Echoes of woodblocks from Peking Opera by Mengjie Maggie QI published on 2012-11-11T15:34:22Z Echoes of woodblock from Peking Opera The piece uses the single sound material, which was a wood percussion instrument in Peking opera named ‘Bang Zi’. The composer managed to keep the cultural characteristic of the sound by manipulating the samples on various levels. With the development of textures changing from simple to complex, and the groove of the rhythmic patterns become more intensive as the development of the emotion, also, it accumulates the energy for the climax. The whole development of the piece is a metaphor of the life cycle. A man from innocent to mature, when life goes to the end, it actually turns into the beginning of a new life, it is the continuation of the past. Genre Electroacoustic music