WIND AND THE DANCING BAMBOOS

February 7, 2018

《WIND AND THE DANCING BAMBOOS》

for Soundscape, Piano and Computer-Generated Sound

contact: Wuan-chin Li - sandrawcl@gmail.com

Program Notes

The music was inspired by a Qing dynasty poet Zheng Xie’s poem work- “Bamboo”: ⼀一節復⼀一節,千枝攢萬葉;我⾃自不開花,免撩蜂與蝶。 English translation: A day after day, thousands of branches to save leaves; since I do not blossom, free up bee and butterfly. The composer Wuan-chin Li (Sandra Tavali) visited 2016 klingt gut!

International Symposium on Sound, when she, for the first time, was impressed by the beautiful sound and field recoding works she learned in this conference. After she came back to Taiwan, she invited a local field recoding- soundscape artist Laila (Chin-Hui) Fan to complete this work - "Wind And the Dancing Bamboos". Both artists hope this collaboration will bring the great ideas of contemporary computer music composition and soundscape work together successfully.

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About the composers

Music Composer:

WUAN-CHIN LI Sandra Wuan-chin Li is a former keyboardist of “Chthonic”, and the composer for “Unknown Taiwan” by Discovery Channel. She earned the Master degree in Computer Music from the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University, where she studied with Prof. Geoffrey Wright. Her work “Dirge” was featured at the International Computer Music Conference 2015,”River, Rim and the Earth” was selected at ISMIR 2015, featured at New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival and New York Philharmonic Biennial 2016, “Ban Shan” was featured at klingt gut! Symposium on Sound 2016, and “The Wind Bloweth Where It Listeth” was featured at WOCMAT-ISMIR 2016.

Soundscpae Artist

LAILA CHIN-HUI FAN Laila (Chin-Hui) Fan is a famous documentary director, a nature writer, a radio and TV†host, and field recorder in Taiwan. For 20 years, she has hosted the radio show Nature Notes in National Education Radio which has garnered 5 Golden Bell awards. She has also recorded countless hours of the purest Taiwanese wilderness. Fan established the Soundscape Association of Taiwan in 2015 and be voted as the general director of SAT. Fan has also written 7 books about how to love and respect the natural environment and inspire people to protect the world.

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