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ARTIST STATEMENT:
In 2014, I was on a road trip to a border town in my hometown Yunnan, China, where I saw a bridge naturally formed in the hands of two mountains. The writing of this album started last year when I unlocked that part of my memory and cultural identity from the Hani ethnic group. I never thought I’d finish such a folk-centric album in a cosmopolitan place like New York City eight years later. This album includes fragments of my life in a kaleidoscope. Each track represents a unique journey, a traveler’s voyage from sunrise to sunset, past to present, from communal to individual experience, dream to reality, and noise to harmony. Through elements of Chinese folk music, ambient, and spoken word poetry, this travelog navigates through the perspective of every traveler—including myself.
Special thanks to Professor Roy Nathanson, who helped navigate the album-making process and the participation of my classmates from 2022 “Creating A Full-length Text/Recording” Arts Workshop.
BIO:
Haotian Wang (he/him) is a multidisciplinary artist and composer working with sound, field recordings, performance, and poetry. His NYU Gallatin concentration interweaves the relationship between music, sound, and culture. With travel experiences across different continents, Wang uses music to navigate the world’s landscape from both a temporal and spatial perspective. As a Hani ethnic minority from Yunnan, China, he aims to blend contemporary sounds and reframe often-ignored traditions and narratives. Aside from his personal works, Wang is part of Parallel EVE, an electronic duo made up of Wang and Emma Zhang, another NYU Gallatin graduate.
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