my name is tunde I am a composer
I love to ride music it's because it's
nice to share something in your mind and
deeply in your heart a life is short
it's nice to share with people when I
was a little kid I was living in the
countryside of Hunan anyway you know two
people from Hunan whines Mouse at home
and otherwise me I was following all
those who ritualistic band for the
funerals and weddings and I just love
those shamans talking about next alive
in last life and through the magical
music Plains not just with the
instruments so that's why I wasn't so
sure it's a music playing or is just a
playing with the soul were playing of a
dream a playing of a certain stories
through very interesting sound world and
in a very very beginning I want to be
that kind of shaman in the village
talking through the sound about the last
life and convince people he knows the
next life very interesting so that's my
very very early music influence when I
was in Hunan village I always want to go
to Beijing or Shanghai because I thought
that's that's that's the song world then
after I live in Beijing for 10 years and
searching who I am I'm fall in love with
Bartok to John Cage just a college to
miss young and then I became more
ambitious I said what is beyond the
paging and Shanghai then people told me
New York I want New York is because I
thought that something must be
fascinating because experimental all the
religious express whatever you want to
be and the all kinds of people crazy
people genius people talent people and
strange people
all kinds of people living together
that's always something quite special to
me living in a Chinese village of course
your music philosophy is very very
earthy it's very very water and it's
very very air air and not just a texture
but also the idea to write a melody or
orchestra they always been that way John
Cage is somehow like my childhood shaman
really pushed me away forward to be a
Chinese composer why I thought to play
Orchestra and working with the Opera is
very important I love to share I've
always found Orchestra no prize is a
giant sort of institutions every country
every language every kind of people are
are using it and working with it so
later on I think Orchestra become my
instrument people always say hey ton
doing what kind of instruments you're
playing I never say I play violin I play
piano I always say you know my
instrument is the orchestra
what is the classical music to me you
know classical mercies art format really
really be important in the contemporary
it's actually always avant-garde from
Beethoven to Wagner from Philip Glass to
John Cage and all those wonderful
composers you see they they were very
very avant-garde and they they were
always the most important thing in the
society and every premier from a from a
right of spring to the rinse cycle is
always something very very big deal in
in in
life in a society but those days we have
forgotten of this we always said our
classical music is classical music so
when the key is feeling distance with
the classical orchestra actually that's
because of us because we've always put
classical music hey this is a classical
music no classical music is this because
clásico is supposed to be very very
challenging and continue historically
from a past to now even to the future
always linked through together I love or
prize because just like I love cinema I
always thought the Opera is kind of
ancient cinema they fund the cinema is
getting more and more like opera then I
find this to are the most dramatic
format close to your life that's why I
find when I was a child my dream is to
be that kind of shaman that's kind of
Shama actually is it is a directing of a
sound it's a director of stage directing
of life so when I read opera then I find
everything is so meaningful to color the
orchestra to have a melody with the
poetry or to have any words become so
artistically shared and it's just so
natural to me because I my life is it's
opera actually my opera Marco Polo you
see there's always a Opera in Opera as a
Western opera format of opera but then
inside there is a Peking Opera I mean
this - opera they called opera but
actually has completely different
approaches to the theatrical structure
so but when this two kind of system come
together is one plus one equals one and
have become another very very
interesting of experience of opera of
yourself and that's what I'm doing in
for example in Marco Polo in the morning
I always want to have a theory and the
milk but in the lunch time I always
wants to have a sushi and sashimi in a
dinner time of course spaghetti and a
steak or whatever I could have and that
pretty much like my opera you see you
have a all kind of theatrical experience
from a Shakespeare to Confucius from a
drones loud to John Cage but all of
those you don't have to make a
boundaries I always found the the stage
has been achieved to from that ancient
Miss mysterious remote village of my
childhood into a a
invisible Silk Road which is internet
sometimes through the technology for
example like Twitter and whatsapp or
WeChat which is Chinese kind of a mobile
thing has a 1.5 billion people actually
using it and I mean I'm doing that too
so I'm writing my week chat Symphony and
it was my also I'm writing my whatsapp
string quartet and all those technology
it made my stage you know invisible but
a much larger and timeless timeless so
technology is just like in my village
Shama interesting whatever his invisible
road to I think through film music you
can have a lot of people especially
specifically young people to come to
your concert hall to share with your
music but also to like your music we say
music for the orchestra or music for the
classical media could be
except by a lot of people and through
all those through film music it's very
very fantastic in media and I love film
music it's because synchronization to me
is one of the most satisfying art format
I love the song be synchronized to his
picture and I love the literature and
and the music color and and music sound
or synchronized when things synchronized
be together you see you can see you can
see yourself you can see the life much
much more transparent it's very exciting
to have Oscar on your hand that moment
of course your thought is it's surreal
it's it's not real because simply from
your village if ricefield
to the stage of Hollywood that's a huge
distance it's not just a couple decades
from a child food to now but also I
thought is thousands of years distance
between all kinds of cultures to getting
Oscar or to get accepted by a huge film
crowd that's very very a good proof for
the boundaries being broken for today's
culture and I enjoyed so much I
specifically enjoyed the Oscar is
because the Oscar bought so many young
people that's my dream I would love to
share my music always for the young
people I always want to be challenged by
young people I think they are the future
and I always wanted to embrace the
future