On June 29, 2007, Seattle composer Byron Au Yong and Tokyo shakuhachi musician Christopher Yohmei performed a site-responsive sound art concert that traveled through paper-flying, water-splashing terrain.
Direct from his Tokyo recital exTemporal, which celebrated 35 years of studying shakuhachi in Japan, Yohmei made a rare stop in Seattle to perform with Au Yong. Together they explored sounds from around the Pacific Rim using shakuhachi (Japanese end-blown bamboo flute), paper, water, piano, and voice in the historic Good Shepherd Center Chapel built in 1906.