had the idea of ​​landing, and planned Ming Shi · Music healing and sleeping concert. At the end of last year, he was currently performed. There are currently six or seven games. Next, there will be more than a dozen tourists from all over the country. "In the past At the meeting, musicians must do their best to make the audience's thinking excited, and what I want to do is just the opposite, but it is even more difficult. "

The music must be nice, and you must be able to pull the audience's thinking from the bit of trivial life, then enter the music, and then pull this thinking. This is what Zhang Kangming needs to do. For a long time, I had to fall asleep when I made these tunes, because it was too quiet. Now that I have launching a sleeping concert at the theater, my biggest wish is that the audience can fall asleep peacefully when listening to music. In fact, I also do it. At each concert, I could hear the mobile phone falling to the ground one after another, because the audience fell asleep, relaxed, and the mobile phone in my hand dropped. "

The reporter saw that Zhang Kangming's musical instruments at the sleeping concert used piano, Guqin and flute. He told reporters that in the traditional Chinese musical instrument, the tone of the flute has a hazy feeling and is very suitable for the spirit, and Guqin pays attention to the heart. "In my opinion, a word is that" Guzheng was played by others, and Guqin was a bombs. The 'to themselves, the guqin songs are mostly concerned. The personality of these two instruments is very matched with healing. The piano song bottoms that are soothing. The combination of the three can create a very quiet atmosphere. "

In the creation of healing music, Zhang Kangming also found that traditional Chinese instruments have been promising in it. China has widely used five sounds (palaces, business, horns, signs, feathers) in ancient times. Healed, and such melodies have already existed in the collective subconscious of the Chinese people, so folk songs are particularly easy to fire in China. In the future, he is preparing to develop more traditional Chinese instruments into creation.

From "music" to "medicine", I hope to balance the inner heart through the rhythm of healing music

In fact, there are also opportunities to study healing music. "It is always necessary to solve problems when encountering problems in growth. Everyone may say that it can be venting music with music." Zhang Kangming said It is found that some unbalanced things in the heart are actually there.

This is just like the so -called "Divine Comedy Music" full of magical and easy -to -top of the short video platforms, and it seems that it has the effect of decompression. However, in Zhang Kangming's view, these "divine songs" rhythm and connotation are too simple, and music aesthetics is also lacking. "Fast food music has given the public so -called so -called music signals, and implanted popular things into irresponsible attributes . After listening to this kind of music, people's way of thinking will seem to be forced to change in the subtle way, and it will gradually become arbitrary. "

So Zhang Kangming went to read a variety of books, religion, philosophy, psychology, etc. Occasionally found that the traditional word "Le" of "Le" has a similar structure to the traditional word "medicine" of "medicine". After reading more information, he learned that in ancient times, "music" was not just music. Music has a medicinal effect. The ancients "used sounds as medicine and cure for the heart". The so -called cure is to create inner balance. This is the great wisdom of the ancients. So Zhang Kangming thought, then balanced his heart through music and rhythm. Based on this starting point, the relevant healing tracks and concerts he created hope to have the effects of frequency regulation and resonance in the depths of the audience. The audience can be infected or even changed by music to achieve the balance of ideal state.

For many domestic audiences, the earliest healing music that was exposed to was basically Switzerland's Ben Derui music. In this regard, Zhang Kangming said that his healing concert was quieter than Bangde Rui. "Bangde Rui music mostly presents the sound of nature. We It will also go to the mountains in Anhui to collect wind and water sounds, and the pomospermia barking. This cannot be simulated. It is unique to use them in music creation. "

He also reiterated again that he was like Ban De Rui music, and he felt a kind of artistic aesthetics through as much as possible melody, that is, "music aesthetics", which caused the audience's thinking and gained something.

In addition, although healing music is quiet, it is not boring. Zhang Kangming believes that he is a quiet person, but his stage is very rich. In Wuhan in June this year, after half of the performance, Zhang Kangming "played" with the audience. He first let the audience rubbing their hands to simulate the light rain of Lili, the palm of the palm of the heavy rain, and then led the audience to applaud and clap their legs. With the fight of the audience, everyone conducted a harmonious impromptu performance. This is also him. I like part, "Generally speaking, I don't think my music is deep, but it is fun. It is closer to the thinking cognition and values ​​of modern people, so the audience will understand, and it will also produce close -range communication fluctuations "".

Widely involved unlimited, the depth of music depends on the depth of thought of the creator

During the Yangzi Evening News/Zi Niu News interview, Zhang Kangming talked many times and he liked to read books. In addition to mentioned above, he will also study compatriot physics and quantum mechanics. The reporter asked him curiously "whether you can understand", and he laughed and said, "If you don't understand, you will jump over. What I need is not an experience, but I want to get a way of thinking."

He also likes to watch science fiction novels, and he will write himself, but he thinks that "it is bad to write", "I like to think about things outside the material world, science fiction can be carried on my thoughts. In the case of, music is material, and it can also be said to be intangible. It can be heard but can't be touched. It actually exists in the human brain. If there is no listener, the music will not be music. "

In addition, as a cross -border development musician, Zhang Kangming also made soundtracks for TV series, movies, advertisements, games, multimedia performance shows. The common point of these music and healing music is that they need to be supported by clear emotional elements.

