Aug 11, 2008 | 11:30am
Seattle City Hall and Various Downtown Sites
Presented in Partnership with:
City of Seattle Mayor's Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs
Aug 16, 2008 | All Day
Various Sites in Des Moines
Presented in Partnership with:
City of Des Moines
Byron Au Yong
Kidnapping Water: Bottled Operas
Kidnapping Water: Bottled Operas is a musical work for voices, Chinese percussion, water, handmade instruments and found objects by composer Byron Au Yong. With a creative team of adventurous classical and avant-garde opera singers these site-specific vignettes performed in , on and around various waterways and fountains throughout King County include songs of human foibles set amidst tales of droughts, floods and bottled water.
Byron Au Yong creates musical events scored for Asian, European, and hand-made instruments. His works have been featured in venues that include the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg, Seattle Aquarium, and Tokyo Art Museum.
Recent projects include Piao Zhu: Flying Bamboo created for the Seattle Asian Art Museum, Surrender: A T'ai Qi Cantata commissioned by The Esoterics and YIJU: Songs of Dislocation developed at the Jack Straw New Media Gallery.
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