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Culture Shock

from Traces by Louise Rossiter

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In October 2011, I was fortunate enough to be selected as a finalist in the New Generation Composition Competition as part of Electronic Music Week in Shanghai, Peoples Republic of China. I was even more fortunate to be able to attend the performance and the associated conference.
The trip to China has been an absolute revelation to me. Although I had visited Asia before and have travelled extensively, I had my first experience of Culture Shock. I was quite overcome by the language barrier and by the way of life in general. Many things were new to me – wet markets with live animals being bought and then slaughtered, mopeds everywhere, the most confusing pedestrian crossing system I have ever known…
As well as experiencing a ‘visual’ culture shock, I also feel that I suffered from an ‘aural’ culture shock. As part of my normal ‘going abroad’ ritual, I took some basic recording equipment – a microtrack recorder and some binaural headphones. However, despite having a written record of all the recordings I made, some come to the foreground of my memory far more quickly than others – almost like they would in a dream. I would refer to these as Aural Landmarks or Earcons.
One of the most beautiful and mesmerising things I heard in China was the sound of a yangqin playing the traditional tune Zi Zhu Diao (The Purple Bamboo). As such, it plays an important part in this piece.
Culture Shock was realised in the studios of the University of Edinburgh in Spring 2012.

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from Traces, released May 10, 2014

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