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Chen​-​Hui Jen: Onto the Silent Peaks

from Dream Dialogues by Misty Shore Duo

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老去的日子裡我還為你寧馨
彈琴,送你航向拜占庭
在將盡未盡的地方中斷,靜
這裡是一切的峰頂
─ 楊牧《時光命題》


Still in the days of my aging, I shall do so for you –
play the piano, see you to the ship bound for
Byzantium
with music close to fading. Silence
here is beyond all summits
-Yang Mu "Propositions of Temporality"
English translation by Wen-chi Li and Colin Bramwell

The piece's title evokes Yang Mu's poem "Propositions of Temporality." After I wrote into silence, and keep falling four years ago, this composition is another work where I seek a state of silence. Specifically, I drew a particular interest and made an intimate connection to the concept of "silence" in the poem – the ultimate moment after all the waves of a lifetime. I have been repeatedly thinking about this idea in the last few years to make up a specific part of myself from the past – to awaken and hear those inner voices. To realize this goal, I created a musical texture full of many symbols such as ocean waves, distant bells, and fading traces on the water, to aurally send myself to both an initial and the final state of silence.

– Chen-Hui Jen

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from Dream Dialogues, released June 20, 2020

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Misty Shore Duo (Chen-Hui Jen & Jacob Sudol) Miami, Florida

Composer and performer duo with Dr. Chen-Hui Jen (piano/composition) and Dr. Jacob Sudol (computer/composition).

Dedicated to presenting and promoting contemporary music with any combination of piano and electronics, with a special emphasis on works by Asian, female, and minority composers.
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