SHIH, Pei-Yu
SHIH, Pei-Yu
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Specializing in Composition and Musical art creation theory [incl. sound theatre, music and sound theatre, musical], Audio visual art, Performing arts. She received a PhD degree, soloist diploma, master degree in musical composition from UK, Germany, Taiwan. During her studies she obtained scholarships and was conferred over than 10 composition awards separately from Germany, Italy, Portugal, Taiwan, such as the 1st Prize of Musica Viva International Electroacoustic Music Composition Competition, Berlin-Rheinsberger Composition Prize, Weimar International Orchestra Composition Competition, WNMF International Electroacoustic Music Composition Competition Stuttgart, Sond'Ar-te International Composition Competition for Chamber Music with Electronics, …etc.
Her original musical works have been selected/invited by international electronic-/electroacoustic-/contemporary music festivals and conferences, performed over than 60 concerts in Asia, USA, Canada, and European countries, such as: ISCM World New Music Days [Korea, Germany, Sweden], Asian Composers League Conferences and Festivals [The Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand, New Zealand, Korea], International Electronic-/Electroacoustic Music Festivals/Conferences [Synthe'se Bourges, Inventionen Berlin, ICMF Seoul, IEMF Rome, JSEM/MSJ Nagoya, SMC Berlin, FIMPC Leeds,…etc.], International Contemporary Music Festivals [Gaudeamus Music week Netherlands, MaerzMusik Germany, IFCM Ireland, …etc.].
She has received international commissions including from Berlin Senate Department for Cultural Affairs and was invited as jury member for Project Funding for Serious Music and Sound Art Berlin as well as for a composition scholarship of Cite' International des Arts Paris. Of her works she has been portraited/interviewed/published by German, Taiwanese, Portuguese, French, Italian digital-/live-/printed media. Her musical thinking has been partly recorded by a dialog with German musicologist professor Rudolf Frisius, the article can be found by conference annual publication in 2003 by Institute of New Music and Musical Education Darmstadt, Germany.
She has integrated tradition, modern and computer music languages to develop her personal musical art creation system and has engaged in cross-disciplinary arts creation, interpreting and producing her own works that she transforms literature, philosophy and aesthetic meanings to musical construction. By structuring tone and sounds she creates narratives, shapes atmospheres, visual impressions, and theatrical tensions, to present experimentations of music creations in form, expression, organization, construction and variations, to reflex a multiple personal artistic style.
In year 2024, she received for her individual works 38 international Film/Design competition prizes [inclusive 25 pieces of the Best/Winner, 13 pieces of Silver/Bronze/Honorable Mention] from USA, Germany, France, India, Netherlands, Canada, by categories: Virtual Reality, Art Director, Web New Media Animation Short, Experimental Film, Animation Film, Original Score, Sound Design, Concept, Communication Design, Interactive Design,…etc.
Work outline
◼Instrumental music [1994-2011]
Chinese and western instruments: solo, chamber music, orchestra work, instrument(s) with digital mediaa
◼Digital music [2001-2017]
Electronic- and electroacoustic music, vocal with electronic music, spatial- and immersive sound field
◼Images and audiovisual works [2011-2020]
Digital image series, electronic- and electroacoustic series, songbook series, fairy tale, poetry set
◼Writings [2011-2021]
Handling plan and research report, paper, fiction, prose, lyric, poetry set, fairy tale
Scene III
2017
Scene I
2016/2024
Scene II
2016/2024
Songbook series
2012
Fairy tale [MA und AH]
2012
Milchstrasse
2010
Scene III
2017
Maerchenetueden
2010-2011
Ler SHI
1995| Title | Instrumentation | Year | Duration | NCAF-funded |
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| Qin Yue | Orchestra | 2006 | 7'21" |
| Title | Instrumentation | Year | Duration | NCAF-funded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Poetry set | Voice & electroacoustic/electronic music | 2012-2015 | 28'28" | |
| Darf ich dich zum Tanzen einladen? | Soprano & electronic music | 2012 | 0'21'' | |
| Fairy Tale [MA und AH] | Soprano [incl. story telling and singing] and electronic music | 2012 | Chinese version 48'40'' | |
