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Byron Au Yong - Kidnapping Water: Bottled Water remix

from Soundscapes 2016 by USF Performing Arts & Social Justice

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One summer, I was overcome in the bottled water section of a Seattle supermarket. I heard voices from Poland Spring and Fiji cry out. Bottled water was kidnapped and taken far from home.

Thinking about the displacement of water around the world in tiny unsustainable containers that when discarded choke ocean currents, I created 64 musical miniatures for hiking opera singers and water percussionists, with eight librettists from different cultural and aesthetic backgrounds. While composing, I was inspired by listening to water, while using the structure of the 64 hexagrams in the 易經 I-Ching (Book of Changes).

Kidnapping Water: Bottled Water is available as site-responsive performances and a media installation. This audio is an excerpt from the full-length installation.

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from Soundscapes 2016, released December 5, 2016
Composer Byron Au Yong
Librettists Eugenie Chan, Bret Fetzer, Aaron Jafferis, Archana Kumar, Carola Luther, Caroline Murphy, Vivian Umino, Edisa Weeks
Singers Josie Davis, Emily Greenleaf, Jeremiah Oliver, David Stutz
Percussionists Stuart McLeod, Dean Moore, Benjamin Morrow, James Whetzel
Audio Engineers Tom Stiles & CJ Lazenby

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