音乐净化灵魂Music purify soul___梁家慎

他是我们的作曲人；他是我们的编曲；他是我们的演奏家；他是我们的录音师；他是我们的音乐监制 – 梁家慎。

刚踏上风下之乡这片土地，对于家慎而言，不熟悉的环境让他内心夹杂着不安。也许因为不安，让他在作音乐这一块变得行事低调。可是上天总会是让拥有才能的人有表现自己的机会。就这样，第一年的他，加入了沙大中华晚会筹委会的阵容，对他而言，非常兴奋。他期许自己可以通过办活动而从中学习。即使他仍然把自己创作的兴趣埋藏在不为人知的深谷里。

音乐净化灵魂

天意弄人，在第二届的沙大中华晚会里，他偶然让当年已成为学姐的依婷发现他创作出众的才能，让他开始为歌舞剧的歌曲创作，投入了筹备的整个过程。很值得一提的是，家慎是有史以来第一位在第一个学期就拿到要职的传奇人物！他的角色从一开始的制作部秘书、策划组主任、歌舞剧歌曲制作人、直到在晚会上担任了舞台总监。这一些，对他来说并不容易。换而言之，这一位刚踏入大学的新人类在第二届的沙大中华晚会早已尝尽在大学里办活动的风风雨雨。当中的压力必然不是那么容易可以征服的。

在短短一年里，表现出色的他从中学习了如何承担、如何运作一个团队、一些舞台制作的细节与概念，以及传承的定义。除此之外，他更为晚会带来了许多原创。他对音乐的元素是纯粹而简单的。而这一些原创都是他在熬夜过后，没有足够睡眠之下所创作出来的。虽然很难熬，但是他并没有忽略掉任何一个音符，因为他要的是把词画上适合的的音符，让整首歌变得有灵魂，有舞台剧中的故事情感。就这样，他一共为了晚会筹备了四首的好歌曲。 晚会结束后，他对音乐的热忱并未褪去，而且开始对这一片州土有了信心。这一次的冲刺，对音乐有深厚喜好的家慎，在战友们的号召下，一起创立了音谷贝特这个平台。

家慎非常清楚地知道，这是一个让他有机会发挥自己兴趣的平台。秉持着这一念对音乐的执着，他意决和大家站在同一阵线上，为开启音谷贝特的旅途而努力。他开始增加编曲的知识，也延续更多原创的意念，继续为音谷贝特谱出更多的曲子。这可说是在沙大，有音乐的地方就看到家慎的作品。 当然，精通音乐的他，歌唱技巧也在他的掌握之内。他是个对音乐热诚一点也不放过的猎人，他不惜一切让自己的水准更上一层楼，他也丝毫不吝于分享自身的经验，开始透过一次又一次的例常活动，分享种种唱歌的技巧给学员们受惠。在每一个转音的练习，每一个尾音的修饰，所有的音准，节拍，他都一一耐心地指导与纠正。当家慎插秧种苗之时，也会有收获的一天。音谷贝特团员们第一次的翻唱歌曲，就这样在商讨之后很顺利就诞辰了。当中，音谷翻唱系列里的选曲，录音，编辑及弹奏，一切都由家慎单刀完成。

家慎默默许下一个承诺，他会尽他自己所能，继续地支持音谷贝特

家慎说，在音谷贝特的日子里，是一种非笔墨所能形容的喜悦。他不但能把自己学习到的东西传授给更多的成员，也能在这陌生的州土找到更多与他一样带着热诚认识音符的人。在这里，他可以和大家一起透过玩乐而学习，彻底享受每一个表演的机会，享受每一个筹备的过程。

家慎告诉小记，在距离毕业的日子越近的时候，当然，最想念的，会是在音谷贝特里的所有回忆。在投入音谷贝特的过程中，他从制作一首首的原创，磨练出自己的编曲能力。每一次的编曲，都成了他的学习过程，在学习之余，他赋予词生命，一石二鸟。

家慎希望这份对原创的热情，会由一代又一代的沙大生延绵不断的传下去，把音谷贝特的音乐库装的满满的都是音乐的热忱。也许今天以后，这再也不是默默，因为家慎曾默默许下一个承诺，他会尽他自己所能，继续地支持音谷贝特，即使自己有一天已不再沙大活跃。

后记：结束了与家慎的访问后，小记开始想起在制作沙大中华晚会其中一首歌曲时，那轻快跳跃的旋律。透过旋律里，可以看到这个热爱音乐的他，夹杂着一些童心，却也可以带起大家的共鸣。这或许就是他的长项，以小清新系为品牌。

He is our composer; he is our arranger; he is our pianist; he is our recording engineer; he is our music producer – Leong Ka Shem.

