Imagined Destinies

Imagined Destinies is a real-time interactive performance composition for Kyma, a book and two microphones. One microphone is an inexpensive contact mic that picks up percussive impulses that control the sonic fabric of the composition; the other mic receives my voice as input and is processed in real-time. The text focuses on the challenges of two countries working towards a deep and lasting friendship. The text used in the composition comes from the Book of Imagined Destinies and is given below:

当我们长途跋涉通过教堂的苦难，生活的折磨 已经使我们勇于对抗，我们共同的人性，我们的热情，我们的爱会消融我们路边的参差岩石，那些路弄伤了我们的脚，却使我们互相拥抱联合起来拥有最深的友谊，也使我们灵魂相依。

English translation:

Though the torments of life have antagonized us as we trudged through our experiential miseries, our common humanity, our passions, our loves, will melt away the jagged rocks along our paths that have bloodied our feet enveloping and uniting us in the deepest of friendships as our souls entwine.