RAYMOND YIU (b. 1973)The Earth and Every Common Sight (2010/2013)

Author(s):  
Jane Manning

This chapter examines Hong Kong-born composer Raymond Yiu’s The Earth and Every Common Sight (2010/13). This appealing cycle, written in a fluent, highly attractive idiom, is a fine example of Yiu’s expertise. Each song has an individual character and the six main movements are interspersed with two ‘Intermezzos’, setting words of Charles Darwin. Throughout, the voice–piano relationship is perfectly caught and words are set scrupulously. The composer shows a fine ear for balance and commands a range of contrasting styles with consummate ease. Wisely, he confines the vocal range to the treble stave for the most part, thereby ensuring clarity of text and variety of expression without putting the singer under duress. Despite a lack of extreme high notes, this is definitely for soprano rather than mezzo.

1993 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-95
Author(s):  
Frances Fisher Kaplan
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2015 ◽  
Vol 42 (5) ◽  
pp. 477-499
Author(s):  
Michael John Paton

The 2011 tsunami had a devastating effect on the east coast of Japan. Particularly poignant were the century-old markers on hillsides warning against building anywhere below. Nevertheless, such wisdom from traditional knowledge was disregarded because of the perceived invulnerability of the modern. This paper attempts to garner such traditional empirical knowledge regarding the siting of towns and cities by considering the Chinese art/science of fengshui (wind and water) or dili (principles of the earth), the original purpose of which was to site human habitation in the most favourable places for long term survival. This knowledge is then used to consider the placement of cities created by modernity, those founded on and flourishing through the advent of globalisation, such as Hong Kong, Shanghai, St Petersburg, and Sydney.


2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 510
Author(s):  
I Wayan Darya

<p><em>Types of gamelan that exist in the earth comes from the voice of Genta Pinara Pitu which became the inspiration of the birth gamelan in the realms of the Gods, Rsi, and also on the nature of Bhuta Kala. Furthermore, humans are also inspired to create various types of gamelan, including gamelan Gong Gede Saih Pitu in Banjar Kebon Singapadu. Gamelan can be used as a ritual medium that essentially has a deep theological meaning. Tones of the gamelan are the nyasa (sacred symbols) of the ista dewata who control all directions which form a circle called the pemgider bhuana. Playing one tone means having direct contact with one of the gods. However, the understanding of the existence of Gamelan Gong Gede Saih Pitu about the concept of ideas, structure, barrel, patih / saih, and the type of tetabuhan that it uses, need to be studied further to deepen the existence of Gong Gede Saih Pitu gamelan in Hindu theological perspective hindu ritual. This research uses qualitative research method with theological approach. Problem solving using Structural Theory, Symbol Theory, and Structural Functional Theory to dissect the gamelan's theatrical structure, function, and meaning of Gong Gede Saih Pitu in Banjar Kebon Singapadu.</em></p><p><em>Data obtained from the text and obtained in the field through observation and interview, then processed and analyzed in accordance with the theory used with the method of theological approach, then obtained the result that the gamelan Gong Gede Saih Pitu as a form of art that developed today, has the theological concept derived from the sound of pale pent in the pangider bhuana circle, and its existence not only as an accompaniment of ritual procession and as a cultural development, but has a religious function and psychological function, and contains philosophical-theological meaning, aesthetic meaning, and grandeur, and dignity, which shows how great the concept of the gamelan is as the implementation of Hindu theological tones.</em></p><p><em>Through the results of this research will materialize the understanding of gamelan theology contained in the lontar Prakempa and Aji Gurnitha, and dismissed the notion of the use of gamelan in Hindu rituals as a tradition of mule keto which is identical with the euphoria of splendor to enliven the atmosphere of the ceremony.</em></p>


2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (5) ◽  
pp. 609-642 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jackie Jia Lou ◽  
Adam Jaworski

Abstract The pro-democracy occupation of three commercial and retail areas in Hong Kong that lasted over two months in the fall of 2014 – known as the Umbrella Movement – created a myth of Utopia (Barthes 1984 [1954]). In this paper, we track the itineraries (Scollon 2008) and resemiotizations (Iedema 2003) of the protest signage to show how they mythologized the Movement by “branding space”, “regulating and disciplining actions”, and “unifying the voice of protest”. We argue that the semiotic processes and effects involved in the emplacement and widespread distribution of the protest signage were not only key in the mobilization during the Movement but also the emergence and reinforcement of a “new” Hongkonger identity in the long run.


Author(s):  
Omar Olivares Sandoval

Jazairy, E. H. (ed.; 2011), New Geographies 4. Scales of the Earth, Harvard University Press, Hong Kong, 184 p., ISBN 978-1-934510-27-8


Literator ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 69-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Polatinsky

“A change of tongue”, Antjie Krog’s second creative non-fiction, articulates experiences of the postapartheid quotidian in two tongues: that of the journalist and that of the poet. This article examines Krog’s various instantiations of the poetic voice, and argues that the site of the body is crucial to Krog’s understanding of how languages and landscapes are translated into human experiences of belonging, alienation and self-expression. The voice that is inspired by, and best conjures these acts of somatic translation is the poetic voice, Krog suggests. The article argues that Krog endows the poetic tongue with particular capacities for synaesthetic perception and for modes of imagining that surrender many of the limitations we ascribe to other registers and grammars. Despite the profusion of challenges and setbacks expressed by the evidence-oriented journalist, the three poetic strands in the text, which are identified and explored in this article, provide a space of meditation and of refreshed language in which processes of hopeful revivification can occur.


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