        Upon setting out on his journey in the land below the wind, the unfamiliar environment has thrown him into mixed feelings of excitement and anxiety. Perhaps due to this, he was modest towards music-making and gradually soft-pedalled his musical storms. During his first year in the university, he joined the organizing team for the Chinese Cultural Festival. He was overwhelmed with joy for his inclusion in the team. He hoped that he could learn something through the event. At that point, he concealed his musical talents and immersed himself in something else he never come across with.

        The shine of this diamond in the rough, however, has been unearthed in the midst of the preparation of the event. His outstanding talent in music writing has leaded him to compose a list of songs for the musical dance theater, and thereof put himself into the whole process of preparation. It is worth mentioning that Ka Shem was the legendary representative who has been appointed as the key position in university events, as early as in his first semester of study. His role was ranged from the secretary of production, the leader of program planning, the musical writer, to the stage manager of the theater. For him, it was not easy at all. In other words, this new leaf who has just entered the university, has already tasted the ups and downs that might not be experienced by his peers. Inevitably, it was not easy to conquer the pressure in between.

        In just a year, he has been equipped with various skills such as how to undertake a responsibility, how to run a team, a number of details and concepts on stage production, as well as the rationale to inherit a culture. In addition, he brought a generous element on the originality of the musical dance theater. It is not difficult to realize his purity and simplicity in his musical works. Nonetheless they were produced from a number of sleepless nights. As such, he has written a total of four songs and a few other background music in a tight time constraint. Although it was tough, he was very particular in every single musical notes of his music. Without his music flowing between the stage play, it would be merely one without a soul. In addition to his flaming passion for music, the greatest reward from the tough year was that he began to feel this land as his second home. Together with his enthusiastic team members, he created Incubator Workshop.

        Ka Shem knows that this would serve as the perfect platform for him to exert his interest. Upholding his dedication to music, he made his intention clear and began to work on the establishment of Incubator Workshop. He enhanced his musical knowledge, particularly in music arrangement. Meanwhile, he extended more original ideas and continued to compose new music works. Certainly, his proficiency in music was not limited on music-making but also on vocals. He is definitely an aggressive musical hunter wherein he restlessly grasps on related skills and always wanted to make improvements. Above this all, he did not hesitate to share his knowledge. Through routine activities, Ka Shem benefited other members by sharing singing skills and guided them with full patience. In just a few months, he successfully produced a series of song covers, which covered song selection, practice, recording and editing.

        In the days with Incubator Workshop, he said that it was a joy beyond description. Not only passing the knowledge he has equipped with, he also get to know more enthusiastic talents on this lovely land. Here, he could learn together with others while having so much fun. Here, he thoroughly enjoyed every performance and the process of each preparation.

        As the graduation day is just right at the corner, what makes Ka Shem miss the most is of no doubt, the moments and sweet bitter memories in Incubator Workshop. During the days in Incubator Workshop, he has enhanced his ability in musical arrangement by producing one after another original music pieces. He was the one who honored a soul to the lyrics, and he was the one who created the ambient atmosphere for the songs.

        Ka Shem hopes that the passion for originality, not only in music, will be continually passed down from generation to generation of graduates. One day, the music library of Incubator Workshop will be charmed with the soulful works. He made a promise to himself, that he would do his best to support Incubator Workshop even if he is no longer in the university.

Epilogue:  Upon completing the interview with Ka Shem, a playful melody of his came into my mind. It was one of the song from the stage play. Through this melody, it is noticeably that his love for music is mixed up with some pure and innocent elements, yet his works always resonate with people’s common feelings. Perhaps this is his most attractive strength, and this is what makes him whole!

