Broken Factory Music

1. To Dream What May Be "Viva Voce"

2. Travel For a Day "Goodnight Star"

3. Deeper "Lunasect"

4. Helicopter "Francis"

5. Faders That Fade "Untold Dream"

6. When I was With You "Qub3"

7. Bank Holiday "Soviet"

8. Awake "aNi"

9. For So Long "Norway"

10. What Else Can I Do "Pacifico"

11. Please "Tricolor"

12. Winter Dreams "Arkport"

13. Never Let Go "Morellas Forest (Ti Mo remix)

Broken Factory Music,Various Artists

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The Floating Box
Zheng Zhou , Tomas Ulrich , Michiyo Suzuki , Jason Kao Hwang , Juan Carlos Rivas , Patti Monson , Ryu-Kyung Kim , Diana Herold , Satoshi Takeishi , Sandia Ang , Charlee Chiv , Henry Yuk , Mona Chiang , Scott Chan , and Wai Ching Ho
Manufacturer: New World Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

Operettas | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

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Classical | Indie Music | Stores | Music
ASIN: B00080AQC4
Release Date: 2005-04-04

Tracks:

Scene 1
Scene 2
Scene 3
Scene 4
Scene 5
Scene 6

Tracks:

Scene 7
Scene 8
Scene 9
Scene 10

Product Description

Jason Kao Hwang (b. 1957) is a highly respected improviser who also has a number of compositions and film scores to his credit. The Floating Box is a major contemporary work that gives voice not only to the Asian immigrant experience in America in particular but also to the immigrant experience in general. With the collaboration of librettist Catherine Filloux, The Floating Box is an original story inspired by the oral histories of Chinese-Americans living in Chinatown. The story of Eva/Yee-Wa, a young Chinese-American woman living with her mother, is the story of many diasporic peoples who have sought a better life in new, often harsh surroundings. The poetry of FillouxÂ’s libretto fuses perfectly with HwangÂ’s eclectic score, beautifully capturing the complex, intimate relationships among these three characters. The opera employs both Chinese and Western instruments in an ensemble of eight players: piccolo/flute/alto flute; Bb clarinet/bass clarinet; vibraphone; pipa (Chinese lute); accordion; percussion, including Tibetan chimes and singing bowls, whirling air tubes, Chinese tom toms, and a Buddhist fan drum; erhu/gaohu/zhonghu (a family of two-stringed Chinese violins categorized as huqin); and cello. In HwangÂ’s skilled hands, these instruments together forge a rich amalgam of soundÂ—in the composerÂ’s words, Â“complex suspensions rather than homogenous solutions.Â” The precision with which Hwang mines each instrumentÂ’s sonic possibilities and the imaginative ways with which he draws upon subsets of the full ensemble result in a vibrant musical narrative that propels the drama forward to its conclusion. The kaleidoscopic range of musical styles employed--atonality, blues, Broadway, Chinese opera, chromaticism, impressionism, jazz, pop--establishes The Floating Box as the work of an artist who is completely comfortable bridging multiple musical worlds.