| TAN Dun |
Music Visual In an empty bunker, Tan Dun's Music Visual features multi-media counter-point of sound, image, space and time through the action of smashing one hundred pianos.Tan says of Music Visual, "every abandoned piano has a story behind it...with harmony and rhythm that continue an old story, as if responding to their faded owners, telling the untold, and answering the unanswered...History, time and disaster can destroy the surface of all entities. However, is anything eternal?" Tan Dun was born in 1957 in Hunan Province, China and currently lives in New York City. He attended the Central Conservatory of Music, Beijing and has a PhD from Columbia University. An internationally renowned composer and conductor, Tan's work blurs boundaries between classical and modern, and multi-media and indigenous art form. Tan has won many awards, including a Grawemeyer, a Grammy, and an Oscar for Best Original Music (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) and the U.S. Music Association Best Composer award in 2003. Currently he is working on commissions for the New York Metropolitan Opera and the Berlin Philharmoniker. For more information on Tan Dun, please visit www.tandunonline.com |
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