Entertaining Children

  Chapter 350 Shocking performance

  "My talent show is..." Xiao Yao hesitated for a moment, then continued, "Not forgetting and multitasking."

   "Don't forget to add multi-tasking?" Zhao Xinghua repeated strangely, and asked, "Do you mean to display several talents together?"

   "Yes," Xiao Yao nodded, "all together, it's going on at the same time, so this is still a performance."

  "Are you going to recite a score on the spot, and then play it with several different instruments at the same time?" Teacher He guessed based on the meaning of these two idioms. Xiao Yao's most well-known talent is music. The feat of playing three instruments at the same time in the blind selection of "Good Voice" shocked many people.

"In fact, it's not," Xiao Yao shook his head and began to explain directly, "I would like to ask the teacher to randomly designate an article within a thousand words for me. I will spend a minute to read it and write it down. Then I will proceed. When recitation on the spot, the teachers can conduct a comparison check. This is what I remember. The so-called multi-tasking means that I will do some other things on my hands while recitation."

  "Remember a thousand words in a minute?" Don't talk about multitasking, this one alone has made the examinees on the sidelines incredibly wide-eyed. The normal reading speed of an ordinary person is between 300 and 500 words per minute. Reading a thousand words in a minute is considered a person with a very good reading speed. Does he still have to remember?

  "Are you sure? What kind of article?" Zhao Xinghua asked with some excitement. Reading scripts and memorizing lines is something that every actor can't get around. Can I remember a thousand words in a minute? That is the ability that every actor dreams of. If Xiao Yao really has this ability, it will be a considerable advantage for his future development of acting career.

   "Yes." Xiao Yao nodded confidently.

"Okay," Zhao Xinghua turned around and took out a stack of bound paper from the bag hanging on the back of the chair and handed it to Xiao Yao. "This is a script written by a student just two days ago. I can send it for help. He took a look and gave his opinion. Since you are taking the acting department, you can recite a script. Of course, the script must be far more than a thousand words. You can recite as much as you can."

   "Okay," Xiao Yao immediately took the script and read it.

   "Memorize a thousand words in a minute, Xiao Yao is really so good?" Nina also asked Lin Qisan beside her in disbelief in a low voice.

"I don't know." Lin Qisan shook his head, "This guy has a good memory since he was a child, but it is true, and the more he grows up, the better his memory. But when it comes to remembering a thousand words in a minute, none of us had seen it before. I saw him do it. I only know that the memory of a few of us is not even half that of him. This is one of the reasons why we sometimes call him an evildoer."

   "Monster?" Nina asked in surprise, "Even you call him that?"

"Yes," Lin Qisan nodded, "In the beginning, the adults learned how to call him from netizens, and our children learned from adults. Later, when we grew up and became sensible, we found that this name describes him very appropriately, so we kept calling until now. right now."

   "Okay, time is up." Zhao Xinghua said, one minute soon.

  Xiao Yao immediately closed the script and returned it to Zhao Xinghua, and then said, “I also need to prepare for a multi-tasking performance before starting to recite it.”

   "Yes." Zhao Xinghua said according to the script, "As long as you don't read the script, you will write it down within a minute."

   Xiao Yao nodded, ran to the corner and moved two large and one small three sceneries to the middle of the field. He returned to the place where he stood in the team, carried his hug, and started to dig out things.

   "Four Treasures of the Study? This guy really listened to the suggestion to perform calligraphy during the third test." Teacher He looked at Xiao Yao and took out a few things, and couldn't help but remember a word he said casually during the second test.

  Xiao Yao laid out several pieces of rice paper on a large landscape block and smoothed them, pressed paperweights on both sides, and then put inkstones and brushes on them. Because the ink grinding on site was not suitable, Xiao Yao brought a bottle of ink and poured it directly into the inkstone. Then I took out the writing brush from the pencil case, stretched it into the water bottle to soak up the water, squeezed it dry, and placed it on the pen holder.

  After preparing for calligraphy, Xiao Yao took out a black square chessboard-like object from the bag and placed it on another large scene block, and connected it to the on-site audio equipment.

  There is no Chinese from the Four Treasures of the Study who don’t know. When Xiao Yao took these out and placed them on the scenery block, everyone at the scene knew that he was going to perform and write calligraphy on the spot. But not everyone at the scene knew the thing Xiao Yao placed on another piece of scenery.

"What is that?" the female examinee performing acrobatic jiu-jitsu asked Nina next to her, "connected to the speaker, the white squares and black dots are all buttons? Is that a musical instrument? "Through the performance just now, the candidates all know that Xiao Yao, Lin Qisan and Nina are together.

"Well, that's an electronic sound pad, which makes and plays electronic music." Nina explained to the girl around her in a low voice, "It's also a kind of musical instrument." She had seen Xiao Yao connect this thing to a laptop. I have played, so I know.

  "Damn, this kid really knows how to play. Playing pads at the exam site. Is this going to be a live DJ?" Lin Qisan shook his head and sighed.

   Actually speaking of instruments that can be played with one hand, Xiao Yao first thought of piano and electronic organ. But even the smaller electronic keyboards are a little too long. When playing, it is easy for the left hand to move on different key positions to drive the upper body to move and tilt, which affects or even interrupts the rhythm of the right hand writing, and it is impossible to play the chords and the main melody with one hand, making the played music relatively thin, so Xiao Yao simply chose this 30 cm square pad and used it to play a piece of electronic music live.

