Ma Yuan’s ink wash painting series Water Album features seemingly degraded art. Faded ink, yellowed paper, and the residue of time are defining characteristics of her work. However instead of viewing this as damage, I see this loss of information as an integral part of the work. This idea is also the theme of my Water Album works. From the purely physical phenomena to the cultural level, I explore the disappearance of sounds from multiple different prospective and present them in a non-linear way. In 2018-20, I composed four Water Albums, which are ensemble pieces of different instrumentation. Even though they are inspired by Ma Yuan's Twelve Water Albums, they do not point to any specific images. They are more about looking for a tangible connection between the water as a cultural symbol and personal emotions. The theme of the Water Album #4 Realms of Interim is "rippling". On the macroscopic level, there are three layers of time in the piece. These layers correspond to the unknown universe, our time, and the time of the witness (or narrator, who will travel between the time spaces and tell the story). On the microscopic level, the music will expose the fact that all these three layers are indeed interconnected; an event that happens in one layer will affect the others and creating a rippling effect.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:bu.edu/oai:open.bu.edu:2144/41049 |
| Date | 20 May 2020 |
| Creators | Hui, Tak Cheung |
| Contributors | Fineberg, Joshua |
| Source Sets | Boston University |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis/Dissertation |
| Rights | Attribution 4.0 International, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
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