Haotian Yu: after Xin Qiji I

Haotian Yu

The music of Chinese-Canadian composer Haotian Yu (b. 1998) centers postcolonial experience through the specific cultural lens of Chinese tradition. In works for chamber ensemble, electronics, and Chinese instruments, objects of culture—instruments, performance practices, field recordings—are subject to a composed Foucauldian genealogy, in which sonic and conceptual analyses address the ideological and socio-functional dimensions of…

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