musicians of old

Chapter 93 The Baton

He didn't dare to neglect, and tried his best to stimulate inspiration, looking for signs of dream testing in himself and the environment.

If it is in an ordinary astral world, if the dream test fails, it will only drift into other unknowing dreams again, but here is a shift, once the level of sobriety falls below a certain lower limit, the result is "lost".

The crazy burning of inspiration was exchanged for a brief sobriety. Fanning heard some echoes that seemed to come from the soles of his feet, like a clockwork that was about to run out of power but never stopped. He looked back, looked around, and kicked deeply. A shallow foot, like stepping on a pile of cotton.

When most of the inspiration was consumed, he suddenly discovered that the marble door of the church was floating in the void beside him. For some reason, he hadn't seen it before.

The border of the door had been blurred into the surrounding colors, and he stumbled into it.

Finally found the way back, looking at the altar of the church, Fanning took a deep breath with relief.

Inspiration is still burning slightly, but the crisis has passed, the restless hidden knowledge in my mind has become peaceful, and here I can control myself to fall out safely at any time.

Fan Ning spread out one hand, and the shape of the art museum key gradually took shape in it.

"This church can do it, as can ordinary dreams before, and can even absorb the inspiration from the shifting entrance. Why can't the key be concretized when we really reach the shifting layer?"

Is it a temporary ability problem, the imagination of my soul is not clear enough during the shift, or some other reason?
Fanning felt very strange at this time. In theory, if he could visualize in the shifting layer, it might help him fight against the rapid depletion of inspiration.

Speaking of the dreaded feeling of being out of inspiration…

He used to think that Benjamin from the Special Inspection Office was too timid, and he didn't dare to try to be promoted after being stable in the third rank for six years.

Now that the progress of my own music reproduction has advanced, the intensity of inspiration has also reached the promotion requirements, but after only a few steps, I feel the danger of the "Round Mountains", which is far beyond expectations compared to the "Wildlands"!

If you just entered, during that short waking moment, if you explore a few steps further, you may get lost!
However, risks and benefits coexist. This time I explored the "Huanshan Mountain" for the first time. In addition to gaining some hidden knowledge and inspiration, it seems... I have some strange feelings about this church that I have never experienced before?
Fanning remounted on the pulpit or stage of the church, and looked around.

Well, they are too empty.

For example, if you are a conductor on stage, you need at least one...

blah blah blah blah

Fan Ning walked slowly towards the front and center of the podium, and then imagined stepping a little higher——

Then he stepped onto a podium.

The light golden streamer condenses and spreads out. This is a brown square step, near the side of the stage, and there is an inverted U-shaped handrail.

Fanning stood on it, thought carefully, then stretched out his hand, and pulled out a baton from the slot next to the armrest.

He lowered his head and looked over and over again.

The thickness is moderate, the length is moderate, about thirty centimeters, the whole body is pitch black like ebony, but there are light golden spiral patterns, and the handle also has a ring of lighter colored hoops, which is as warm and delicate as ivory.

Since it felt so real, Fanning tried to wave it a few times, the softness and hardness are still moderate, light and textured.

He doesn't like a hard baton, because in order to avoid accumulating load on the wrist, he can only give up a lot of excessive movement range, but when the speed of the baton is too soft, it will bring afterimages, which will affect the delivery of accurate beats.

The position of the center of gravity of the handle is lower than the conventional node, which is just in line with my preference. I am used to keeping the handle at a slightly higher position for guidance during some Andante or Adagio passages.

So good, I like it very much.

Well, if there needs to be some instruments on stage.

The one I am most familiar with is of course...

Lightly tap the far end of the baton, and throw some invisible threads of inspiration closer to him, and a black grand piano slowly condenses into shape.

It lacks some detail at first, but gradually becomes clear as Fanning carefully recalls each structure.

There is an almost negligible cost of inspiration going on.

Fan Ning took a few steps and stood in front of the piano keyboard. He stretched out his hand, and quickly descended the chromatic scale from the high register, sweeping through 88 keys, as if he could do it faster than in reality.

The sound is also top-notch.

"Can there be more?" Fan Ning returned to the podium lightly in three steps at a time.

On the near left hand side and near right hand side, Fanning tried to visualize the violin and cello respectively. Under the shrouded golden mist, crooked outlines emerged in the air, with some messy fill colors inside.

The degree of realism is not as good as the graffiti of a 3-year-old child, but the inspiration they consume to maintain them is several times more than that of a piano.

He immediately withdrew these things, and then tried the flute, the harp, and the timpani in succession, with similar results, even if the piano was temporarily withdrawn, the result was not changed.

It seems that the only thing that is more realistic is the triangle iron?
Could it be that it must be a musical instrument that you are proficient in playing?Or at least need to be familiar with every detail?
Fanning frowned.

If this is the case, I can't concretize a symphony orchestra, and it is impossible to learn all the instruments one by one until I am proficient.

He temporarily put aside the question, turned to look at the audience.

The long mahogany chairs are divided by colonnades, and rows of candles are displayed on the porch.

Just a brief cruising in the "Huanshan Mountain" in Yiyong has given my spirit belt another residual sense of disobedience. In this state, the "Light of First Acquaintance" seems to have some changes...

There is no source of heat or cold in the vicinity of this dream church, but at this moment, with the help of the baton pointing at it, one bundle of his inspiration thread delimits the small area space of the candle wick, and the other reaches... the skylight of the dome outside.

Fanning didn't know if there was as much sun outside as in the waking world, but he thought the gleam from the skylight was from the Lord of Witnesses, the Unfallen Fire.

The two areas simulate the feeling of being connected to each other, not as clear as the endpoints of a line segment, but like a ray with no beginning and no end.

He imagined himself experiencing the distant light and heat, and pulling it back to the more defined wick.

The baton swayed gently to a beat, and the whole panned slowly, repeating the sense of connection and pulling, and continued panning.
bang -- bang -- bang --

In the church in the dream, the candles were lit one by one, and the golden flames illuminated the decorations of the thick curtains, and the shadows of the curved plaster lines danced, making the pillars more complicated and three-dimensional.

In the light and shadow of each circle of burning candles, Fanning's spiritual sense "saw" different reminders of dream scenes, and distinguished the characteristics of the spirits of the protagonists in those dreams.

Because they all dreamed of Fanning tonight, either mainly or secondary, or clearly, or vaguely, or consciously, or unconsciously, depending on what they thought during the day, the depth of impression, the strength of hints, and random factors depends.

Among them, the four candlesticks are the most impressive, the clearest, the most influential, or the easiest to invite. They are undoubtedly the four who played the string quartet before tonight.

Fan Ning thought for a moment, first chose one of the four candlesticks, and projected the thread of inspiration into it.

"Caron?"

Sheeran lightly jumped down from the stained window of the church on the auditorium side.

"What's the situation, am I awake or am I dreaming?"

She covered her mouth in surprise, and looked at Fan Ning who was staring at her on the stage in the distance.

　Thanks to Anagae and Crimson Shadow for the monthly pass~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)