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我​們​的​歌 (Our Song)

from Traces by Louise Rossiter

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我們的歌 (Our Song) was written upon return from my second trip to China in May 2013. On this occasion I visited Beijing (Peking province), Xi’an (Shaanxi province) and Chengdu (Sichuan province).
During my previous trip to Shanghai in 2011, I suffered from an aural and visual culture shock. The sheer size of Shanghai and the way of life there stunned me. As a result of this, I had a number of preconceptions as to what I would hear and see this time around.
However, I was pleasantly surprised when I found that I was able to fully embrace Chinese life. What I discovered was a massive variety of culture, colour, music and lifestyle, along with some surprising similarities to Scottish tradition.
This work follows on from my previous work ‘Culture Shock’ (2011) and explores expectation of place- how one can have preconceptions of a particular place through sound. The sound of bikes zooming down tiny hutongs may for some, remind them of a particular place, or, of a past memory of a place. A particular experience may also be associated with particular aural memories or sounds, and this is what I aim to explore through this piece.
我們的歌 (Our Song) was commissioned by Scotland China Education Network and the University of Aberdeen Confucius Institute. It was composed in the studios of Music, Technology and Innovation Research Centre, De Montfort University between June and July 2013.

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from Traces, released May 10, 2014

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