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First performed in the Adelaide Festival Centre's OzAsis Festival 2007 Performers: This program embraces a kaleidoscope of works reminiscent of past traditions as well as explorations into the future. Eastern and western traditions synthesize to create an architectural landscape of inherent beauty and clarity. During my visits to Asia, I was moved by the emotional freedom and extravagance of the music. It seemed that the philosophy of the music was concentrated primarily on the dynamics and flow of energy in emotional expression. Tonight's composers explore sound and silence in much the same way that far eastern philosophy views the nature of objects as being independent of their function; the sounds remain the creative source as opposed to being a means to a creative end. Thus in Jia Daqun's Flavour of Bashu , two violins sing exquisitely as the actors in Sichuan Opera. In-Sun Cho's White Shadow draws on traditional Korean singing to explore the symbiotic relationship between silence and sound, stillness and movement. In C-A-G-E- , Tan Dun explores all possible resonances of the piano that can be produced without using the keyboard, using it as an open zither. The genius of the works lies in the clarity of their of their architectural vision.
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