Byron Au Yong

DESCRIPTION

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.

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.

Kidnapping Water: Bottled Operas was created with support from 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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CREATIVE TEAM

Byron Au Yong (composer)

Eugenie Chan, Bret Fetzer, Aaron Jafferis, Archana Kumar,
Carola Luther, Caroline Murphy, Vivian Umino, Edisa Weeks, (librettists)

Josie Davis, Emily Greenleaf, Jeremiah Oliver, David Stutz (hiking singers)
Stuart McLeod, Dean Moore, Benjamin Morrow, James Whetzel (water percussionists)
Tom Stiles (audio engineer)