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Ying Wang: Illuminations. 3 Songs

for piano, voice and electronics

(2022)

Iluminations here stands for the desire to illuminate what is deliberately forgotten or ignored; what is kept »in limbo« in an undefined place; what makes someone a social and political orphan. Illuminations‘ songs take on such orphans. They are based on their own statements and are part protocol, part energetic speech. The songs demonstrate: They are voiced many times through tapes, loudly through megaphones, and shared and documented internationally through smartphones. The three Illuminations songs do not seek out subtle shadow areas of expression, but turn piano keys into chanting trombones and electric guitars. The music for these comes from the tradition of the political protest song and the rock song. Illuminations is also the title of a volume of essays by Walter Benjamin, which served as a latent source of inspiration.
Yin Wang

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In her compositions, Ying Wang (1976 in Shanghai) deals with topics such as environmental pollution, global social ills, political persecution, or man’s relationship to technology. In her work, she constantly seeks new interfaces with other media and arts such as dance, video, digital art, light, visual art and performance.

Ying Wang came from Shanghai in 2003, first to Cologne and finally to Berlin. She has collaborated with numerous orchestras and ensembles in Europe as well as Asia. In 2013, she was awarded the Giga-Hertz Prize Production Award and the Composer Award of the 5th Brandenburg Biennale. In addition to the IEMA scholarship in 2009/10, she received further scholarships from the Experimental Studio of the SWR, the Federal Ministry of Vienna and, at the suggestion of Peter Eötvös, from the Herrenhaus Edenkoben. In 2014 she won the 35th Irino prize for chamber orchestra in Tokyo. In 2015 the Deutschlandfunk invited her as »composer in residence« to the festival »Forum Neuer Musik« in Cologne. In 2017 she received the Heidelberg Künstlerinnenpreis. In 2020, she was a fellow of the German Academy in Rome.

Ying WANG completed her composition studies with York Höller, Rebecca Saunders and Johannes Schöllhorn at the HfMT Cologne. She studied electronic composition with Michael Beil. In 2010, she completed the master’s program in contemporary music at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts on a scholarship from the International Ensemble Modern Academy (IEMA). In 2012 she participated in the Cursus de Composition et d’informatique musicale/Ircam Paris.

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