Miss Bach's Crab Canon

That is the wind from eternity——

"η δ' ιρηξ ω? αλτο κατ'

(beneath the snow-covered ridge)

Ουλυμπου νιφοεντο?,

(He flies like a falcon)

τευχεα μαρμαιροντα παρ' Ηφαιστοιο φερουσα.

(A shining thing shines in his hand)"

She was chanting, using a language neither Gao Yiyu nor Joannis had ever heard.

It is neither loose nor tight, and has a wonderful rhythm.

The voice of the goddess of laurel, like the first girl in the world, is pure and sweet. If you close your eyes, you can see the beauty in white gauze, listening to the stream by the water.Every time she speaks, it seems to be politely rejecting the suitor named Silence, but it doesn't embarrass him.

Daphne controlled the timing just right, and controlled the rhythm under the rhythm with incomparable precision.

So much so that when the final ending ended, Gao Yiyu was stunned for a few seconds, subconsciously thinking "the player is broken, the network is stuck".Because after such a beautiful chanting, there must be music gushing out, right?And there is no doubt that it is the kind of music that can make Gao Yiyu take sick leave and listen to it repeatedly at home all day long.

Unfortunately not.

There is only blankness, long blankness.

She pressed end recording and sighed softly.

"How is it?" Daphne came over, "Let's listen."

"and many more."

Gao Yiyu beckoned to another girl in the recording studio, because she had been told to "Keep quiet when Daphne is recording", so she, who didn't know when it would end, was still covering her mouth and looking aside at every turn.

It wasn't until Joannis ran over excitedly that Gao Yiyu switched the sound output to the monitor speakers so that everyone could hear it.

——The voice of God recorded with a top-notch microphone.

Gao Yiyu listened with relish, and so did Yoannis.

Only Daphne immediately blushed, her limbs and expression twisted at the same time, as if there was some kind of awkwardness between the muscles and bones, and they were fighting inside.

Because she was listening to herself reciting poems.Moreover, it is an extremely full-feeling and extremely focused poetry recitation.

When you read it, no one who listens will have any problems.Only if the person involved comes down to listen to the recording by himself, it will cause an extremely terrible sense of shame.Even the goddess, the well-informed and thousands-year-old goddess, is already screaming with unknown meaning, looking for the seam.

"Hmm...it's really beautiful, I've never heard this kind of chanting...but I can feel the strong charm that surpasses human beings...as expected of Daphne. But..."

"Indeed, this language should be a language that existed in history but has died, right? Just hearing this kind of unheard-of poetry will already make you feel excited, it's authentic again, and the voice is so nice... It's really nice. But..."

Their compliments were not intentional, but purely rational analysis.

Even so, these compliments became knives, stabbing Daphne who was already extremely ashamed, making her even more embarrassed.This is the first step that all creators must experience, opening their hearts for people to watch.

The more painstaking efforts, the more emotionally invested, and the more sincere the work, the more shameful it will be for the creator when viewed by others.

Because—works often come from the inner voice of the creator.

Often, creators are introverts, and human beings are distorted creatures who close their hearts to others.Showing your heart to others is against human instinct and emotional tone.

It takes a lot of courage to cross this hurdle and continue to create with sincerity.

But now, there are other things to settle besides Daphne's shame.

"There are noises."

This is what Gao Yiyu and Joannis noticed.

The M251 microphone is so sensitive that it can record vibrations almost perfectly.It also means that all flaws will be displayed honestly.

"Here." Gao Yiyu played back, "There is a slight tooth sound."

That's a problem that almost everyone makes, and it's something you don't realize until you're in the studio.

Tooth-to-teeth collisions can make a recording downright obnoxious.

When the tuner is recording, it will be very uncomfortable to hear the sibilance, because it is avoidable.

Excellent singers will not make noises, and singers who make noises will often not correct this, but will ask the tuner to cover it up with technical means.

It is very annoying to wear monitor headphones, play the tooth sound repeatedly, and then adjust the audio curve a little bit to cover it up.Therefore, the evaluation of the tuner is the highest recognition of a singer, not from the market and the audience.

Daphne has more questions.

An existence like Joannis who stood at the apex of human history, of course, would not miss the other party's mistakes.

"Daphne's lips should still have a little bit of saliva, so when she closed her lips and opened them again, there were some subtle clicks..."

"Really." Gao Yiyu observed the curve, amplified the volume of those noises, and played them through the stereo.

Joannis added: "There is also the sound of breathing. Some singers and genres don't pay attention to covering up the sound of breathing. This is also the seasoning of music, but here it is pure noise..."

And so, at the outset, the recording effort was horribly deadlocked.

This sound of more than ten seconds pulled a goddess from the position of god to the mortal world, causing her beautiful appearance, always confident and dignified temperament, as well as the floor and her small fists to suffer a serious blow.

But those who can pass this level are the lead singers that the band really needs.

After just one minute, Daphne's wailing had stopped.

"——I will re-record." She stood up, as if shed tears of blood.

Her hair was disheveled and trembling, but her eyes looked like it was the weekend, and she finally wanted to play a game on vacation, but the phone was forced to push a 6GB update package by the system, and the system was stuck during installation, and had to be reset Factory settings, and then re-download the update package for primary school students.

Her courage was burning, and she dragged herself exhausted to the microphone.

It was an awe-inspiring aura, and no one could make a sound to dissuade her.

Apart from--

"The second time, start recording after counting down tens of seconds."

In this way, it was repeated ten times back and forth, and the 13-second three-line poem can be called the perfect end of the recording.

That was a remnant poem that symbolized the collapse of civilization, and it was also a fleeting flash of a dead language in modern times. Although Daphne's recitation was beautiful and her voice was so dreamy, she lacked a sense of cruelty.

