Album US 1999 on Post Concrete label
Electronic (Abstract, Musique Concrète, Experimental)
Recorded 1998-1999 at Sounding Gourd Studio, Berkeley "Garden of Memory" was composed as music for dance for the 1999 International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), Beijing, and premiered by the Beijing Modern Dance Company in October 1999 Sound sources: 1. pipa (originally an improvisation piece written for real-time computer-generated poetry, narrator, pipa, and live computer) 2. Kunqu operatic phrase and traditional ensemble music 3. poem read in winter rain 4. text read by author 5. firecrackers and sounds of writing: writing on a laptop computer, writing on paper, taking calligraphy rubbings from 2000-year-old steles, discussions on writing, etc. 6. a single poetic phrase taken from the 16th-century Kunqu opera "Peony Pavilion" 7. author reading her story set in 12th-century china (all vocal parts and all of tracks 4, 6 & 7 were made entirely from spoken Mandarin - no singing was involved)
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No | Title | Artist | Composer | Duration |
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1 | Cinnabar Red Drizzle | Dajuin Yao | 13:22 | |
2 | Endless Frustration | Dajuin Yao | 9:40 | |
3 | Words Without A Song | Dajuin Yao | 4:25 | |
4 | Green Sofa Story | Dajuin Yao | 7:05 | |
5 | Writing Of Sounds Of Writing | Dajuin Yao | 19:03 | |
6 | Warbling Orioles Returning | Dajuin Yao | 6:12 | |
7 | Garden Of Memories | Dajuin Yao | 14:02 |