Music Video work Invisible Wounds was inspired from a trip in Baoshan Stone village of Lijiang in 2018, which support by Found Sound China.Though I have finished the music on 2019, it took 4 years to find the most fit way to present it. 
Head to The Wire website 
(www.thewire.co.uk/video/chunyang-yao-invisible-wounds) 
to view this video, featuring a movement performance and footage of Boashan Stone Village. 


2018年美国教育部赞助的Found Sound China项目支持，我和摄影师阿云，老狗在宝山石头城进行采风。当时我们采集了大量的航拍素材，惊叹于村落与大自然之间的博弈。心心念着这些素材不断构思、尝试、否定到最后定稿，历时4年，终于于4月完成了这个音乐视频作品，并在The Wire Magazine发布。 
YouTube > www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjYRttZoQOY 
Bilibili (China mainland) > www.bilibili.com/video/BV11B4y1u73P
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released June 3, 2021 
Composed, produced by Chunyang Yao 
Mixed by Keju Luo 
Photo by Camellia Lin

Invisible Wounds

Unopened

Shining Cracks is an album inspired by a quote from Emil Cioran: “The moments of refinement conceal a death-principle: nothing is more fragile than subtlety.” , this album is a journey for seizing the “death-principle”, by “carving” the timbre, organization and texture of the sound. 

Chunyang Yao is a composer and electronic musician from Lijiang, China. She studied composing & composition theory at Music Conservatory of Shanghai. Her music is based on contemporary composition techniques and electronic noise aesthetics. In 2014, she launched her solo electronic music and voice performance project. 
  
One of Chunyang’s primary music field is the traditional music of the Nakhi, an ethnic group from Yunnan. As a Nakhi herself, she concentrates on exploring the possibilities of Nakhi traditional music and the phonetics of the Nakhi language. Nakhi music elements are extensively implemented in her music.
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released June 27, 2016 

Composed & produced by Chunyang Yao 
Vocal, field recording & analog synthesizer by Chunyang Yao 
Mixed & mastered by Keju Luo 
Illustration by Bunny 
Designed by Tian Yuan 

Sound Above Cloud - field record from 2014 performance “Temperature” performed by Sylvie Xing Chen and Gabriel Mareque. 

Thanks to Baishui 

Release in Blanksounds

03.shy

04.shining Cracks

08.sound Above Cloud

07.mud Hole

06.itchy

05.golden Air

The basic materials of this EP are recordings from a live show at Basement 6, Shanghai, which took place in 2016. I re-created these four excerpts by using field recording resources, which I collected around 2014-2016, the new sounds outline a net of time. During the process, this time net is folding and overlaying, creating countless new sparkling, colorful and mysterious dots. This process of “live rework” was an unknown trip, which became a surprising adventure for me. I hope these four pieces of “live rework” could freeze a time for me, for you. it can be a trip, a trip that you don’t bother to think where it takes place or to where it leads. 
1.In The Mountain
     + Road at Guishan, Stone forest, Yunnan
2. A Naxi Doze
    + Birds at Khao Sok National Park, Thailand
3. Running Seeds
    + Night rain at Khao Lak, Thailand
4. Hidden Meadows
    + Water stream, Dayan Town, Lijiang, Yunnan

Released on Blanksounds BS15
Composed, produced by Chunyang Yao
Recorded by SoundSpade(B. Bacon) at Basement 6, Shanghai, China
Mixed & mastered by Jinliang Zhang
Photography: A Yun
Designed by Tian Yuan

04.Hidden Meadows

02.A Naxi Doze

01.In The Mountain

03.Running Seeds

This excerpt is from a show which is in collaboration with poem and dance. The lyrics of this piece is from poem "Madame Bovary and Boule de SuiThey" wrote by Chang Tan. 

"其实谁都有觉得自己是羊脂球的时候 
她们只是不说罢了，她们把嘴唇咬破 
干巴巴吞进深夜里委屈的肚皮 
即使脸被涂黑还要咧嘴讪笑 
假装自己属于欺负羊脂球那群人" 
"In fact, every girl sometimes feel that she herself is Boule de Suif， 
However, she just don’t admit it, biting into her dry lips and 
Swallow her suffer into belly in the deep night. 
Grinning gracefully even if her delicate makeover is stained, 
She pretends to be in the group who are bullying Boule de Suif."
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released August 1, 2019 
Live recorded on March, 2019 at 53 Museum, Guangzhou 
Vocal: Chunyang Yao 
Electronics: Chunyang Yao 
Arranged by Chunyang Yao 
Photo by Gary Chen
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Boule De Suif

         《重回文峰寺》是纳西传统诗歌中的一朵奇葩。它由清代杨元之（约1848-1892年）用汉纳双语写成：汉语诗体为五言绝句，用纳西语音朗诵又得到另一种不同的诗意。这便形成了一诗双语，两种意境的奇特效果。音乐的创意即由此而生：两首歌曲皆用《重回文峰寺》的诗歌，曲一用汉语演唱，曲二用纳西语演唱。它的语言与诗意截然不同，但诗歌的载体却是同样的。希望在音乐中也能体现和演绎出汉纳双语的不同风格与其内在联系 。



"Return Wenfeng Temple" is a Naxi traditional poetry, written by Yuanzhi Yang (approximately 1848-1892) with Manderin-Naxi bilingual.

This poem is using Five-characters of mandarin Chinese as quatrains of verse, but these very same characters have a different meaning if recite in Naxi pronunciation. Via this unique phenomenon of different languages using the same characters with a total different meaning, the author brings to life two different artistic conceptions, along with two Musical ideas that are inspired from it, by using one text. 

The poem with its dual meaning is divided to two parts. 1st part sings in mandarin Chinese, 2nd part sings in Naxi language. I hope the music can also reflect and deduce Chinese and Naxi bilingual intrinsically linked to their different styles


Soprano: Jiao Li
Flute: Qijia Yang
ContraBass: Xiaoyun Hou
Clarinet:?
Piano: Xintong Su
Violin: Beibei Sheng 
Viola: ?
Percussion:?
Conductor: Chao Wang 
Performed in Lvting He concert, 2011, Shanghai  


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