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About 5 years ago I composed the theme music for China's international television network, CCTV-9 (English language, produced in Beijing). I composed the synth tracks on Pro Tools here, then took the tracks to the large studio at the network in Beijing and transfered them to a Sony digital machine. They provided me with an orchestra for the news theme, and as I was conducting the string section, with the Chinese musicians sawing away like their lives depended on it, I had a real epiphany. A mere 35 years ago these musicians could have been killed or exiled for merely possessing these instruments. Now here they were playing the theme music to their international news network, written by a western composer no less. I still get chills when I think about it.
-R
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