compositions
Music for China related Media Productions:
These samples were created for different publishers and clients. Musicians are UK based as well as musicians from mainland China. If you interested in licensing any of these tracks please contact CPP Music Productions.
Slow, soft, gentle.. (9 tracks):
Mid-tempoed (8 tracks):
Fast (3 tracks):
Others (5 tracks):
ARC Music Chinese New Year Music Project
Chinese New Year Music:
“Celebration”, “Lion Drum”, “Fireworks”, “Jubilation”,
Sample Clips: (play 50 seconds only)
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra Jazz Fusion Collaboration Project
Sample clips (from live performance)
LCI Time Pirate Project
Commissioned by LCI productions to compose music for their water screen movie production for Tang Paradise Theme Park in Xian China.
Kung Fu Chaos – East Meets West style music for Sony Game, In cooperation with Bob & Barn Limited.
ARC Music CD Production projects
The Art Of Chinese Harp
Classical Folk Music From China:
“Dynasty”, “Happy Maid”, “Dream Till Tomorrow”, “Bamboo Dance”,
Sample Clips:
“Xiao Music at Midnight.
NESTA (National Endowment of Science, Technology and the Arts) Fellowship Global Musical Collaboration Network Project Three years of research, development of Global Musical Collaboration Network with a focus on the link up of China to the West.
Online music collaboration with musicians around the global. For more information visit: www.jamwith.us
Sample Clips: New game to play, So long Doozy:
East Meets West Project – Using the latest Internet and digital recording technology, first time to bring musicians together from China and the UK, to compose new music online in realtime. Live connection and composition on Chinese New Year Day 2002, and live performance at the Roadmender, Northampton.
BskyB Relaunch Project – An unmissable display of traditional Chinese drumming with a contemporary content accompanied with spectacular dragon dance and contemporary dance.
BBC World Service Chinese Section Interview:
Wang Shunxin CD2 Project
Olive Trees – Rearrangement and recording of traditional Chinese tune – Included in Red Hot Sun CD
Sea Waves – Rearrangement and recording of traditional Chinese tune – Included in Red Hot Sun CD
New Music for UK Acrobatic Company. Composing a new range of music that brought a new dimension to the acrobatics live performances.
Sample Clips: Dragon Dance – Music for UK acrobatic Company
BBC World Service Chinese Service Title music – title music for the Chinese broadcast service, Combination of Chinese traditional instruments and computer synthesis music.
Year of the Artist – Artist in Residence Project
New piece of music by retrieving information, thoughts and influences from the users of a Residence for the Elderly. Combination of Chinese traditional instruments and computer digital audio.
Sample Clips: Intergeneration Project – Working with Chinese elderly in a new residential project
1990s
China Star – Chinese acrobatic company music CD project: “China Dragon”, “Cylinder-Act”, “Pyramid of Stars”, “Magic”.
BBC World Service Chinese Section – Title music for “100 years history of China”, “China Real”.
BBC World service Chinese Section: Millennium Song
Chinese Intergenerational Project – in co-operation with Sound It Out Community Music and the Q-Lorc Centre. Devised new vocal and percussion music with adults from the Birmingham Chinese Community Centre. Working closely with Crush Music. The finished composition was performed at the opening ceremony of the Q-Lorc Centre.
UK Chinese Acrobatic Company Music Project – “Lady Maria”, “Lazy Hours”, “Walking Elephant” etc.
Chinese traditional music CD projects:
Wang Shunxin CD Project
Xu Pingxin CD Project.
Sample Clips: Sunset – Rearrangement of Traditional Chinese Tune – included in Xu Pingxin CD
China Floods Appeal Project – “Rebuild the Great Wall” Chinese pop song composition.
Chinese Pop song “Feeling” – sang by Yanwen
“The Horse and The Buffalo” Project (At the Institute of Contemporary Arts – London).
Queen Elizabeth Hall Concert, “The Sound of Heavenly Bell” Project. In collaboration with the Grand Union Orchestra. Compositions include “The War – the opening”, “The Sound of Heavenly Bells”, “The Return of the Dead”.
Sample Clips(live recording): The Return of the Death, The War.
Peking Brothers – Zhao Zhen Ren, CD project.
Far Eastern Arts CD Project – Combined traditional Chinese folk songs and synthesis.
Sample clips: The Earth Of Our Mother Land
Compositions combining western and Chinese style together: “The Dynasty”.
“Happy Maid”
Computer and Synthesis Music- “Over The Hill”, “The Water”, “Dream Till Tomorrow”. – Performed live by Far Eastern Arts and the Grand Union Orchestra.
Sample Clips: Dream Till Tomorrow (live recording)
Anthem for Nottingham Chinese Lion Club.
Computer and Synthesis music, “A Liar”.
“The Window” (1st Movement) – for Huddersfield College Orchestra.
Computer and Synthesis Music: “Oriental Message”.
“Sweet Ketchup” – a jazz piece for Huddersfield Technical College Jazz Chamber Ensemble.
“Trio for Flute, Piano, and Cello” – for Huddersfield College Chamber Ensemble.
1980s
Anthem for Xinghai Music University (Guangdong) – “The song of Xinghai”.
Male Choir “A Small River”.
China Centre TV Station “Fuji” Advertising Music Awards (1989).
Songs for the first Guangdong County “Campus Songs Competition” Concert,
Duet – “The Love of Students”;
Female Choir – “Plant a Tree When You Graduate”;
Tenor Solo – “Campus Path”; etc
String Quartet “Thoughts” – for Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra.
Song “That’s a Dream” – Top ten of the Guangdong Radio Station Song Competition.
“The Yellow Land” – album Project combining Chinese Classical Film Music with Western style.
Various “Title Music”, “Jingle Music” and Advertisement music for Guangdong Radio Station.
Sample Clips:
Piano solo “The Leisure Village” (Three movements).
Song “The River of Shenzhen” – Published in the Shenzhen Daily Newspaper, and widely sung by singers in southern China.