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- for clarinet, tape, video and slides
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- Duration:
- 12' 00"
- Instrumentation:
- electroacoustic tape, proj video, mobile video, slides, with music theatre elements
Samples
 | Score (801k) | Page 1 | © Juliet Palmer |
 | Recording (2477k) ©Juliet Palmer | Excerpt from 'Three Poems From the Bulin File' by Juliet Palmer Camerman: Simon Rabie. Text by Gu Cheng. | © Juliet Palmer |
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- This work has a score and a recording
Programme Note
Gu Cheng, the exiled Chinese poet whose poetry and person form the basis of 3 Poems, lived on a small island in Auckland’s Hauraki Gulf. The video images are of Gu Cheng and his poet wife Xie Ye on Waiheke Island, animations of Gu Cheng’s disturbingly whimsical drawings and the poem’s Chinese text. The tape uses diverse sounds and music – cooking oil, a Russian folksong sung in Chinese by the couple and – potatoes!
- Text Note:
- Text: Gu Cheng
- Commissioned:
- Commissioned by the Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council Film and Video Fund (now Creative New Zealand) and the New Zealand-China Educational Foundation
- Difficulty:
- Advanced
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