The advancement of technology has driven the development of the fountain industry. Modern fountains are not only a part of water scenery, but also form a garden art together with architecture, sculpture, and greening. Instead, they integrate modern sound, light, and electricity technology to form a comprehensive art form with expressive and narrative functions. This is the modern music fountain.

The music fountain involves a wide range of professions, including music analysis, water supply and drainage, mechanical design, electrical control, communication, computer control, sound and lighting, multimedia production, network communication technology, etc.

Comprehensive performance is the soul of a musical fountain, and the quality of the performance directly affects the artistic expression and social value of the fountain product. Good comprehensive performance can fully demonstrate the designer's design intention, and also greatly enhance the artistic charm and humanistic connotation of the water feature, improving the quality of the fountain. Poor performance will result in waste of manpower, material resources, and financial resources.

Music fountain music is to fully utilize the elements such as water type, lighting, sound, etc. possessed by the fountain, unleash the artistic imagination of the creator, and use artistic expression techniques such as summarization, symbolism, and suggestion to express the connotation and theme of music through rhythmic, organized, virtual, and programmatic fountain language. It forms a harmonious unity in human visual and auditory senses, giving people a strong visual shock and great artistic enjoyment.

At present, most of the music fountain orchestration work in the fountain industry is taken care of by other professionals, and there are few professionals engaged in artistic creation, which results in few high-quality works in music fountain products.

How can a good musical fountain performance be arranged? I have summarized some in my work and shared them with everyone.
1、 Music Fountain Art Language

Music is the use of the length, pitch, and timbre of syllables on a one-dimensional timeline to convey the author's meaning; Painting is the use of modeling techniques such as dots, lines, light and shadow, color, and composition to create and express images on a two-dimensional plane, in order to achieve aesthetic effects; Sculpture is a three-dimensional spatial art that uses symbolic spatial shapes to convey the ideological connotations that the sculptor wants to express; Dance tells stories through human body movements, with the continuation of time and the shaping of spatial movements; Fountain is similar to dance, creating a unique artistic conception through the combination of water patterns such as points, lines, surfaces, and bodies over time.

As a three-dimensional and dynamic landscape, the music fountain combines various artistic forms such as music, sculpture, lighting, color, and even dance. By changing the intensity, strength, form, speed, and color of the sprayed water column, it reflects the connotation of music from multiple perspectives and forms a unique aesthetic effect. Here we summarize the language elements of musical fountains: the types of fountains, the forms of fountain movements, and the colors of lighting.

One of the language elements of musical fountains: fountain type

At present, there are numerous types of fountains, and these different types of fountains are one of the essential factors that make up the art of musical fountains. These different types of fountains spray water columns that can be tall or short, straight or projectile, thick or thin, stationary or swinging

Different water types have different artistic characteristics, and these different types of fountain water types are like musical notes that can form various variations to suit different music, forming a complete musical fountain piece.

The second language element of music fountain: action form

The artistic effect of a music fountain is always presented in the variation of the water type of the fountain. The movements, changes, or existing states exhibited by a fountain during its operation are the forms of movement of the fountain. Three dimensional spatial art is static and can only enter the four-dimensional domain through the continuation of time, which is dynamic.

Here, we summarize the action forms of music fountains as static, rotating, colliding, swinging, swinging, running, and variations in fountain types.

The third language element of music fountain: lighting color

The use of various lights causes colorless water to undergo different color changes. This includes underwater lights, computer lights, lasers, etc. The use of lighting breaks through the traditional water shape and combination of fountains. The color rendering and changes brought by lighting greatly enrich the artistic expression of fountains. It can be seen that color changes are a crucial component of fountain art.

The application of lighting is mainly used to brighten water patterns and render colors to create an artistic conception. Different colors and sensitive changes have different visual sensations. Determine the color and sensitive changes of the light based on the music, and determine the main color tone of the light based on the emotion of the music.

