DESCRIPTION:
Zhengshan Shi, piano (Stanford)
Zhao Cong, pipa (Stanford)
Emily Graber, violin (Stanford)

Justin Balk, saxophone (Kansas City)
Monte Taylor, electric guitar (Kansas City)
Synthia Payne, vocals (Kansas City)

Performance from CCRMA TeleConcert
Bing Concert Hall Studio, Stanford. March 15, 2014
https://ccrma.stanford.edu/events/ccrma-teleconcert

From the program note:

Forest for the Trees

Six musicians in two separate locations via Internet2 and Google Fiber. What happens when people have a finite amount of time and limited visual reference to find out what is going on around them and signal their presence? Listen and see. Each musician is a tree in the ecosystem of the forest, however, in this case especially, they cannot see the entire forest they are a part of. Each instrument take a turn with a 5 second solo sounding. Other players listen deeply to the sound of each instrument. The forest is a drone. Everyone begin a drone together and over a minute or so study the other sounds. Begin to use embellishments to mimic another instrument. Come back to the drone after each mimicking. Players map their own path, which can repeat, backtrack, whatever, no rules.

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