Byron Au Yong

songs of dislocation
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Ishquoh: Where Sounds Meet
for six children's voices, rocks, cello

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DESCRIPTION
Ishquoh means the sound of waterfowl taking flight from Lushootseed, a Coast Salish language. In this site-responsive music-dance work, six children search for a sound called Ishquoh. Voices, rocks and cello play in a ceremony alongside abandoned railroad tracks in Issaquah.

DETAILS
  • Duration variable
  • Premiered on abandoned railroad tracks in Issaquah, October 2006
  • Commissioned by the Issaquah Arts Commission and 4Culture's Site-Specific Performance Network

PRESS QUOTE
"Byron Au Yong, more sensitive to natural sounds and the spiritual resonances of a place than perhaps any other local composer."
Gavin Borchert, Seattle Weekly Pick
CREATIVE TEAM
composer/director Byron Au Yong
vocal coach Betsy Baeskens
costume designer Michelle Kumata
production manager Okazawa M

PERFORMERS
cello Amos Yang
voices/rocks Clarissa Bury, Kaela Palmer, Megan Schutzler, Dori Skinner, Cassie Smith, Bethanie Willis

THANKS
June Sekiguchi, Charlie Rathbun, Suzie Bixler, Trish Bloor, Tracy & Dieter Bury, Marc DelaCruz, David Goldman, Karen Klein, Issaquah Historical Society, Coll Thrush, Susan Palmer, Cari & Michael Schutzler, Cathy Skinner, Luellen and Doug Smith, Ty & Kelly Willis, Village Theatre

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