ROCO Connections: Voices of Vietnam was recorded live at Asia Society Texas Center on March 29th, 2025, spotlighting music by Asian artists and composers, exploring the experiences of Vietnamese immigrants.

Tenor Nicholas Phan featured in Vivian Fung’s elegaic Lamenting Earth and in the world premiere of Season 20 Composer-In-Residence Viet Cuong’s song cycle, Second Shore, telling the story of his family’s escape from Saigon, complimented by Cuong’s driving septet Pulse Train.

Emmy Award-winning composer and traditional musician Vân-Ánh Vanessa Võ and the Blood Moon Orchestra trio joined ROCO string musicians, blending the wonderfully unique sounds of Vietnamese instruments with classical chamber music and fusing deeply rooted musical traditions with fresh new structures.

Audio engineering by Andrew Bradley



Van Thanh Nho/Vanessa Võ, Lullaby for a Country

Viet Cuong, Pulse Train

Viet Cuong, Second Shore

Vanessa Võ/Joel Davel, Encounter & Running

Vân-Ánh Vanessa Võ, Lullaby for a Country - A New Day, IV. Fire

Tracklist:
00:00 Phép Màu
03:33 Anh Vui
07:11 Lễ Đường
10:58 Thế Hệ Tan Vỡ
15:37 Nắng Có Mang Em Về
19:51 Mưa Rơi Vào Phòng
23:38 Là Từ Lúc
27:48 Anh Chẳng Thể
31:50 Kẻ Theo Đuổi Ánh Sáng
35:02 Anh Đã Từ Bỏ Rồi Đấy

Phép Màu, Lễ Đường ♬ Nhạc Lofi Chill 2025

Một Đêm (One Night)

“Mưa Hồng (Vietnamese Trance)

1) VAN NGUYEN - DE ANH LUONG THIEN
2) Du Trai Se Tham - Phillip Lee
3) Cạn Tình Như Thế  - DongHai
4) Vĩnh Biệt Màu Xanh - TH
5) Le Tinh x Cho Em Trong Dem 2024 - NM
6) Dang Em - Phillip Lee
7) Ban Duyen - DO BINH  ft Phillip
8) Phillip x CT - CHUA BAO GIO EM QUEN
9) Song Xa Anh ft Lan Cuoi - TH x Phillip 
10) DUNG KHIEN TRAI TIM EM KHOC - Phillip 
11) TINH OI XIN BUONG THA - Theary Alex
12) 若月亮没来_x_演唱会官摄-Theary Alex

Vina_set - 2025.07.30

Lyrics - lời bài hát 

Giữa thành phố chuyển mình mỗi sáng
(In the city that transforms every morning)
Bao ước mơ vươn thật xa
(So many dreams reach far away)
Chúng tôi lớn lên cùng ánh sáng
(We grow up with the light)
Của khoa học, của khát khao
(Of science, of aspiration)

Gió mang theo bao đổi thay
(The wind brings so many changes)
Nỗi lo toan cùng bao thử thách
(Worries and challenges come together)
Nhưng lòng người không ngại gian nan
(But our hearts do not fear hardship)
Vững về phía mai sau
(Standing firm toward tomorrow)

Chúng ta là dòng trẻ Việt Nam
(We are the young generation of Vietnam)
Mang trong tim bao trách nhiệm
(Bearing so many responsibilities in our hearts)
Cùng chung tay, xây ngày mai vững bền
(Joining hands to build a sustainable future)
Niềm tin xanh – lan tỏa khắp nơi
(Green faith – spreading everywhere)

Trước những âu lo về môi trường
(Facing environmental concerns)
Ta không lùi bước sợ hãi
(We do not back down in fear)
Biết đo lường, biết sửa sai
(Knowing how to measure, knowing how to fix mistakes)
Vững bước đi giữa bao đổi thay
(Steadily moving forward through changes)

