DESCRIPTION:
Recorded live at the 2008 production of Ghost Project: dancer - Sutrisno Hartana, Orchid Ensemble - Lan Tung (erhu), Gelina Jiang (zheng), Jonathan Bernard (percussion); media arts by Aleksandra Dulic and Kenneth Newby (Flicker Media); music composed by Kenneth Newby.
Written as part of the Sirens cycle compositions dedicated to the divine female across cultures, this particular piece of music is for the Cretan goddess of childbirth and midwiving and was composed after the birth of my son Ashlan. The work is in A/B/A form with a rhythmic cycle of 16 + 20 + 12 for A and 8 + 6 for B. The marimba/harp, erhu and bass guitar parts share three pitches in common but deviate in two others to create a delicious melodic tension characteristic of some forms of Javanese music. Interlocking parts characteristic of Balinese kotekan technique are played between the marimba, harp and bass guitar. The video composition makes use of live visual processing to transform the live performer into ghosts beyond the screens.

選自【鬼域】多媒體音樂會，蘭韻中樂團， 董籃－二胡，江革玲－古箏，肯納斯‧紐比作曲。

【鬼域】(Ghost Project) 由蘭韻中樂團的團長董籃，聯合藝術家亞麗桑卓‧杜麗、肯納斯‧紐比和瑟綷斯諾‧哈他納共同創作，和Roundhouse社區藝術中心共同舉辦，並由董籃製作。本著對生命結束後靈魂的歸宿的好奇，他們彼此分享著台灣、東歐、加拿大、和印尼等不同文化的背景。經由對民間傳說與信仰的審視，並透過音樂、舞蹈、多媒體藝術和裝置藝術，藝術家們在萬聖節的週末，將Roundhouse演藝中心的舞台，變身為ㄧ座鬼影幢幢的鬼屋。

這場演出結合了亞洲的審美觀與現代的映像科技，讓來自神秘世界的幽靈飄盪在舞台上。圍繞音樂家們的視覺動畫，運用古代神話和傳統民間藝術中鬼的形象，投影在迷濛的森林、中國書法、和現代抽象畫的多層次背景上，營造出一種詭譎的景象。

蘭韻中樂團成立于1997年，二胡、箏、打擊樂的樂器組合，以古典與現代結合，曲目豐富多樣並不斷創新，跨越中國傳統及現代風格、包含結合西洋作曲法及東方藝術思維的原創­樂曲，並嘗­­­試世界音樂、爵士樂及即興演奏。溫哥華The Georgia Straight 週報曾形容蘭韻中樂團是"世界音樂的百花中，綻放得最明麗的奇葩之一"。
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