Broke

How do you speak the unspeakable while you speak.

Utterness

Performed by M.O. Abbott and Drew Farrar

This piece is composed within 24 hours under the event 24 Hours Composathon of UIUC Group of New Music. It is an illustration of how two individuals find their path overlapped to each other as if footprints layered and stepped over again and again.

'Tis in Footprints *prototype version

This piece was inspired by a ritual in the night of Guan-Tien, Tainan, Taiwan, winter 2002. I was drunk that night, participating a Taoism influenced aboriginal night cult. The ritual itself is a celebration of harvesting and birth, indicating an end of the year and the start of a new one. The whole experience started from having foods and drinks at the festival’s food market as one wait for the ritual to start. As the villagers gather, four shamans went up to their temple, and only one will be fused by the very spirit of their god. The god will then greet his followers and bless them with burning scents. The whole process gradually turned into a big line: followers followed the shaman, circling the temple square as the god greets every participant with blessings. And there was Ho, joining the crowd drunk while not participating as a follower but an observer. Years later, I recall my memories and composed it into music: a sonification of the whole process of secular/sacred transformation during the ritual. The piece consists of two movements: movement I stands for the night market nearby, movement II the ritual itself.

Ho, Pinda - Night Cult 2018

__ Of Conducted Chaos

A commission for 行行製作(TW)/Bourrée Studio's production "Afterparty," a modern dance piece discussing the collective loneliness found in parties, convo over drinks, and dance. The link for the compressed promo version will be provided shortly.

Pinda Ho

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