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Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Composer’s soundtrack from track sounds


BEIJING: Anyone who has ever wondered what sound world champion Liu Xiang makes when he starts a high hurdles race will find out when Chinese composer Tan Dun’s music for the Beijing Olympics is unveiled next year.

Hunan-born Tan Dun, best known for his Oscar-winning score for the movie “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon”, intends to incorporate sounds made by China’s three best known Olympians in “organic music” he is composing for next August’s Games.

“(I will use the) sounds of water splashes made by diver Guo Jingjing, balls hit by basketball player Yao Ming and the race start of hurdler Liu Xiang,” Tan Dun told Xinhua news agency at the 9th China Shanghai International Arts Festival. – Reuters

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