For example, the soundtrack of the movie and the TV series will be more rigorous than the movie. "When the TV drama soundtrack, generally talk to the director about some plate sex music, happy, sad, and angry. It is perfectly fitted with the picture, and even to some extent can help emotions that are not expressed in the picture. "

And game soundtracks may need to be more exaggerated to show some kind of emotions. "I have made a game soundtrack. Regarding a monster, the game producer's request is that although the setting of the level is not so difficult, it is not so difficult to set the level. But the soundtrack makes players feel very difficult. "For this reason, he also bought the game console to experience and feel it, and learned to accumulate experience.

"If the composer cannot pass clear emotions, then these music will lose the color of the theme and lose the function and value of serving the theme. I know what kind of emotions I want to write, and I outline such emotions through music. This is actually a kind of ability, a kind of literacy. And this literacy must be read through a lot of reading to make me hold myself. "In the interview, Zhang Kangming repeatedly mentioned that only holding himself can hold music.

"HOLD lives" is actually enriching yourself and strong inner heart. It is often said that the article must be "there is something". In Zhang Kangming's eyes, the music is the same. Although the carrier is different, the connotation and value of the passing should be the same as the text. This requires the musician itself to have a rich spiritual world, and it is inseparable from reading, experience and other methods to draw rich knowledge of knowledge. Zhang Kangming believes that music has "depth", which depends on the depth of the creator's thoughts.

"For music creation, the way of thinking will help me more than music theory"

During the interview, Zhang Kangming admitted that although the road of music creation could not be bumpy, it was not very smooth. At the age of 9, he came into contact with the electronic piano, and the sound of the black and white keys was very wonderful. Since then, he has often had a melody in his mind to "find the door".

At the age of 15, Zhang Kangming made the first complete music in his life and was used by the school choir. This was recognized by classmates and teachers for three minutes to give Zhang Kangming a great encouragement. "Since then, I have started to start. I am interested in music creation and become more and more intense. For me, the creation of music is like a housewife in the house to eat a very delicious dish, and then I want to make the same delicious dishes myself. . After listening to the song a lot, I always want to write a little melody, and I also want to make the melody written there. If it can be sung by others, it is a broader self -existence. " Zhang Kangming also said that this can be regarded as a major event on his music road, but he also believes that "I have my own music thinking, so this incident will definitely occur, not the creation of this incident. It is very helpful. Although it is a big deal, as long as I have been on the road of music, it will definitely produce. "

At the age of 19, Zhang Kangming made the first money by music production. He is happy to send the written tunes to everyone. Gradually, someone found him and asked him to write a song.

At the age of 20, he has only a high school degree and was collected by the Shanghai Academy of Drama. Since then, Zhang Kangming has started teaching while teaching. For 20 years at school, he has created a lot of ballet exercises and published a book. Earlier this year, in order to make music creation more concentrated, Zhang Kangming resigned from the work of the play and established the Mingshi Music Workshop.

Zhang Kangming joked that in a sense, he is a "grassroots" musician and a "miscellaneous family". There is no so -called "college school" music theory support. The way of thinking first. "When creating, those melodies will germinate in their minds and flow naturally. Mozart once said that the songs he made were given to him by God, not he wrote." In fact, he meant. "He mixed everything and merged into one by one. Freedom, Tianma is a core music world.

【Quick question and answer】

K = Kong Xiaoping

Z = Zhang Kangming

K: Will musicians like you lays unique music labels in your work?

Z: I personally didn't deliberately. Will others have it? I don't think there is any, because the so -called labels do not need to bury it deliberately. Different people do things differently. At first glance, this person is done by this person. It must be there, just like your character.

K: When created, will you retreat? Are there any requirements for space time?

Z: Not so particular. I do n’t need any mountains and rivers when I retreat, and there are no one.

K: Are there any plans for other musical instruments added in healing music in the future?

Z: I actually tried Erhu before, but there was a sense of sorrow when Erhu bass, but she gave up. In the future, there may be ancient musical instruments such as 老 and electronic music.

K: Today, a very high -end healing SPA has launched a new type of healing such as rain sticks in South America and Song bowls. It is also quite like musical instruments. What do you think?

Z: Like Song Wan, it belongs to the category of percussion instruments. Tapping it will make a very comfortable and relaxed sound, and it also resolves the ring. Speaking of which, this is actually doing sounds, and we are healing with music (Music). The threshold and difficulty, and artistry will be more complicated and sophisticated.

K: What else is there a wild plan?

Z: I am very interested in language recently. I plan to learn a language below. In addition, I want to be rich on the instrument, I might learn a guitar or drum.

Wen | Yangtze Evening News/Zi Niu Journalist Kong Xiaoping

Intern Zhang Yuzheng

(Pictures, performance videos, and audio materials are all provided by the interviewees)

Video shooting | Chen King Kong intern Jing Yuhan

Video editing | Wang Yimeng

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Edit: Qin Xiaoyi

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