Wang Youdi's guqin performance "Candle" comes from the album "Music Book: Guqin - Wang Youdi".

The world's first AI-generated guqin song "Candle"

Composer: Music artificial intelligence AI interpretation (2021)

Score and Guqin: Wang Youdi

This piece is an original guqin piece that was refined and generated by the music artificial intelligence of the Central Conservatory of Music through deep learning of many ancient guqin pieces. The whole piece was organized and scored by Wang Youdi, and will be premiered in the world at Wang Youdi's Doctor of Guqin Graduation Concert on December 24, 2021.

Its name is inspired by one of the ancient Chinese mythical beasts, the candle dragon. According to the "Shan Hai Jing Dahuang Bei Jing": "Beyond the Northwest Sea, to the north of Chishui, there is Zhangwei Mountain. There is a god, a human face, a snake body and a red body, and a straight eye is riding. Do not eat, do not sleep, do not rest, wind and rain are Ye, it is the nine shades of the candle, it is called the candle dragon.” Legend has it that the candle dragon has the power of the sun, illuminating the ghostly land. Warring States Qu Yuan also wrote in "Heavenly Questions": "Is there a good day? Where is the candle dragon?" Full of imagination of nature and the unknown.

The hole is dimly lit by candles, and even candles are bright. "Candle" illuminates the darkness and opens up the light; "Candle" has far-reaching insight and insight; "Candle" empowers human beings to explore the unknown...

The birth of Candle is the successful practice of artificial intelligence in the field of Guqin music, exploring and demonstrating the possibility of artificial intelligence creating Guqin music independently. "Candle" plans a new application scenario and implementation plan for the huge database of Guqin music, and opens a door that has never been opened for the future of Guqin music. It marked the beginning of a new era.