For E. Asian bowls and cymbals, 8-channel recording, commissioned by Thierry Miroglio, 6’.

Programme note: This is the fourth work in Landy’s Old/New series that commenced with the international commissioned composition for the 2013 Musicacoustica Festival, China/Music 中國/音樂 Old/New 舊/新. In that work samples taken from recordings of a wide variety of forms of Chinese traditional music were captured and recomposed. In this work, created ten years later at the request of the French percussionist, Thierry Miroglio, Chinese and other East Asian bowls and cymbals have been sampled and recomposed in surround sound providing an atmospheric sonic environment in which the live performance involving only those instruments completes the composition. The performance on the website involves a fixed-medium version of the work. The series and this composition’s goal is to demonstrate how music and instruments with rich traditions can represent profound histories while remaining dynamic and thus eternally modern.