BIODATA - COMPOSER

MUSICAL SKETCH

As a composer, Lin Hsin Hsin is a classically trained pianist and clarinetist.
She studied Musicianship, at 13, she topped the London-based Musicianship examination for that year in Singapore.

• May 2013, ETH Center, Singapore (world première)
  
• July 2008, Leewarden, The Netherlands
  
• July 2007, Zurich, Switzerland
  
• December 2006, Singapore (demo)
  
• September 2005, Pisa, Italy
  
• June 2003, Bourges, France
  
• September 2002, Lin's work was invited by Kunstradio Radiotopia acoustic network
  -- an artistic project commissioned by the 2002 Ars Electronica Festival and
  co-produced by ORF Kunstradio, Vienna to present her works in a live broadcast arts radio program.

IT & MUSIC

ISM




• Lin does not subscribe to analog or digital sound sampling
  
• From conceptualization to composing,
  from sound calibration to mastering,
  Lin is a firm believer in producing sound or music on a PC without a sound card
  and without any musical and midi instruments.

• Lin speaks about:
  the relationship between the modal idiom and the cadential patterns
  the language of mathematics, the calibration and speed of sound

In the beginning...

Lin has written programs to produce Minuets and Polonaise from the Anna Magdalena Suite
by Johann Sebastian Bach on her first IBM PC XT in 1985

Digital Music

Lin has composed more than 1,500 minutes of music since 2001. Her extensive repertoire includes:

• Contemporary classical music: symphonies, concertos, chamber music
• Classical crossovers: from Baroque to the 20th Century
• The Caribbean: preludio, salsa, margaritas, bongo-bongo, tropical-funk, dreamie groovie, diva, perfumado, panorama
• Jazz: fusion of subtly textured rock classical syncopation & neo-psychedelic art sound
• Percussion music: delights in rhythms of agogo, bells, blocks, wooden kettle drums, steel drums, tabala, tabor, tama, tambourine, tom-tom, tupan, tympani, vibrato effects of angklung, xylophone
• Sonic Age: an exotic blend of Digital Space music, Tropical Rainforest, Rush to Flush, Techno, WeatherCrisps and Animal Parade
  
• Pop songs including lyrics
• Digitally composed electroacoustics

Digital Sound

June 2006, Lin has created a virtual sound board to create sound and/or music interactively on the Web. She has successfully created a spectrum of sound in nature:


• rain forests, sound of water in many manifestation
  
• sound of wind traveling at different velocities and much more...

ART & MUSIC

Lin is not only inspired by music, she has composed music and painted music as an artist.
The 45 paintings in the “Abstraction in Music” Series (1986 -- 1987) is her interpretation of music on canvas, as she is moved by the music of great composers such as Handel (Water Music), Mozart (Jupiter Symphony) Franz Liszt (Rhapsodies dan l’espace), Vivaldi (Four Seasons ), Debussy (La Mer). In addition to the canvases, there are the paperworks subtitled “La Petite Séries” created with different techniques, an abstraction of audio-visually perceived images of the sound in music such as Musical Ornaments: Trill, Appoggiatura and Turn (Staccato) and sound in the universe like Woodpecker. As she once puts it:

“Music moves me like the awesomeness of the universe.
For me, music and the universe are synonymous; the one is the celebration of the other”  

See also:


• Lin's Biodata as a IT inventor
• Lin's Biodata as an artist
• Lin's Biodata as an poet