Li Xingyu

Li Xingyu

Born in Beijing in 1985. During his college years, he formed a band called SNP Xiaosheng, and won the champion of the 2006 Taipei Dadi Zhiyin global Chinese original music competition with his original song "coffee after the rain". After graduating from Communication University of China in 2007, Li Xingyu worked as an album producer for fan Shiqi, Liang Xiaoxue, Zhang Xuan and other singers. He was active in music, animation, film, drama and other fields, becoming a music producer with unique personal style. In 2009, he formed a cross-border group "Hey band" with little tiger and Lei Lei, performed in Beijing strawberry Music Festival and West Lake Music Festival for many times, and released the anti traditional concept album "Hey! Pop music. In 2010, the soundtrack animation "this idea is love" won the best music short film award of Ottawa Animation Festival. In 2012, he acted as the leading role and music producer in the multimedia drama "whale" of Beijing Youth Drama Festival. In 2014, he released his first solo album "whale circus Vol.1", with fresh and imaginative style.

Profile

Li Xingyu, born in Beijing in 1985, is now an independent music producer and acoustic space designer. He independently releases music albums in the name of whale circus. In his spare time, he works as an external teacher of Beijing Modern Music Research Institute and the moderator of audio application architectural acoustics, a professional audio forum. as a teenager, he became infatuated with rock and jazz, collecting thousands of rap and original songs. In middle school, he taught himself guitar in his spare time and was admitted to Beijing Broadcasting University (now Communication University of China) as a recording engineer. when Li Xingyu was a university student, he was active both inside and outside the University. SNP Xiaosheng, the first band he formed with his friends, won the champion of the 2006 Taipei earth bosom friend global Chinese original music competition with his original song coffee after the rain. After graduating in 2007, Li Xingyu continued to explore in the fields of music, animation, film and drama, and gradually grew into a music producer with unique personal style. Because of his wide range of works, his works have various forms. If we use one sentence to describe Li Xingyu, he is a "big boy", a naive and stubborn man. In his travel, he seeks inspiration for music creation. He has traveled a lot and has been to many places. His music is a blend of various cultures and has no boundaries. As a professional recorder, he collected all kinds of interesting and beautiful sounds, and combined them with his own music. The rain from Indonesia, the roads from Brazil and the sea before the storm are also part of his music. Li Xingyu once talked about the music concept of his first solo album "whale circus Vol.1": "from playing band at the beginning to making personal records now, I have really and slowly entered my own world. You may find your own shadow in my music, the world woven together by those familiar details of life. I don't like to be labeled or defined. Just like my creation, I never set a framework for myself. I hope you can hear the words that come from a real person to yourself, to everyone, and from the heart in common with every life. " after the launch of "whale circus" in October 2014, Li Xingyu brought the second part of "whisper" five months later. From the brewing to the completion, this "old boy" of the post-85 generation has been preparing for a long time. If the first "whale circus" is a static sound story book, which includes Li Xingyu's novels, essays and fairy tales woven for us by melody, speech, voice and words, and also constitutes an original ost of urban life, then "whale circus Vol.2 whisper" will become a flowing film. In August 2016, Li Xingyu led a professional recording and creative team to the Amazon rainforest to explore more primitive natural sounds, record and save them in the 52hz sound hall belonging to human beings, and use sound instead of language And words, to think, to express, to tell. Li Xingyu named the project "Amazon sound seeking project", which will include three sound works: a natural sound album "the laws of nature", a sound documentary "sound seeking journey", and a "story beyond the story" to study imagination. on December 18, 2016, the first sound art project of the 52hz sound Museum - "Amazon sound project" - the "law of nature" activity was held in Beijing music space.

Works Yearbook

·In 2009, he formed a cross-border group "Hey band" with tiger and Lei Lei, and released his first anti traditional concept album "Hey! Pop music won the 2011 Mars Music Award and the 2012 UN Rio 20 + global music competition in China. · in 2010, the soundtrack animation "this idea is love" won the best music short film award of Ottawa Animation Festival, and the soundtrack animation "cosmic marshmallow" won the best soundtrack award of Beijing digital media festival in 2010. In 2011, he worked as the producer of dream, the album of best newcomer fan Shiqi of the year at the Chinese media awards. · in 2012, Li Xingyu starred and music producer in the multimedia drama whale of Beijing Youth Drama Festival, which became the most popular independent drama of the festival. · from 2012 to 2013, Li Xingyu worked as the music producer of Chinese singers Zhang Xuan and Liang Xiaoxue, and released albums noway to be sad and things that can't be solved by time respectively. In 2013, "Hey band" released its second record "Hey! The sports meeting. · in 2014, he released his first solo album "whale circus Vol.1" in the name of whale circus. · in 2015, he was the music producer of Evergrande music Zhou Ziyan and released the album passing youth. He also released his second solo album "whale circus Vol.2 whisper" in mainland China and Taiwan

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Li Xingyu released his first solo album "whale circus Vol.1" in the autumn of 2014, which is a pure music album, not limited to any style. He is good at creating music works with the sense of picture lens, music works with the feeling of picture, and controlling different sound space. "at that time, everyone called him the star. The creation and arrangement of the star gave people the impression that there was no strong trace, but it had delicate beauty. It's not the general indifference of Xiao Qingxin. Listen to his songs carefully, he will always design many exquisite works in one piece of music. From his music to guess, it's easy to think that the star should be a very romantic Pisces man December 14, 2014 - "the whale circus" is the name of a French film. It only takes more than 30 shots in 140 minutes to tell the story of a circus with a whale carcass and a mysterious prince in a small town. These remote and professional backgrounds do not make the album obscure and difficult to understand. On the contrary, the piano and Ding Dong music sometimes seem like the babbling water, with the wind passing by. You can also feel the fairy tale warmth of winter dream. The night sky brings a quiet, clear and distant mood, which reminds people of Hayao Miyazaki's movies. There is also the scene of "All Saints", the text of fantasy monologue outlines the end of the world like a cold fairyland, but compared with Lei Guangxia's warmth, it seems that there is still a lack of sensational atmosphere - "China Daily" 2014.11.03 - such discoveries made Li Xingyu begin to reflect on the relationship between man and nature. He put his thinking into the pure voice album "the law of nature", trying to explain "is nature the rule of us, or do we reshape ourselves?" - Beijing News, January 5, 2017

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