Later, because of constant mistakes, self-confidence collapse, and endless shame... it is very cruel to read.

"Now, it's your turn." Daphne snatched the chair, panting, and looked at Gao Yiyu and Ioannis, "I will pick out all your noises and small mistakes, and play them back loudly for you."

Cruelty pervaded the hallowed recording studio.

It can even turn lovers against each other.

"...Jo...Joannis...You first...I've been recording for a long time, and I'm a little tired."

"No... I think you're in better shape, I'll bring your guitar here..."

"No, no, your piano is in the recording studio, and I'll help you set up the microphone."

In the end, they decided to solve it in the fairest way in the world, rock paper scissors.

Thus, Gao Yiyu was easily defeated...

……

Before the recording started, Gao Yiyu's proposal to use chestnut shells for recording was regarded as a reserved opinion. Maybe they could come up with a better way, so they decided to record others first.

That's the beauty of music production, being able to break things down and do different stages at different times, only to have them turned into complete pieces by the sound mixer at the end.

Now, it was Gao Yiyu's turn to suffer.

The self-made door panel electric guitar weighing nearly four kilograms was inserted into the tube speaker, and after the fader and reverb unit were connected, Daphne prepared three microphones for Gao Yiyu.

Two of them are placed in front of the speaker, as if a leader is delivering an important speech.The other microphone is placed in the far corner of the recording studio to collect the sound waves that spread to the edge and make a natural edge. This is a very classic and easy-to-use recording method.

Gao Yiyu sighed.

"—Ten seconds!" Daphne excitedly issued instructions.

The sacred recording studio, really participating in the recording of the album, life is really like a dream, I didn't expect this day to come without knowing it...

Gao Yiyu was sitting on a wooden chair, with his familiar electric guitar on his left leg, and the straps were tight enough.

She closed her eyes and didn't pay attention to the countdown. She just used these few seconds to think about herself.

I don't really remember when I started getting into real music... and I don't really remember who I was first obsessed with.Because she went too far afterwards, what she heard at the beginning is so superficial and clichéd now.It's just that the feeling of liking them at that time was very pure.

Gao Yiyu recalled this kind of purity.

That was also the beginning of her learning musical instruments and music theory...

A familiar feeling emerged in my heart little by little, yes...that pure feeling...

"Three seconds!"

In fact, it has always been there.

Whenever I find a new good band, a wonderful new album, that kind of pure heart will flow out as always.Only music is an art that can be enjoyed without any sense of guilt. As long as it is pure music, the heart of appreciation will not deteriorate.

"Two seconds!"

Now, it's up to me to convey this purity to the world, to shock people's hearts.

She picked up the pick and everything was so familiar.

She opened her eyes, and after being slightly dazzled, she saw the frets on the piano and the strings in excellent condition.

Her left hand pressed the chord position, and the pick of her right hand waved toward the world——

"Wait!" Daphne yelled.

Gao Yiyu almost didn't fall.

"...Fuck, why interrupt me at this time?"

"Take off your clothes for me!"

"... um... um?! What?"

Daphne trotted, came over with small steps, put her feet on her feet, and touched Gao Yiyu's clothes.More specifically, a jacket.As soon as she got started, Gao Yiyu discovered the problem. The material of the coat would rub against each other with the movement, and there would be subtle noises.

If it is at home, in order to avoid disturbing the people, in fact, all electric guitarists plug their headphones into the speaker and use this to listen to their own performance.This habit does cause some details to be overlooked.

Gao Yiyu obediently took off his coat and only wore a small vest. Fortunately, there are girls here, so it's not too much of a disadvantage.

Daphne checked again to make sure there was nothing that could make noise, and then returned to her position to count down.Gao Yiyu couldn't get back to the state of mind just now, but now it's not bad, relaxed and happy, and she has already memorized the score written by Joannis.

"start!"

The pick meets the strings.

That is a set of rapid changes of odd and even beats, which is the melodic part.On the acoustic piano sound with only a slight reverberation, it is very clear.

Gao Yiyu discovered the strangeness of this set of melodies when he played it himself.If you use the most common distortion tone of electric guitar, this kind of fast switching sound shape will have a weird sense of hearing, it will be between rhythm guitar and melody guitar, and there is no aesthetic feeling.

But with an acoustic guitar, it loses the grain and complexity of the distortion, and the lightness and brilliance of the strings, which turns it into a sweet and strange melody that is exceptionally catchy.

The only problem is...

The difficulty is so high...

Unknowingly, this reminded Gao Yiyu of a past event——

When I was learning the piano, the difficulty of playing Joannis's fugues, well-tempered pieces, etc. was so difficult that I wanted to travel back in time. I begged her not to write these. Now, that damn feeling is coming again, making people suspicious Why haven't my hands gone crazy yet?

But... there are differences too.

That is, when she plays the wrong note, she will smile at you very happily.

106. Refresh before watching!

The melody that the guitar is responsible for is not long, but its phrase arrangement even made Gao Yiyu think of the word "anti-humanity".

It is not the kind of speed playing that pursues extreme speed, and the playing skills used are at most limited to string picking and tapping.

If you only look at the score, even Gao Yiyu, who has played electric guitar for nearly ten years, has studied music theory in depth, and has a wealth of experience, has not noticed its horror.

I don't know what instrument was in Joannis's mind when writing these notes, so that it can be so aggrieved.Yes, like all her previous songs—

At first glance, it is not too difficult, but in fact, music contains a very profound rationality and logic. It can even be said that the composer himself has his own set of thinking about everything. Understand her rationally first, otherwise those extremely reasonable passages will sink the hands of mortals into the mud.

This is not playing the piano, but doing math problems.

Putting it on the entire score, the opening melody only lasts about 20 seconds, but it took Gao Yiyu 10 minutes to finally be able to play it smoothly.