当代灵魂演唱人___齐藤静惠 SAITO

当代灵魂演唱人

很有性格的齐藤静惠是音谷贝特的第一代演唱人。她的声色沉重而特别，就像咖啡，越喝越浓。然而，她在音谷贝特扮演着的并不是只有演唱人那么简单……

静惠这个名字听起来一定是非常陌生，但是当你听到SAITO这个名字时，你就会知道这个人在沙大乐坛里曾经是风云人物。爸爸是日本人;妈妈是马来西亚华侨的她一直以来都非常光荣自己的身份。也许是特别；也许是她人生里的其中一个特征。SAITO从小就喜欢唱歌，不管是中文歌，或是英文日语歌，也或者韩国歌，她都能够轻松掌握。只能说她是一个语文能力非常强的演唱人。

虽然说SAITO喜欢唱歌，但她却没有学过真正的声乐。她是靠着听专业歌者的演唱技巧而慢慢把自己的声乐设定起来。一切说起来，她对学唱歌的欲望是非一般的高，所以才照就今天的成就。除此之外，SAITO也学会了弹钢琴的技巧，虽然不是她的强项，但她还是能够弹出许多乐曲。

大学时期的SAITO很顺利的在第一届沙大中华晚会试音面试里脱颖而出，获得当时担当评审的学长们青睐，让她终于在千百人的面前表演。她述说，当时唱的歌是邓丽君金曲，歌唱表演是数十位的沙大演唱人一起合作。由于时间有限，SAITO的出列时间并没有很长，加上SAITO自己本身并没有在当晚演绎得特好，所以当下她给自己的评语是需要更多的时间和技巧来磨练自己。值得一提的是，她还是很满意当晚自己的表现。

她庆幸自己在沙大中华晚会里认识了王依婷，然后成了好朋友。那是因为SAITO认为这是能和她一起疯狂的朋友。她们两人都在第二届的沙大中华晚会有着各自的岗位，而SAITO这一次是扮演着演唱人与演员的角色。由于和乐团的练习较少，所以这一次的表演比起第一届的表现大大滑落。但她并没有对这种局面感到失落，而更是努力的练好自己的技巧。

就那一次，她开始喜欢上了原创歌曲，她喜欢唱着朋友一起写的歌和曲，因为她觉得原唱者就像是歌曲的根，扎得好就能够把歌曲捧上台，甚至有机会在大学里发表。于是，她答应了要求，在音谷贝特里担当演唱人一职。

在音谷贝特成立后的日子，SAITO开始有机会表演，也预期所料，她把原创搬上舞台，而这一次的表演就在沙大中秋灯笼晚会，她非常满意自己的表演。她说，这是因为大家的努力，才让自己的表演在当天如此成功。她补充说，虽然是音谷贝特第一次的表演，当时也有很多事并未完全组织起来，但是在过程中，她享受着大家一起练习演唱原创歌曲的乐趣。

从此，她就是音谷贝特里的第一代演唱人。如果没有她，原创的歌就没有了灵魂。而现在，她虽然再也没有沙大里演出，但她现在还为音谷贝特做着文书类似的幕后工作，她凭着会员们的每次报告以及元老们的意见，把文书一篇篇整理好，留在属于音谷贝特的电子笔记本里。她在音谷贝特有着音谷代表人物的称号，那是因为SAITO永远都是以热诚去催促会员记得要出席列常活动的那个人。

SAITO永远都是以热诚去催促会员记得要出席列常活动的那个人。

她告诉小记，如果日子允许的话，她希望音谷要更早成立，把地基打得稳一点，那么今天的音谷贝特就会是比现在更强的音谷贝特。所以，她对现在的管理层也有一定的信心，因为她相信，这一班与她有同样梦想的伙伴们能够把音谷贝特搞的更强。

后记：原来齐藤静惠就是她啊！小记其实有点晃然大悟原因是，跟她同一间系院三年现在才发现她的名字就叫齐藤静惠。2014年的盆踊日本节，近距离看着她演唱“后来”的日语版本，她一点也不怯场，甚至还有很多观众和她一起合唱高举双手，共鸣得很。也许，她就是个自学演唱家，天才般的自学演唱家。

如果日子允许的话，她希望音谷要更早成立，把地基打得稳一点，那么今天的音谷贝特就会是比现在更强的音谷贝特。

The Soul Vocalist - Saito Sizue

She has a distinctive character. She has a unique but profound voice. She is among one of the most outstanding vocalist we ever have.

Saito Sizue- this name might sounds familiar to you. She is very proud with her identify of mixed race of Japanese and Chinese. Due to her identify, perhaps, her presence is always attentive to the people around her. You might not know her well enough if you never realize that she is so talented in singing. Since her early childhood, singing has become her utmost interest. Markedly, she has a good grasp on songs of different languages ranged from Mandarin, English, Japanese and Korean.

Surprisingly, Saito has never attended a professional vocal class before. She said that she learned to sing by listening to professional singers and thereby, she set her own vocal up.  It could be deduced that she has a strong desire to sing, which leaded her achievement today. Apart of that, Saito can play piano and violin too.

