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Excerpts of music: Suksma by Sutrisno Hartana, Ghostly Moon by Barry Truax.
These are excerpts chosen from the Orchid Ensemble and Flicker Media's 2008 production "Ghost Project' at the Roundhouse Community Centre in Vancouver.

The Ghost Project tells the story of a love that breaks the boundary between life and death, depicts different shapes and forms of ghost images, and
celebrates joy and sorrow in cycles of life.

musicians: Lan Tung - erhu; Jonathan Bernard - percussion; Sutrisno Hartana - vocal, dance, percussion; Kenneth Newby - gender, media arts; Aleksandra Dulic - media arts, scenographic installation, animation.

In a world where mystical creatures and spirits roam across the
stage, the artists explore the philosophy of yin and yang to search
for a connection between humans and the spirits, expressed
through abstraction and suggestion. With the combination of Asian
esthetics and modern video technology, they are inspired by a
shared curiosity of the after-life.


Suksma in an old Javanese language that means spirit, soul, abstract, maya. It refers to the world of spirit that is unseen. The concept of birth, life, death, birth, live, death is a good example of cyclical journey of suksma.

The Ghostly Moon is a music theatre work inspired by the tradition of Chinese ghost stories, many of which are centred on a female ghost who wishes to return to life. In this case, the story combines elements and poetry from many different sources from the 16th to the 18th centuries, and portrays the ghost as a wronged woman who returns for vengeance. However, the young scholar she visits is the brother of the man who betrayed her, and once she hears his voice she realizes this is her true lover. To return to life she must join with him as his wife, which is the outcome of many of the traditional Chinese tales. The disembodied theatrical effects from traditional Chinese drama suggested a contemporary treatment with electroacoustic techniques.

【鬼域】(Ghost Project) 由蘭韻中樂團的團長董籃，聯合藝術家亞麗桑卓‧杜麗、肯納斯‧紐比和瑟綷斯諾‧哈他納共同創作，和Roundhouse社區藝術中心共同舉辦，並由董籃製作。本著對生命結­束後靈魂的歸宿的好奇，他們彼此分享著台灣、東歐、加拿大、和印尼等不同文化的背景。經由對民間傳說與信仰的審視，並透過音樂、舞蹈、多媒體藝術和裝置藝術，藝術家們在萬­聖節的週末，將Roundhouse演藝中心的舞台，變身為ㄧ座鬼影幢幢的鬼屋。


這場演出結合了亞洲的審美觀與現代的映像科技，讓來自神秘世界的幽靈飄盪在舞台上。圍繞音樂家們的視覺動畫，運用古代神話和傳統民間藝術中鬼的形象，投影在迷濛的森林、中­國書法、和現代抽象畫的多層次背景上，營造出ㄧ種詭譎的景象。

音樂方面，它組合了印尼甘美朗(gamelan)音樂中的音階、聲韻及互鎖的節奏模式，中國音樂的抒情語法及吐納，以及西方音樂的合諧與精準。作曲家貝利‧ 圖艾克斯、張進、董籃、肯納斯‧紐比、瑟綷斯諾‧哈他納、法敘德‧沙曼達利、和王亞雯分別為這場演出創作音樂，結合亞洲和西方不同樂器，加上電腦合成音響，合唱曲，到人聲­說話，音樂家們創造了一個豐富的聲響環境，而多媒體藝術家使用視聽科技製作的新軟體，將現場演奏的音樂捕捉來牽動影像，更增添了鬼魅的氣氛。

蘭韻中樂團成立于1997年，二胡、箏、打擊樂的樂器組合，以古典與現代結合，曲目豐富多樣並不斷創新，跨越中國傳統及現代風格、包含結合西洋作曲法及東方藝術思維的原創­樂曲，並嘗­­­試世界音樂、爵士樂及即興演奏。溫哥華The Georgia Straight 週報曾形容蘭韻中樂團是"世界音樂的百花中，綻放得最明麗的奇葩之一"。
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• Orchid Ensemble
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• Jonathan Bernard
• Aleksandra Dulic
• Kenneth Newby
• 2008
• Halloween
• interdisciplinary
• ghost
• fusion
• east meets west
• Chinese
• Indonesian
• gamelan
• Javanese
• gender
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