Signs And Listening:Speaking A Hybrid Language In The First Generation Of Chinese Electroacoustic Music

The first generation of Chinese composers to work in the field of electronic music became active in the 1980 s.An awareness of the late beginning of this work,in comparison with developments in Europe and the United States,propelled Chinese composers to seek a distinctive path.In response to these developments,Chinese composers and critics have sought in recent years to offer an evaluation of the significance of these early achievements.A general consensus among many scholars suggest that Chinese electroacoustic music will be most successful by fusing traditional and national Chinese stylistic traits with Western technology,in order to form a hybrid language.This hybrid language also makes Chinese electronic music become a strong impact of the field,which responded the East and the west,modern and traditional.Among the various issues of cross culture,Chinese electronic music shows a high degree of integration in aesthetics and national spirit.In the current study of Chinese electronic music,the criticism of aesthetics,the research on the difference between Chinese and Western electronic music from the angle of comparative study is very little.Through the listening,and combined with the concept of semiotics to study electronic music is even fewer.In the study of Western electronic music,composers and critics pay much attention to the listening.Beginning with Pierre Schaeffer and his concept of the “reduced listening”,He proposed how to listening to electronic music.Inspired the fierce debate between the composer and scholar in the post Schaefer.For me,Chinese electronic music attaches great importance to the signs of music,and The signs is used to communicate with the audience.Therefore,it is more important to explore the attitude of listening in Chinese electronic music.In this paper,I discuss how the Chinese electronic music through the self defined semiotics to reduced listening to become a possibility,and the relationship between different semiotics systems and Schaefer’s reduced listening.