In the university, Saito stood out from the audition of the first Chinese Cultural Night event. Her singing has received a good recognition from the reviewers. Thereof, she successfully grabbed the chance to sing. She was so thrilled to be included in the oldies medley performance in the hall accommodated with audiences up to a few thousands. There were UMS idols, she said, singing along with her. The performance was satisfactory. However, she realized that she had to practice more and more to improve on her skills.

She said she was glad to know Ee Theng during the event. She treasures this friend so much as they can do countless crazy things together. In the 2^nd Chinese Cultural Night, each of them had their own roles. Saito was the actress as well as the vocalist for the musical dance theater during the event. It was a full musical band accompanied live performance. For her parts, however, she thinks that the performance was not satisfactory as they did not have the adequate time to synchronize with the musical band. Nonetheless, this did not discourage her but instead she pushed herself to do better in the following performances.

She did not expect but to get so attached to original songs. Her involvement in the performance highlighting original songs leaded her to start singing original songs written by her friends. A vocalist is the root of an original song, she commented. If the song is well presented, she feels proud to perform the song on stage and make it publishable. Owing to this interest and vision, she agreed to immerse herself in Incubator Workshop.

Upon the establishment of Incubator Workshop, Saito started to perform during their first performance. As in her expectations, their original songs were played on stage. She was astonished by their first performance. Despite the facts that there were a lot of unsettlements during the early stage of Incubator Workshop, she said she truly enjoyed the moments practicing new songs with the team.

She was the first to sing, and the first to act in Incubator Workshop. Without her, the original works would not be graced with a soul. Today, she no longer performs in UMS. Instead, she puts tremendous efforts on administrative works in the background. She collects and keeps every documents of Incubator Workshop in order. She owns the name of the representative feature in Incubator Workshop. This is because she is the one who always give so much inspirations and motivations to everyone.

She added that she wished Incubator Workshop could be formed earlier. If that is the case, she would strengthen the foundation of Incubator Workshop to a greater extent. She is confident that the current management committee will make Incubator Workshop better. She will be always here to support and to work together with the bunch of awesome people who having the same passion and dream!

Epilogue: I have no idea that this girl is Saito Sizue! I had enjoyed her performance so much during the Bon Odori 2014. The Japanese song she sang is still fresh in my mind. She was so charming and I like how audiences sang together with her. The atmosphere was just perfect! Perhaps, she is a born vocalist. She is a brilliant and talented vocalist!

当假文青不再假___王依婷

 "不能静止不前 不愿拥抱愧欠——如果再一遍”

能造就今天的王依婷，要感谢的是她当初的自己还有能够陪她一起疯狂的战友。2011年，第一年离乡背井从槟城乔治市来到沙巴亚庇总共是1087英里。爱玩的她并没有想过三个年头会带给她那么多难忘以及能够珍惜的事情。

依婷第一年就开始在沙巴大学活跃起来，她第一个参加的活动是第一届沙巴大学中华晚会。当初的她非常幸运，得到一些学长学姐的爱戴与赏识，让她到筹委会里当上策划组的秘书一职。然而，晚会筹备过程里，她学的东西不单单只是文书工作，也许是依婷的好奇心过重，她在这个过程里还学到了如何策划与编排节目，甚至表演这门艺术。这可说是让依婷琢磨成玉的好时机。当中，难免会有争执或闹不和，但是她知道，一个团队能做的是把活动顺利完成。即使，她只是里头的一个小将；一个精通多项工作的小将。就这样，晚会结束后，观众席的掌声哗然，让她开始了在策划这一块有了印记。

第二个年头，她在沙大中华晚会里担当了副制作，并没有太意外她担当这一职。借此，她担当的不仅仅是副制作，还开始学习写词哼曲，休假时就在家乡角落间的咖啡座里闭关，要不就当个宅女，为的就是晚会的歌舞剧。当中许多拥有相同兴趣的队友纷纷赶工熬夜，不眠不休，为的就是每一首的歌曲都是原曲创作。她也不是什么写词一流的文青，只是偶然发现写词的乐趣，也就这样，开始了写词的旅途。

晚会结束后，热血并未冷却，她和战友们开始有了想法，要开始创立属于沙大的创作平台，为和他们拥有同样梦想的人建立小小的舞台，让沙大有艺术细胞的人才能够展出属于自己的作品。于是，她开始接洽并在机缘巧合之下，这个团体正式在沙大的中秋灯笼之夜完美演出。她说，主持人喊着“音谷贝特”这个名词时，当下的感觉即感动又激动。当晚演出后她差一点就哭了出来，她知道音谷贝特不再是抽象的，而是实际的。

