In Sea, Shadow and ink • 潮汐之影，水墨之间 , Shui Mo 水墨brings four newly commissioned works by Hong Kong, Taiwan, Uk, and China-Japan-UK composers to Bristol: - Dancing Ink is a propulsive new commission from Cardiff-Hong Kong phenom, 邵丽堂 Kiko Shao. - Changing light, sea and reflection are central to the imagery of (Shui Mo cellist) George Owen’s inspiration from master 吉田博 Hiroshi Yoshida’s tracing of a day over a vast water in changing light. - Beijing-Bristol (Tokyo) composer SU Lia’s work The Ink-Coloured Tide • 墨色之汐;  墨潮 infuses the air with sounds of transformation and changeability. - The inspiration for Taiwan-Germany composer Yuting Chang is the essence of smoke, ‘which I think of as another form of fluid existence.’ - The exquisite sounds of JIA Guoping’s Misty Frost and Faded Ink 寒烟淡墨 draw on the timbral delicacies of Shui Mo’s traditional instruments. 水墨 The Shui Mo ensemble is a group of dynamic young players on the UK scene dedicated to commissioning and performing new repertoires of contemporary music mixing traditional East Asian and Western instruments. Shui Mo looks to create a new repertoire unbounded by eastern or western aesthetics, to provide new palettes for transculturally-minded composers and innovators of the 21st century. ‘Shui Mo’ (水墨 in Mandarin— ‘Sumi-e’ 墨 絵 in Japanese, Sumug (수묵) in Korean, Shu-Mo in Cantonese refers to water and ink painting). Shui Mo’s increasingly wide span of commissions include top composers Jia Guoping (Beijing), Shao Litang (Hong Kong) Xu Zhengtong (Chengdu) and numerous up-and-coming composers. The ensemble enjoys regular collaborations with visual arts presenters and festivals. Shui Mo ensemble is in residence at the University of Bristol. Recordings may be found here from BBC Radio 3’s New Music Show: https://www.shuimo.org.uk/projects Musicians and instruments: Kiku Day キク デイ(shakuhachi), Hyelim Kim 김혜림 (daegeum), PENG Cheng 彭程 (érhú), HE Shuiqingqing 何,水清清 (guzhēng), Jingyu Chew 周荆玉 (shēng), George Owen (‘cello). Visuals by Ting Huang.

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