The combination of color, spring type, and movement form in music fountains plays an important role in enhancing, neutralizing, embellishing, or rendering the artistic expression of fountain works. These three parts of artistic language are not isolated or acting alone. In all music fountain works, these artistic languages are always organically combined and complement each other, jointly shaping the artistic theme of the music fountain.
2、 Music analysis

The ideological content and artistic beauty of a musical work can only be expressed through the combination of basic elements such as harmony, melody, and rhythm, providing auditory enjoyment and forging people's aesthetic taste. To interpret musical works well with a fountain, one must have a good understanding of the musical works.

The focus of music composition analysis includes various elements of music language such as melody, beat, rhythm, timbre, tonality, mode, harmony, structure, texture, orchestration, emotion, artistic conception, etc; There are both formal and content elements here.

The key points of music analysis in a music fountain include theme analysis, rhythm analysis, structure analysis, and melody analysis.

Theme analysis of music: emotions of music, background of music creation

Rhythm Analysis of Music: Fast/Slow, Strong/Weak, Intensity

Structural analysis of music: the beginning, transition, and combination between musical segments

Melody analysis of music: main melody, core of the piece

Music is the soul of a fountain, the fountain is the echo of music, and melody is the best embodiment of music. Music not only provides the foundation of rhythm for directors, but also emotions, thoughts, personalities, images, and structures. Only directors who enjoy a deep understanding of music can have endless inspiration, integrating the image of music and the image of a fountain, and creating a "fountain melody" based on the melody of music; The color variation of music is an inspiration for the diversification of fountains, and the musical structure should be reflected in the fountain structure. The unique rhythm of music will produce distinctive and personalized fountain movements, and the fountain achieves a dramatic effect with the contrast and unfolding of music.
3、 Performance arrangement

When people experience various sounds, they unconsciously associate these auditory sensations with the sensations of other non auditory organs, and this phenomenon is called synesthesia. In general, notes in the high frequency range are often associated with bright visual sensations, positive or happy mood sensations, while notes in the low frequency range are often associated with dim visual sensations, depressed or sad mood sensations, etc; A soothing rhythm can easily make people feel an open space or relatively calm emotions, while a rapid rhythm can easily make people feel a narrow space, emotional agitation, and so on. The arrangement of fountain music is based on the imagination of synesthesia to configure various water types, interpreting a musical rhythm, melody, emotion, and artistic conception, from auditory perception to visual imagery. The arranger of fountain repertoire needs to master and grasp many objective things such as music, equipment performance, and control methods, and have good artistic creation ideas, in order to ensure the rich connotation and full life of fountain performances. The arrangement of fountain repertoire is like directing a dance. The director needs to consider what kind of body movements the dancers use to express the emotions of the music. The arrangement of fountain repertoire needs to consider what kind of water type changes are used to express the emotions of the music. Colleagues also need to take into account the unique beauty of the fountain's own form changes.

Here, from the perspective of the arranger of fountain music, we will discuss the factors such as water type movements, content meaning, stage design, and artistic conception in the process of arranging fountain music, in order to better reflect the uniqueness of the musical fountain music arrangement process.

Drawing on other artistic theories, we have also summarized the three elements of musical fountain performance: rhythm, movement, and composition.

One of the elements of a musical fountain: action

Fountain is the dance of water, and the artistic effect of music fountain is always presented in the movements and changes of the fountain. Therefore, the elements of fountain movement are one of the most basic characteristics and forms of expression of musical fountains.

At the beginning of the article, we summarized the movement forms of music fountains as static, rotating, colliding, swinging, swinging, running, and the variation of fountain types.

The strength, speed, and magnitude of the same action vary. The same action can have different effects and convey different emotions due to changes in rhythm or speed, increased or decreased intensity, and increased or decreased amplitude. A music fountain is a fountain whose movements resonate with music,

The second element of a musical fountain: rhythm

The bond between fountain and music is rhythm, and the rhythm of fountain movements in music fountain performances should match the rhythm of the music. Rhythm is the fundamental element of music and an important part of the formal beauty required in musical fountain art.

In music, rhythm is the most basic means of expression, which is a regular combination of the length, strength, and weight of sound, and is also the main factor in the structure of the music, making the music reflect the fluctuations of emotions.

