Byron Au Yong | 歐陽良仁

about the cd
Shakuhachi (Japanese bamboo flute) with water, voice, er-hu (Chinese fiddle), piano, and an assortment of Asian percussion in a recording that pushes past the traditional and avant-garde to a music that is both ancient and contemporary.

about the performance
In Summer 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.