Hypnopédie chinoise
Feb 26, 2023, 05:00 PM
"If you listen to the monks’ mantra-style prayer chanting for an extended period of time, you become locked into its world, trance-like and utterly absorbed.
"This recomposed piece imagines what happens if you become so absorbed in these wonderful chants that, like a synaesthetic experience, you begin to hear things that aren’t there around the outside, like extra choirs of heavenly voices coming down from the skies and the gentle clinking of wind chimes and fluttering of prayer flags.
"The piece attempts to make this hyperreal experience a reality, extending the monks’ chanting out into something that represents our own aural experience when becoming locked into this recording."
Wenzhou monk chants reimagined by Cities and Memory.
"This recomposed piece imagines what happens if you become so absorbed in these wonderful chants that, like a synaesthetic experience, you begin to hear things that aren’t there around the outside, like extra choirs of heavenly voices coming down from the skies and the gentle clinking of wind chimes and fluttering of prayer flags.
"The piece attempts to make this hyperreal experience a reality, extending the monks’ chanting out into something that represents our own aural experience when becoming locked into this recording."
Wenzhou monk chants reimagined by Cities and Memory.