Byron Au Yong

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Kidnapping Water: Bottled Operas CD
DESCRIPTION
23 of 64 recorded Bottled Operas travel through warnings, prayers, fantasies and whispers in a thematic review for future generations about an element older than man. Human voices and splashing water cry out harder than the silent wisdom of hair turned white.

The I Ching 易經 [Book of Changes] structures chaos by balancing dynamic opposites. There are 64 ways to configure broken and continuous six lines. The 64 hexagrams present a cosmology and philosophy for anticipating and accepting change.

DETAILS
In Summer 2008, Byron Au Yong and a creative team of singers and percussionists performed Kidnapping Water: Bottled Operas in 64 waterways throughout the Pacific Northwest.

The initiative was created with support from MAP Fund, 4Culture Site-Specific, Bumbershoot Festival of the Arts and Jack Straw Productions.


CREATIVE TEAM
composer Byron Au Yong
librettists Eugenie Chan, Bret Fetzer, Aaron Jafferis, Archana Kumar, Carola Luther, Caroline Murphy, Vivian Umino, Edisa Weeks
hiking singers Josie Davis, Emily Greenleaf, Jeremiah Oliver, David Stutz
water percussionists Stuart McLeod, Dean Moore, Benjamin Morrow, James Whetzel
audio engineer Tom Stiles

Released January 2009