San
by Du Yun
- Instrumentation
- Cello, Accompanying Electronics
- Composed
- 2002
- Duration
- 11'
- Publisher
- G. Schirmer
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About this piece
San (also written Sanº) is a piece for cello and fixed electronic tape, written in 2002 and first performed by Frances-Marie Uitti at Harvard University in 2003. In her program note, Du Yun describes it as her "inner hearing" of Guang Ling San, an ancient piece for the Chinese qin associated with Ji Kang, who is said to have played it publicly just before his execution in 262 AD; she used the computer to magnify small details of that inner listening. G. Schirmer's edition supplies the tape as five stereo MP3 files, one per movement, so performance needs playback and speakers. Matt Haimovitz recorded it on his album Orbit: Music for Solo Cello (1945–2014).
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