雖然有點遲，已經是台灣的大年初一晚上了，但我還是想以這一首我最近完成的錄音祝福我親愛的家人、老師前輩、老朋友新朋友、一拍即合的朋友、點頭之交的朋友、朋友的朋友、合作夥伴，不管了反正就是正在看文的每一個你，新年快樂！
這首曲子是李斯特以佩托拉克的十四行詩創作的聲樂作品，這首錄音是鋼琴演奏版本，由張斯宇演奏。佩托拉克14行詩總共有三首，這是第三首，裡面敘述著糾結又毀天滅地熱烈的愛情，我想你們完全能從錄音中聽到。
斯宇是一位音樂性與控制力都非常好的演奏者，我記得錄音的時候，因為訂不到演奏廳，我們便選擇了音樂院的錄音室，錄音室的琴以及空間聲響並不那麼理想，但是在錄音討論的過程中除了我嘗試不同的麥克風架法，斯宇也總是能立刻改變演奏方法，已達到我們想在在錄音中呈現的聲響。
當天原本預計花4個小時完成，不過後來錄音室時間允許，我們就邊錄邊剪，大約花了7-8小時，兩個人從下午兩點工作到晚上10點，晚餐也沒有吃，但是這個過程中充滿了激盪與火花，非常令人享受，也讓我學到很多，關於鋼琴的觸鍵演奏與發聲之間的關聯性，這些知識讓我得以以及結合所學，更嚴謹的考慮風格與收音方法以及意念上的空間呈現。
我認為斯宇完全可以稱得上一位專業的演奏者，因為在錄音的過程中，我已經不需要花心思注意錯音、拍子、強弱，而是把焦點放在這個句子的線條是不是連貫的夠揪心？這幾顆音的空間距離需要再遠一些嗎？低音的力道是否要再圓潤或者這個地方需要剛烈？這個收尾的音色是懸在空中或是結束。
我很感激今年得到各式各樣合作的機會，讓我能在實作中成長，在此要再一次送一千萬個感謝給所有的合作夥伴，讓我們繼續一起做出能觸動人心的音樂。
最後，簡單說一下為什麼選這首曲子拜年，實在是因為我太愛它了，裡面的糾結與千迴百轉，是每一個藝術工作者需要的養分，長長的人生中，希望我們都能輕易地感受到這些情緒，同時也擁有地將它們轉換成美不勝收的東西的能力。希望大家享受這首曲子，並且在新的一年也能繼續用這樣熱烈的愛創造更多為人所愛的事物。
[Adventure in Birmingham] Happy Lunar New Year!
I decided to present to all my family, dearest friends, college mates, friends of friends and whoever you are reading this! Happy lunar new year with one of my recent recording Liszt S.104 Sonette del Patraca. Performed by Siyu Zhang
Siyu is a professional pianist that has the ability to drive the piano within her musical emotion and playing skills. By that I mean she is able to control and adjust her performance immediately to produce sound that we want to present in the recording. It was a pleasant session that I learned a lot from her about how she adjusted to conquer the limitation of instrument and space without ideal reverb. She also explained how she does to me which is really helpful for me as an engineer to learn practical sides of playing. This gives me more knowledge to consider the relevance between music style, miking techniques and sound image.
I also considered she a professional performer non of the issues bother us: wrong note, incorrect rhythm or the dynamics. But we drew attention on the musical context and the image of the sound. It was truly a jolly recording session although we worked from 14.00 to 21.30 without any break!
I'm so grateful to have many collaborations as an engineer this year, which gives me loads of opportunities to learn from practical session and from professional performers of different instruments.
Very end, I'd like to explain a bit why I choose this piece to wish everyone a happy new year. Since there are many artist or people work for movie, music and art industry on my facebook. I found that we all need lots of passion (like you will hear in this piece) to do what we love. And the complexity in this piece, those suspended, solely and desperate are emotions we embrace. I wish all of us have the ability to transform them into something, or a motivation. We ought to polish what we've got and create something as touching as something touched us before in life.
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