Byron Au Yong | 歐陽良仁

about the cd
23 of 64 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.

about the performances
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.

support
Creative Capital’s Multi-Arts Production (MAP) Fund, supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation; 4Culture’s King County Site-Specific Performance Network; Bumbershoot Festival of the Arts; and Jack Straw Productions.

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