| Gang | Soprano & electronic music | 2012 | 4'46'' | |
| Songbook series | Singer & electronic music | 2012 | 51'06" | |
| Cursive | Flute, soprano and violoncello | 2003 | 5'05'' | |
| Lieder ohne Wort | Accapella | 2000 | 8'15'' | |
| Strange head line | Mezzo soprano and piano | 1997 | 5'21'' |
| Title | Instrumentation | Year | Duration | NCAF-funded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Girasole | Trumpet, tube, two percussion groups, piano, voice, guitar, violoncello | 2011 | 34'05" | |
| Compress | Di, liuqin, pipa, yangqin, percussion, erhu | 2009 | 7'30" | |
| Quatet | Four bassons | 2008 | 2'06" | |
| Mono | Panflute, bassrecorder, qanun, perc., erhu, viola da gamba, di | 2006 | 7'30" | |
| Inclining | Four percussion groups | 2005 | 3'21'' | |
| Entstanden Zerbrochen | Flute, clarinet, guitar, piano, percussion, violin, violoncello | 2004 | 8'55'' | |
| Augenblick | Accordion and violoncello | 2002 | 3'19'' | |
| Cao Qie | Di, sheng, liuqin, pipa, yangqin, percussion | 2002 | 5'25'' | |
| Mountain Ghoust | Di, percussion, harp, violoncello | 1997 | 6'17'' | |
| Si Ming | Pipa, liuqin, sanzian, yangqin | 1997 | 13'44" | |
| Turn Round | Two yangqings and percussion | 1997 | 5'21" | |
| …Besides | Pipa and piano | 1996 | 12'33'' | |
| Gu Yuan | Di, huqin, pipa | 1995 | 6'20" | |
| Ler SHI | Di, pipa, sanxian, yangqin, huqin | 1995 | 8'10'' | |
| Strange Land | Flute, oboe, basson, yangqin, percussion and stringtrio | 1995 | 12'30" | |
| Zhao Sheng | Five percussion groups | 1995 | 10'06" | |
| Reincarnation | Bass-flute, bass-clarinet and piano | 1994 | 22'05" |
| Title | Instrumentation | Year | Duration | NCAF-funded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maerchenetueden | Piano | 2010-2011 | 7'57'' | |
| An etude | Flute | 2005 | 2'13" | |
| Ich singe allein | Violin | 2005 | 6'05" | |
| Tintenfarbe | Clarinet | 2003 | 7'10" | |
| Die Huo | Yangqin | 1994 | 4'21" |
| Title | Instrumentation | Year | Duration | NCAF-funded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Electroacoustic and electronic music series | Multichannel audio | see note | 115'30" | |
| Escape | Electronic music | 2015 | 1'29'' | |
| Waiting | Electronic music | 2012 | 3'30'' | |
| Dream's Scene | Multichannel audio | 2012 | 1'16'' | |
| Dreieckige Beziehungen | Multichannel audio | 2012 | 5'41'' | |
| Flying I-IV | Multichannel audio | 2012 | 7'38'' | |
| Bird | Multichannel audio | 2010 | 3'54'' | |
| Milchstrasse | Multichannel audio | 2010 | 11'35'' | |
| F's 65 | Multichannel audio | 2009 | 1'05'' | |
| Red Chamber | Multichannel audio | 2009 | 7'41'' | |
| Abrupter Abbruch | Contrabass and 6 loudspeakers | 2008 | 6'54'' | |
| Slow Slow Tune | Flute, clarinet, piano, violin, violoncello and 8 loudspeakers | 2008 | 9'00" | |
| Gedicht vom Wind des Herbstes | Saxophone, piano, percussion and 8 loudspeakers | 2007 | 10'23'' | |
| Fall, aus der Zeit | Multichannel audio | 2006 | 9'55'' | |
| Liu An Huwa Ming | Multichannel audio | 2006 | 7'58'' | |
| Zwei singende Klarinette | Clarinet and multichannel audio | 2006 | 10'00" | |
| I am another yourself | Pipa, light and 4 loudspeakers | 2005 | 11'58'' | |
| Schein und Sein II | Computer piano, a pianist and multichannel audio | 2005 | 5'30'' | |
| Blume Hand Laecheln | Percussion and 6 loudspeakers | 2004 | 11'25'' | |
| Brennede Gedanken | 4 loudspeaker | 2004 | 9'35'' | |
| Schein und Sein I | Computer piano and a pianist | 2002-2003 | 5'05'' | |
| CHI-ruhende Kraft, Bewegungen | 8 loudspeakers | 2001-2002 | 13'05'' | |
| …Ausserdem | 8 loudspeakers | 2001 | 13'27'' | |
| Etuede | Boesendorfer computer piano | 2001 | 8'08'' | |
| Taipei Sketch | Voice, instrumental occupation, tape and video [Y.M.] | 2001 | 7'58'' |
| Title | Instrumentation | Year | Duration | NCAF-funded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scene III | Video and audiovisual media [9 phrases] | 2017 | 7'47" | |
| Scene I | Video and audiovisual media [19 / variable numbers of movements] | 2016/2024 | 28'28" / varied lengths | |
| Scene II | Video and audiovisual media [4 movements] | 2016/2024 | 9'16" | |
| Fairy tale [MA und AH] | Video and audiovisual media [19 stories, 16 musical bridges ] | 2012 | 48'43" | |
| Poetry set | Video and audiovisual media [19 pieces] | 2012 | 25'36" | |
| Songbook series | Video and audiovisual media [10 series] | 2012 | 51'36'' |
* link to " NCAF online Archive of Grant Fruitages "website (in Chinese)
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