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I've composed this piece on a plane from Birmingham to Hong Kong (actually it's Bham -> Dubai, Dubai -> HK) with Logic and I type all the notes and effects with a MacBook Pro only LOL.

Cantopop Composition on a plane

For HKMoA Sig. tune project.

The piece Petrichor (雨後清香) is an electroacoustic piece that brings people into an analogy of a tour to the Hong Kong Museum of Art. The piece is composed with four different sections, which is the entry (of the museum), walking around, falling into a conception with an antique, and coming back to the reality at the end of the piece. 
The first section starts with very noisy, street noise-like opening, accompanying with deep breaths, which metaphors visitors walking into the museum from the noisy world, calming down themselves with deep breaths.
After walking into the museum, a nicely tuned bell tunes came in with classic broken chords at background, accompanying the visitors’ browsing of those treasured antiques. 
In the short third section, the composer is trying to imitate the conception of the antiques when visitors looked at it, enjoying the messages creators implied, or how the visitors felt when they looked at the antique. 
In the last but not least section, the bell tunes take the melody again as the visitors exited the conception, and enjoying other collections in the museum. The piece was composed without a proper ending that made the piece an open piece and this let the audiences could continue the piece by themselves when they visit the museum. 


‘雨後清香(Petrichor)’ 是為一首於香港較為罕見的電子音效作曲，以聲音描繪的方式將聽眾帶進香港藝術館。全曲共分為四部份，分別為’進入’，’觀賞’，’意境’以及’現實’。

此曲以一種非常煩擾，類似於街上噪音的聲音開始全曲第一部分，伴隨着深呼吸的聲音，象徵着聽眾正在由煩擾的世界走入重開的藝術館，以深呼吸幫助自己放鬆，並預備欣賞藝術館中龐大珍貴的館藏。
於第二部分，則由一種經典柔和的伴奏伴隨着清澈悅耳的鐘聲，陪伴着聽眾於藝術館內欣賞不同的藏品。
而於短促的第三部分，作曲者嘗試用音樂去模仿參觀者受到某藏品的啟發，進入到藏品意境當中所產生的神秘感覺，並享受着創造者為藏品所賦予的訊息。
於此曲最後一部分，與第二部分相象的鐘聲再度響起，象徵着參觀者已離開藏品的意境，於藝術館中繼續遊覽，欣賞着其他珍貴的藏品。作曲者為’雨後清香’安排了一個開放式結尾，讓作品呈現一種不確定性，並讓聽眾可以隨着參觀香港藝術館的路上為餘下的旅程譜上屬於自己的一首曲。

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