LOST IN THE MIDTOWN

New music composed by pianist Zhen Chen and live performed with Pipa artist Lin Ma and cellist Yiduo Liu at Greene Space of WNYC/WQXR.
LOST IN THE MIDTOWN uses the tension of tango music to depict the new immigrant’s fight against the social institution. The solemn and monotonous notes on the cello symbolize a mechanic and cold institution. The whimsical melody on the pipa’s part describes the new immigrant in panic after repetitive trial and error to work with the social institution and political bureaucracy in the United States. The intertwined melodies escalate into pipa’s strumming that imitates the bangs on the institution’s door. The music contracts into a vertigo-alike quiet section and then spreads out into a rapid glissando. The sharp contrast articulates a state of desperation and helplessness.

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