   "The difference between traditional Chinese calligraphy and trendy electronic music is too big, can he really do both while reciting?" The examiners' faces were also full of surprise. This kind of multi-tasking is much harder than playing two or three different instruments at the same time in the blind selection of "The Good Voice". Even if they are more knowledgeable, they have never seen anyone play this way in the examination room of the performance department.

Xiao Yao did not wait for Zhao Xinghua’s call to begin. He picked up the brush on the pen holder with his right hand, dipped the ink in the inkstone, hung his wrist above the upper right corner of the rice paper, and pressed a round outside of the pad with his left hand. With the small black button, an electronic melody came out of the speaker.

Xiao Yao's right hand began to write on the rice paper, and his left fingers began to rhythmically tap on the 36 small square buttons arranged in 6 by 6 in the middle of the pad. At the same time, his mouth also began to recite: " "Eagle Strikes the Sky", the third draft. Screenwriter, Yu Yonghua. The first scene, in the driving bus, in the evening, heavy rain..."

  The sound of the live sound was not very loud, and the rhythmic electronic music sound did not conceal the extremely penetrating sound made by Xiao Yao using the "three-cavity resonance". At the same time, several examiners who were sitting close to each other clearly saw Fangzheng's calligraphy appearing on the rice paper. Although it is not clear what is written because of the distance and angle, at least it can be seen that the handwriting is arranged very neatly. This piece of music is considered a semi-finished product. The background melody was played by Xiao Yao in advance, but the extremely rhythmic electronic drum beat sounded with Xiao Yao's fingers jumping on the pad.

Xiao Yao's right hand writing maintains a relatively fixed speed, but when his left hand strikes on the pad, there is a noticeable rhythm change. The rhythm of reciting the script with an accent on his mouth is also different from that of calligraphy and performance. It looks very consistent. This is the sense of division where three people are doing three different things.

   "Oh my God, it's really going on at the same time!" Everyone on the scene looked at Xiao Yao in the middle of the venue with a devilish expression.

  Xiao Yao continued to perform his own performance without any distraction. When the script recitation came to the character's lines, Xiao Yao also imitated the tone of the character in the play, not just a simple and straight recitation. When the ink on his right hand was about to dry, Xiao Yao did not forget to stretch the pen into the inkstone to dip it in the ink. The left hand is not simply tapping on the small white square. When the music is played to a certain level, he will move the small round black button next to it in time to change the background melody.

"This tune is so good, it feels completely different from the electronic music that I heard in bars and nightclubs before." The people on the scene slowly recovered from Xiao Yao's multi-tasking shock, and began to pay attention to the specific content of Xiao Yao's performance. , "There is no sense of the noisy nightclubs, but a sense of ethereal and spaciousness."

"Have you heard Gong Chen sing "I can only accompany you here" and "Faded" on "Cool Electronic Music"? He wrote them." The vocal assistant behind the examiners exclaimed to the physical assistant who sighed. Said, "If you guessed it correctly, he should have written this song himself. I heard that he would come up with original new works every time he performed in public. It seems that this is true."

"I don't know what his calligraphy is about." Another teaching assistant said, "I heard that he used a modern poem written by himself called "Seeing and Not Seeing" when he took the second test of lines. In the previous "Bird and Fish", the two modern poems written by this little guy are also very good."

"I still think he has a great skill in memorizing lines." The assistant in charge of the lines said, "The script he is reciting now only takes a minute to memorize, and there is no time to ponder and think, but the dialogues he reads are basically all It matches the scenes and characters in the script. This memory is really terrifying!"

  The teaching assistants whispered and sighed, while the examinees who were watching were completely stupid. Now they are extremely grateful to Lin Qisan for his suggestion to put Xiao Yao in the end. If I had watched Xiao Yao's performance against the sky first, most of them would really be affected during the talent show.

  The examiners and teachers did not look stupid, but this kind of performance was the first time they had seen it in their lives, so they did not speak, and watched Xiao Yao's performance on the field with great enthusiasm.

  The time passed by one minute and one second gradually exceeded the three-minute time limit of the ordinary candidates for talent performances. Xiao Yao didn't stop, and none of the examiners who watched with great enthusiasm called to Xiao Yao to stop thinking of the length of time. As for the on-site teaching assistants and other test-takers, no one has the mind to pay attention to the question of test time at this time.

  Almost six or seven minutes have passed, which basically took twice as long as the average examinee, Xiao Yao finished playing the piece of electronic music, and then stopped with both hands and mouth.

Xiao Yao stood up, picked up the piece of rice paper that was already filled with block letters and brushes and showed it to the examiner teacher, then took a few steps forward and gently placed the piece of rice paper on the table in front of the examiners before returning it to the original one. The queen bowed to the examiners and teachers, indicating that his talent show had all ended.

   "It's great!" Zhao Xinghua did not rush to look at the piece of rice paper in front of him, but when Xiao Yao bowed, he couldn't help but clap his hands first.

   Zhao Xinghua took the lead, several examiners and teachers next to them, teaching assistants behind them, and other examinees who were on the sidelines also sent their heartfelt applause to Xiao Yao.

  The applause was getting louder and louder, and several candidates who were shocked to not know how to express their emotions even cheered loudly regardless of the discipline of the examination room.

   "Awesome!" Among these people, Lin Qisan is naturally the loudest.

  (End of this chapter)