The Sounds of Tomorrow: China's Electronic Instrument Renaissance | Yukes 玉刻 | TEDxZizhu Park

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Yukes 玉刻 uses an electronic organ to play “the sound of the future.” He расскаnts how synthesizers have found new life within Chinese culture—moving from imitating the sounds of traditional instruments to creating entirely new auditory languages. As he puts it: “Technology shouldn’t replace tradition; it should become an extension of it.” In his eyes, every synthesized waveform is a rebirth of culture. Today, Chinese musicians are using technology to reshape a “sonic ethnography,” allowing tradition and the future to move forward side by side through electronic resonance. Yukes is a commercial video producer, multi-instrumentalist, and expert in electronic music equipment. Active at the intersection of traditional Chinese instruments and contemporary electronic music equipment, they have been instrumental in the development of "Chinawave" and the growth of the electronic music production equipment industry in mainland China. With a background in commercial documentary video production,

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