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Yijing Litany - longer version (1​/​2)

from Yijing Litanies by Scott Roller - speaker anonymous for now

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In 2005, a lovely young Chinese woman orchestral conductor asked to take cello lessons but had no money. I had enjoyed a long and sometimes intense relationship to the ancient Chinese oracle I CHING (German: I Ging), but was always unsure of the pronunciation of the names for the hexagrams.

She paid for her lessons by reading through the list of the 64 signs in front of a good microphone. I collected and used some of the sounds in an installation once – but for the most part i would tinker with the samples sometimes, and always intended to make a recording of various versions and tempi superimposed to produce a musical work, emphasizing the melodious intonations and rich phonology of Chinese.

This version was made 25 April 2023 for this release. By the shorter version, the piece ends when one of the speakers finishes the list. The longer version has one track progressing through the sequence at a much slower tempo while quicker versions repeat up to three times.

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from Yijing Litanies, released April 25, 2023
Sound design, Scott Roller - speaker anonymous for the meantime...

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Music by Scott Roller (USA/D): multi-instrumentalist, improviser, composer, educator and producer based in Stuttgart, Germany.

From composed and improvised chamber music to a wide range of electronic, electroacoustic music from now and the past 40 years.

Current emphasis on sound design, studio-based work which is manifested in film, video & live performances. Artistic Director of Open_Music. ... more

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