Between 4 strings

Sixie Hou
East China Normal University

The visible song of a lute

Inspired by the sound characteristics of the Chinese national plucked instrument, considering the characteristics of the plucked instrument’s graininess, discontinuity, crispness and fragility, and through the music’s prioritization and poetry content, the English translation of Chinese poetry is arranged to make the abstract. Personal music is converted into a readable and visible book to convey the individual’s understanding of music and poetry and re-interpretation, in order to achieve a combination of poetry and music to explore how to use the visual design of rhythm to make the English