Tương lai là những dòng số mới
(The future is new streams of numbers)
Cùng trí tuệ, cùng lòng kiên cường
(With intelligence, with resilience)
Vì đất nước, vì tiếng gọi non sông
(For the nation, for the homeland’s call)
Khát vọng lớn không ngừng
(Great aspirations never cease)

Chúng ta – dòng trẻ của thời đại số
(We – the youth of the digital era)
Kiến tạo tương lai bằng công nghệ và tình người
(Creating the future with technology and humanity)
Vượt qua giới hạn, xóa tan mọi khoảng cách
(Overcoming limits, erasing all distances)
Chạm đến ước mơ cùng nhau đi xa
(Reaching for our dreams, going far together)

Dẫu mai này vạn sự đổi thay
(Even if everything changes tomorrow)
Luôn giữ vững niềm tin trong tim
(Always keep faith in your heart)
Bởi mỗi bước chân là một phép đo
(Because every step is a measurement)
Khắc ghi tương lai từ những hôm nay
(Engraving the future from today)

Chúng ta là dòng trẻ Việt Nam
(We are the young generation of Vietnam)
Đem tri thức thắp sáng cuộc đời
(Bringing knowledge to light up life)
Cùng yêu thương, cùng chia sẻ hy vọng
(Together in love, together sharing hope)
Ngày đẹp xanh – rực rỡ đất trời
(A beautiful green day – radiant under the sky)

Dòng Trẻ – Sức Sống Mới (La jeunesse – Vie nouvelle)

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As an entropic artist, my creative journey explores the delicate balance between chaos and order, harnessing entropy as both medium and message. My work delves deeply into how systems—visual, conceptual, and sonic—transform as randomness and structure interact. 

Artistic Approach

- I draw inspiration from the concept of entropy, embracing chance and unpredictability as core components of my practice.
- Mirroring the scientific principle of entropy, my art investigates themes of transformation, impermanence, and the cyclical nature of creation and decay.
- This approach allows each project to become an evolving ecosystem, where the unexpected is not only welcomed but actively integrated into the aesthetic and conceptual outcome.

Exploration of Entropic Generative Music

My research and creative output are intrinsically linked to entropic generative music—a field that uses systemic methods to produce ever-changing and unique musical experiences.

Generative music refers to compositions created by systems that follow explicit rules to produce virtually endless variations, made popular by artists such as Brian Eno and Iannis Xenakis.

- Rather than composing note by note, I construct frameworks governed by mathematical rules. These frameworks define the potential behaviors, boundaries, and interactions of musical elements, letting the "music create itself" within those confines.
- Such music is neither fully improvised nor traditionally composed; it is an emergent property that evolves as part of a system shaped by constraints and laws, often mathematical, rather than direct artistic decisions[4].

Mathematical Rules and the Role of Entropy

Mathematical rules are at the heart of my sound-based art:

- I design rulesets inspired by principles such as entropy maximization and  constrained randomness.- Models like the Maximum Entropy Model capture statistical dependencies between musical notes, generating sequences that both mirror established musical styles and offer innovative departures—without copying any input directly.
- These models avoid overfitting by prioritizing pairwise interactions and allow user-defined constraints, steering the generative process within mathematical boundaries rather than artistic intuition or machine learning guesswork:
  - For example, the range of melodic intervals can be defined probabilistically, and entropy maximization ensures each sequence is as diverse as possible within these parameters.
  - The result is music that is mathematically entropic yet always controlled by clear structural rules.

Thematic and Conceptual Links

- My artistic process surrenders to the unknown, leveraging randomness (or entropy) not as a threat but as fertile ground for creativity.
- By building generative systems governed by mathematics, I ensure that every creation reflects both disorder and disciplined order—a dance of chaos and rules mirrored in the interplay between entropy and music.

My work stands at the crossroads of art, mathematics, and sound, continually exploring how mathematical rules and the inherent uncertainty of entropy can inspire not just new aesthetics, but new modes of experience and understanding.

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