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Even a musical cave woman like me could appreciate and enjoy the sophistication in composition. Kristina Wong


BreathPlay
Byron Au Yong, Christopher Yohmei

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. Released in 2007.
  
 

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There is the sense of field recordings and yet, compositionally, there is also an insistence of academic modernism. Jon Gierlich


Walking
Byron Au Yong, Karen Akada, Christopher Yohmei, David Crandall, David Goldman, Yukie Iotomi, Greg Ohme, Peter Joon Park, Frank Minoru Phillips, Aiko Shimada, Dennis Staskowski, Hanz Araki


Unusual instruments and vocal techniques produce a theatrical music that evokes secret rituals. The eclectic instrumentation includes er-hu, euphonium, Irish flute, Noh voices, shakuhachi, string bass, tabla, taiko, trombone, Tibetan long horns, voices, and xun. Released in 2001.

 
In addition, Au Yong's music is included on the following recordings