Anaïs Maviel, Voice/N'goni

Pauline Kim Harris, Violin/Voice

Conrad Harris, Violin/Voice

Chieh-Fan Yiu, Viola/Voice

Chris Gross, Cello/Voice

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Approaching listening as performative and performance as meditative, listen to the rain weaves Afrocentric with Western music traditions, written and oral. Grounded in the study of the Taoist meditation called fusion of the 5 elements, the music explores the cyclical relations between body, earth and cosmos, as a structural base. The ensemble will play 4 of the 8 movements corresponding to the 8 forces/trigrams of the bagua, called by their ancient Chinese names.

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Program:

Du haut de la falaise 

Glory to the Sun

kun 坤 – earth

drawing a circle 3

qian 乾 – sky

when sky

becomes you

space fuses light

time dilates play

particles on?

gestate epiphany

implode atoms

sculpt one?

drawing a circle 5

coda