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Bun Ching Lam - EO-9066
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| Item Type: sound recording |
| Duration: 15:21 |
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E.O. 9066 was composed in collaboration with San Francisco Bay Area choreographer June Watanabe. The title refers to the Executive Order given by President Franklin Roosevelt calling for the internment of Japanese Americans during the second World War. June and her family were among the 110,000 people held in camps for three years. The piece starts with wind sounds, graduall a word emerges and it ends with a vocal quartet singing "Shikataganai," which means "it cannot be helped" in Japanese. Almost all of the material for the tape was generate from vocal sounds, then assembled using a sampler. There was also a live vocal quartet at the original perfomance, singing three choruses. Born in Macau, Bun-Ching Lam has studied with David Gwilt, Bernard Rands, Robert Erickson, Roger Reynolds, Pauline Oliveros, and Thomas Nee. She received the degree of Docter of Philosophy at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle. Winner of many prizes and grants, shehas also been invited to conduct the Macau Sinfonietta, and has been commissioned by Ursula Oppens an the Arditti Quartet, the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra, and Fritz Hauser. She currently lives and works in New York.
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| Publication: Tellus #26 |
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