| DESCRIPTIONShakuhachi [Japanese bamboo flute] with water, voice, er-hu [Chinese fiddle], piano and an assortment of Asian percussion in a recording that pushes beyond the traditional and avant-garde to music that sounds simultaneously ancient and contemporary.DETAILSIn 2007, Seattle-based Byron Au Yong and Tokyo-based Christopher Yohmei Blasdel created a site-responsive sound art concert that traveled through paper-flying, water-splashing terrain.
Blasdel appeared to perform with Au Yong direct from his Tokyo recital exTemporal, which celebrated 35 years of living and studying in Japan.
Together they explored sounds from around the Pacific Rim using shakuhachi, paper, water, piano and voice in the historic Good Shepherd Center Chapel built in 1906. | | CREATIVE TEAMshakuhachi
Christopher Yohmei Blasdel
voice, er-hu, piano, percussion, water
Byron Au Yong
audio engineer
Doug Haire
Released November 2007
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