BIODATA - COMPOSER

       

      MUSICAL SKETCH

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

        In September 2005, Lin has performed in Pisa, Italy, Bourges, France in June 2005 and 2004
        In 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 and MUSIC

        What's New

        As Lin does not subscribe to analog or digital sound sampling,
        she created a virtual sound board to create sound and/or music interactively on the Web, in June 2006.
        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, just to name a few.

        In the beginning...

        Contrary to the common belief, the mathematically and computer science trained Lin is a firm believer
        in producing music on a PC without a sound card. from conceptualization to composing,
        from sound calibration to mastering. As such, all her digital compositions are completely created and realized
        without 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. This is not surprising
        as she has written programs to produce Minuets and Polonaise from the Anna Magdalena Suite
        by Johann Sebastian Bach on her first IBM PC XT as early as 1985

        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 that protrays a fusion of subtly textured rock classical syncopation & neo-psychedelic art sound
      • Percussion music that 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

      ART and 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 as an information technologist
        Lin as an artist
        Lin as a poet