DESCRIPTION
Shakuhachi (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.
DETAILS
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