In a musical fountain, rhythm is the most fundamental element and means of expression, including the strength and speed of the water column movement, as well as the magnitude and energy of the movement. The rhythm of the movements in a musical fountain is often based on the rhythm of the music melody. The continuation, repetition, and variation of the fountain movements are accompanied by the rhythm, thus matching the emotions of the fountain and the music. The auditory rhythm of the music is presented visually, allowing the music to be seen. At the same time, the music also enhances the sense of rhythm of the fountain, reflecting the rhythmic beauty of the fountain movements.

The third element of a musical fountain: composition

Music is an art of auditory perception, while music fountains are an art of coexistence of auditory and visual senses. They transform the purely auditory temporal emotional changes of music into visual spatial changes, creating the emotional or artistic conception of music through the combination of water shapes such as points, lines, surfaces, and bodies, as well as changes in lighting colors over time. If rhythm is the temporal factor of a musical fountain, then the water type, color, and movement form of the fountain are the spatial factors of the musical fountain, which is referred to as the composition of the fountain.

The movement and stillness of water patterns, the brightness and darkness of light, the intensity and lightness of colors, the changes in virtual and real movements, and the visual effects presented to viewers in fountain performances not only express the specific thoughts and emotions of music, but also create various beautiful fountain imagination spaces.

The water movements composed of moving from one point to another, from one point to a line, and then to a surface are rich and colorful. When arranging the fountain movements, the arranger of the music fountain should not only consider the rhythm and melody of the music, but also take into account the direction, route, and shape of the fountain's deep movements, making the fountain more three-dimensional and layered.

There are three types of symmetry in composition: synchronous symmetry, asynchronous symmetry, and asymmetry.

Simultaneous symmetry. It refers to the phenomenon displayed on both sides with the center of the fountain as the boundary. Similar symmetry exists in spatial forms of art such as Chu Ru's painting, sculpture, and architecture. Symmetry has a sense of stability, unity, and seriousness. However, this symmetry gives the audience a relatively simple impression and can also easily cause aesthetic fatigue. Therefore, some people even believe that using symmetrical methods is not very good, but this requires the design of the fountain structure based on the theme.

Heterotemporal symmetry, also known as alternating symmetry, only exists in art where spatiality and temporality coexist, such as dance. In asynchronous symmetry, the movement phenomenon appearing on the right side starts at the moment when the movement phenomenon on the left side ends, with the center as the boundary. Although the movements are symmetrical to each other, they do not occur at the same time. Only when the movement phenomenon on one side still exists in people's memory, the movement phenomenon on the other side can form the same impression as synchronous symmetry. On the contrary, if the phenomenon on the left is difficult to remember, it will not give people the impression of symmetry. According to the general rule, the movement phenomena on the right and left sides of asynchronous symmetry must be balanced from beginning to end, and the beginning and end must be connected to each other.

Contrary to synchronous symmetry, asymmetry gives people a feeling of movement and change, and only under the action of balance can it give people a sense of stability.

The action, rhythm, and composition of the fountain complement each other, but have different emphases in different music.

In short, a fountain is a dance of water, mainly expressed through rhythmic, organized, virtualized, programmed, and beautified fountain language. The expression of emotions in fountains is implicit and freehand rather than explicit and realistic. Its unique broad and hazy colors give the artistic realm of fountains a certain inspiration and uncertainty. Generally speaking, it is good at expressing emotions but not good at storytelling. Fountain is not just a grand technological project, but it seems to have life, its own spiritual emotions, and is a multidisciplinary art combination. The comprehensive performance of the music fountain uses music as a link to bring water closer to people and form the best relationship between water and people. Mark Fowler, founder of the renowned water feature design company Wet Design, said, "We are constructing - architecture - performing arts - theater effects - dance weaving through. The emotions expressed in music, whether joyful, passionate, relaxed, passionate, unrestrained, or joyful, are vividly portrayed through the ever-changing and orderly fountain; At the same time, music also endows water with rich wisdom and spirituality. Water seems to have good artistic potential, and every change, detail, and posture of the fountain can make people involuntarily associate it with the colorful stage. Dancers step on the music drum and wave their hands, make their feet, look back, and rotate with such agility, flexibility, harmony, and rhythm.