YUEN

“With an expanding number of Chinese composers working abroad, scholarship on contemporary Chinese music has correspondingly increased. Many of them talked about balancing and embodying Chinese cultural symbols into Classical tradition from a subjective view. They rarely mention why culture is showcased when it is only sometimes necessary. Therefore, instead of showcasing ethnicity or neutralizing a perceived “Eastern” and “Western” musical conflict, my music will investigate why cultural symbols are employed and their necessity of existence and formulate a technical procedure to allow the audience to picture Eastern imagery without signifiers.”

An excerpt from my research proposal