依婷开始投入在音谷贝特的每个细节，从会员招募到创作管理，每一块里都有她的身影。当中会员加入或离开；表演空档接洽或终止，为的都是保留原创的意义。她告诉我，要感谢的人何其多，批评或赞扬，每一次都是能够学习的机会。她的动力就是来自于和她一起走过的志同道合，与她不眠不休的朋友，依婷希望和他们一起玩下去，无论现在分散到多远，目的还是最初的表演艺术与原创概念，基地总会是在沙巴大学。她遗憾自己不是个天生梦想家，未能早一点创立音谷贝特，未能完完全全在离开大学前的日子再多做一点活动给会员们表演。

或许没有梦想就是梦想的开始。用想法策划它；用热血沸腾它；用想法完成它。

依婷为音谷贝特打开了一扇窗，她希望一样喜欢原曲创作与表演的沙大同学们能够一起参与交流。

后记：访问了依婷过后，勾起了小记少许回忆。依稀记得第二届中华晚会当晚，我拿着当晚免费的年刊，夹着的多首歌词都有王依婷这个名字，当时还真的对这个名字印象深刻。于是小记开始扫描词句里的意思。坐在观众席，昏暗的灯光，词句却如此耀眼。最后遇见本人才发现，她更耀眼。

当假文青不再假。

 "I couldn't just stop here, I couldn't bear the pain of having a regret - Rewind"

Without the accompaniment of a bunch of crazy comrades in the past years, she would not be someone as how she is today. In the year of 2011, Ee Theng uprooted George Town, Penang and travelled to Kota Kinabalu, Sabah to pursue her studies. She never thought that there would be so much memorable things happened over the three years.

Ee Theng was actively involved in university events since her first year of studies. The first event she participated was the first Chinese Cultural Night at UMS. She was fortunate enough to have her seniors recognized and promoted as the secretary of the program unit. During the preparation of the event, however, she learnt more than secretariat works. She was merely an ordinary committee member but her curiosity leaded her to have a strong grasp on program planning and executing, as well as the arts of performance. Going through ups and downs during the process, she realized the importance of continuing a culture and working as a team. The magnificent closing of the cultural night marked the start point of her journey in this particular field.

In the second year, she took up the role as the associate producer of the second Chinese Cultural Night. Despite of that, she started to write lyrics for the particular musical dance theater in the Chinese Cultural Night. She chose to retreat herself in the coffee house by immersing herself in the words and music during the holiday. She was glad that she was not alone during those sleepless nights. The whole team worked restlessly in order to produce the best original artworks. She said that her lyrics are not the best but she just stumbled upon the pleasure of writing a lyric. Hence, she began her journey as a lyricist.

The closing of the event did not end the story. The continual passion in her and the team has inspired and triggered the formation of a creative platform in UMS. They dreamt to create a stage for those having the same passion and talent. After months of efforts, the team managed to accomplish their first ever official performance during the Night of Mid-Autumn Festival in UMS. She said she was so thrilled and moved when the host pronounced ‘Incubator Workshop’ on the stage. At that moment, she knew Incubator Workshop was no longer just a dream.

Thereof, Ee Theng started to put herself into every detail in Incubator Workshop. Her presence and involvement could be ranged from member recruitment, original production to team management. The turn-over of members and performances did not cease her persistence in retaining the originality of the production. She told me that there are abundant of people she needs to convey her heartfelt gratitude. Every compliment, encouragement or criticism was what driving her to move on. She treasures and appreciates those friends who recklessly traveled along the journey of uncertainty with her. With the foundation at UMS, she believes that the beauty of the arts would be their core of unity no matter where they would be. She added that she is not a born dreamer. She felt regretful for not establishing Incubator Workshop as earlier as to gather more passionate peers.

Having no dream, perhaps, is the start point of dreaming on. Plot it with ideas, excite it with your passion, and pursue it by continually dreaming!

Epilogue: The interview with Ee Theng has brought me a mindful of memories. I could vaguely recall that the booklet I took from the 2nd Chinese Cultural Night has her name sandwiched in accordance to a number of lyrics. The name was appealing to me and I started scan the lyrics and their meanings. I remembered I was quietly sitting at the audience seat.  The lighting was dim and yet the words were so catchy. At the moment when I met her, only I found that she is much more dazzling than I used to think of.