寂寞 Ji Mo: The Stillness of Solitude slideshow of work by composer Byron Au Yong in collaboration with Michelle Fujii, Karen Akada Sakata and Toru Watanabe. Costumes by Michelle Kumata. Photographs by Jean-Stephane.
Instrumentation includes voices, 塤 xun (clay flute), 二胡 er-hu (fiddle), 太鼓 Chinese drums, bamboo, water and rocks remixed in March 2011, from recordings of a live performance at Lincoln Hall in Portland, Oregon, USA.
寂寞 Ji Mo: The Stillness of Solitude was commissioned by Portland Taiko in 2007. Creating this slideshow was prompted by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan.
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