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Music of I Ching

by Shinya Lin

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Hexagrams: Great Invigorating 25:41
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Hexagrams: Dispersing 12:54
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Intricateness of wind and water 08:02
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Bagua: The eight natures 04:57
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At random (Interlude) 06:14
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I Ching(Book of Changes) among the oldest of the ancient Chinese classics, it was firstly introduced with graphics by FuXi, ‘Bagua’, which translated as ‘earlier heaven’, consisted with eight elements that symbolized the formation and the changes of the world, later developed to 64 hexagrams; further during Zhou dynasty, King Wen introduced ‘later heaven’, with the texts of each hexagram which became the main I Ching that was then recorded retainable and called “Zhou I”, the other two were “Guicang” and “Lianshan” which were lost eventually (where ‘Han’ dynasty had not recorded those in the history so people thought that were lost before ‘Han’ dynasty). Later on, during the later spring and autumn period, Confucius and his later students recorded series of commentaries known as the “ten wings’ which supported and recorded translations to the I Ching. I Ching had been used to explain, observe the changes of the phenomenon of the highest nature, earth, and humans; divination was only a small part of I Ching, it had been used in enormous fields: philosophy, cosmology, medical, morals, and a lot of others…
In this album, I used the coin tosses and numbers divination to determine the structures, contents, playing techniques, elements, time length, density, intricateness, etc. There are two main parts in this album, big part of it consists of the changes of Bagua, eight elements with eight performers, using coin tosses to divine the changes of the motions of the music, with graphics; the other track was prepared piano, using numbers divination (the numbers were transposed from one small section of quotes from Cage’s book ‘Silence’) to determine the prepared materials, notes, playing techniques, time length, silence, and etc.
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易經為最古老文獻之一，古代有易歷三聖之說，分別從最早伏羲先天八卦，將其重疊為六十四卦，隨後姬昌（周文王）後天八卦，以及在被商紂王囚禁時寫下卦辭與爻辭，再到春秋時代末期的孔子（與後代弟子）撰述的易傳（又稱十翼），我們所知的易經又稱周易，古代還有包括連山易和歸藏易旦皆已失傳。易一名含三意，講求天地人的變化，變易、不易和易簡。易經以義理和象數應用到各個領域觀察天地人的變化，以陰陽符號卜筮卦象，占卜只是易經的一小部分，對古代中國的哲學，天文，醫學，人文等等都遠有非常深的影響。
在這張專輯裡，我使用了金錢卦和數字卦的卜筮方式來占卜整個曲子結構、內容、技巧、元素、時間點、聲響上的密度、以及錯綜復雜的結果等等⋯ 整張專輯分為兩個部分，一大部分為八人（八卦）形成天地人之間的變化，藉由金錢卦的方式占卜出曲子的變化和錯綜復雜的未來變化，以圖形譜、元素、時間結構、演奏技巧等等的方式完成這整個作品。另一部分是加料（預置）鋼琴，以數字掛來決定，數字從John Cage的書”Silence”中的其中一篇擷取出來的句子轉變為運用的數字，預置於鋼琴內的材料、圖形（卦象）、演奏技巧、時間點、沈默等等都是由占卜出來的結果。

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released May 18, 2021

Personnel:
Composer/Piano/Conductor - Shinya Lin
Alto Sax -
Ryan Siegel
Katie Webster
Bass Clarinet - Arjan Singh
Violin - Myra Choo
Cello - Yi-Ming Hsu
Guitar - Iñigo Fúster
Upright Bass - Evan Palmer
Engineering(record/mix) - Joshua Lu
Releasing helps - Reagan Li(LM Prod.)

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Shinya Lin New York, New York

Shinya Lin is a contemporary music performer-composer-improviser, and co-founder of Chaospace, an emerging community for Asian artists curation in New York City. As focusing on piano, prepared piano, and electronics, he draws on strong influences from John Cage and Cecil Taylor, to accept whatever it comes, there is only enjoyment, exploring soundscapes triggered by life and nature. ... more

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