Liza Lim – Ming Qi (Bright Vessel) (2000)
for oboe and percussion
Peter Veale, oboe
Dirk Rothbrust, percussion
Janet Sinica, video/editing
Wolfgang Ellers, recording producer/editing
Bright vessels (Chinese): tomb items (eg. ritual vessels, musical instruments, weapons, figures) buried for the use of the dead. These objects though seeming to be the same as used by the living, are made imperfect in some way and are thus transformed or ‘opened’ into the presence of the spirits.
in memoriam Gérard Grisey
Liza Lim