About Music
With three other members in January 2019, we formed the band Slip to promote critical thinking via popular music. We wish to break disciplinary boundaries with music.
I am the Keyboard player (including piano, electronic keyboard, MIDI and Melodica), supporting vocal and lyricist. While the bandleader Yunlong is a composer with conservatory of music training, the other two members Ling Tang and Alex are Sociologist/Artist from Oxford University.
We wrote the theme song Cyber-Nocturne for China Science and Technology Museum. The masterpiece "Isabella" has received more than 999+ hits on QQ Music's online platform.
In 2020, I published the historical novel "An Odyssey" with the theme song of the same name and received high hits.
In 2021, I published the musical fantasy novel "A Scroll of the Sea and the Sky" with five original songs and the album of the same name.
My Latest Performances
Isabelle
Isabelle is a bosa nova love song.
It is composed and produced by Yunlong and lyrics is written by Lucia Luo Xu.
We did the finale performance in the Oxford New Year Gala 2019, at Oxford Town Hall.
Dream of Science
Dream of science is a Rock/ Electronic music inspired by silkpunk.
All band members wrote the lyrics collectively while the bandleader was the composer and producer.
In Oct 2019, We performed for a consecutive week during the National Day holiday for the China Science and Technology Museum event Nocturne of Science in Beijing. Dream of Science is the theme song about posthuman symbiosis for the event. The event is reported by multiple media including sohu news, gov.cn and etc.
Snow and Water
Kunqu Opera artists will be invited to create works of sound art in collaboration with composers, which, based on the "water mill" tune of Kunqu Opera representing Chinese lyrical traditions and classic aesthetic paradigms combined with samples of natural sounds, creates multi-species kinship in the post-human era.
Co-artists: Shi Xia Ming施夏明, Tiange Zhou, Lucia Luo Xu
City in the rain 雨打亂了電流
City in the Rain is Rock/ Post-Rock/ Electronic song about posthuman queer love.
The song and its analysis is included as a chapter in Nine Cities, Millions of Futures edited by Cixin Liu （劉慈欣）, Lucia Luo Xu（吟光）et al. Beijing: China Development Press.
In short, it is a posthuman queer love story between a human singer and a cyborg singer. Through the song, we imagine a Harawayian gender utopia and wish to question the boundary between human and cyborg, organic and inorganic as well as eternity and temporality.
Emotion Alchemist
An audio art recital of Lucia Luo Xu's novel of the same name.
The spiritual life of immigrants in the modern city, a kind of drifting without a home, a dilemma between integration and non-integration. Hong Kong itself has no roots, and both integration and non-integration will eventually fall into the vortex of high capitalism, blurring the dividing line between chip and emotion.
Lyrics: Lucia Luo Xu
Composer: Yun Long, Xiao Zhi
Sing: Lucia Luo Xu, Tang Ling, Alex
No One
Pop-rock, adapted from modern poetry, performed in the October Poetry Sessions organised by the literary journal October Magazine, and included in the musical fantasy book A Scroll of the Sea and the Sky.
Lyrics/Sung by: Lucia Luo Xu
Composer: Yun Long
Paradox
A adaptation of Lucia Luo Xu's poem, which won an award at the 2nd Love in Lijiang - China Tanabata Poetry Festival. It was later published in the literary journal October Magazine and included in the musical fantasy book A Scroll of the Sky and Sea.
Lyrics/Chanting: Lucia Luo Xu
Composer: Yun Long
Singer: Alex
Redemption
Pop rock, music journal, collected in the long story "Hong Kong Drift Memory Puzzle".
Composer: Yun Long
Lyrics: Lucia Luo Xu
Vocalist: The Slip and Fall Band
An Odyssey
The theme song of the book of the same name of Yinguang's long historical novel An Odyssey expresses the author's admiration and longing for Wang Wei, a poet in the Tang Dynasty.
Using Chinese tunes and musical instruments, and through creative techniques such as character-based tunes, pentatonic scales, orchestration techniques, and mode comparisons, this dialogue between modern writer Lucia Luo Xu and ancient poet Wang Wei across time and space is facilitated.
Lyrics/Sung by: Lucia Luo Xu
Composer: Yun Long
Live in the Hill
The lyrics are based on the prose of Wang Wei, a poet of the Tang Dynasty, entitled "A Book with Pei Xiucai in the Mountains", which is included
the musical fantasy book A Scroll of the Sky and Sea.
Lyrics/Sung by: Lucia Luo Xu
Composer: Yun Long
