Day 198,is a part performance part art film on Du Yun & OK MISS, meditative, punk, a muse on separated and connected. Directed by Du Yun & Nicholas Houfek Read More
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Keynote: “The Multiplicities of Our Bloodlines” The year was/is 2020, the year of the existential crisis. Many of us have been brewing doubts about who we are and where we belong. Culture becomes a privilege, a mirror of values, a nexus of self and socio-economic realization. In this time of rampant nationalism and “cancel culture,” current social structures highlight the divides between us all; a global pandemic, to many of us, only... Read More
Fanfare for a harpist in any public space Read More
A short animation film on excerpt of A Cockroach's Tarantella. Film by Julian Crouch. A collaboration between film and musical work. Read More
Opera: The Arrivals wash up on the shore. They make contact with another civilization they call “the Hosts.” And from there, the story splinters, following diverging perspectives. Starting as a procession through the LA State Historic Park, Sweet Land becomes an opera that erases itself. Read More
Featuring poets Abdullah Al Hedeyah, Shaikha Al Mutairi and Hamsa Younis, with Mohamed Lashkuri Ibrahim on shehnai. Film by Art 21. Read More
Du Yun and Khaled Jarrar on "Where We Lost Our Shadows" Read More
Live performance of the Grammy Award-nominated work from Du Yun Composer Portrait Concert at the Miller Theatre. Read More
Tom Service meets the boundary-defying Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Du Yun, as she prepares to curate a radical upgrade of ancient Chinese and Indonesian sound-worlds in 'The New Java and Shanghai', part of Southbank's new music festival Soundstate. Read More
for String Quartet. Inspired by Alice in Wonderland Syndrome, "i am my own achilles heel" explores Du Yun's fascination with a fantastical world that lies in a reality, a liminal state that lies at the edge of half-fantastical, half-hallucination. Read More
An excerpt from "How are you doing, the past that has never left", featuring the Chinese regional opera, a Diaoqiang opera singing. Part of the ongoing Future Traditions project. Read More
Trailer for Angel's Bone, winner of 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Music. music by DU YUN | libretto by ROYCE VAVREK. Read More
Chamber orchestra with 2 hyper-slow films: Portraits in the Dramatic Time by David Michalek Read More
Presenting a short operatic film, following the release of 2017 Pulitzer Prize-winning work Angel’s Bone by Du Yun and librettist Royce Vavrek. Read More
for string quartet and a narrator. A prequel of "Life-before" story to the opera "Zolle." Read More
for Bass Flute and electronics. "You miss the garden, because you want a small fig from a random tree..." Read More
for 'Cello Solo. Overture to Bach Suite No.2 Read More
Du Yun talks to New Music Box about why she feels compelled to constantly take risks in her music. Read More
Fallen Warriors, the Cihuacoatl's Eye for flute, clarinet, contrabassoon, trumpet, trombone, string quintet, and electronics. Duration: 14' Read More
Ross Karre and Du Yun play Binaural Distancing. Left Ear: Du Yun; Right Ear: Ross Karre Read More
For harp solo. "I open my gaze and saw nothing. I close my eyes and sit still." Read More
for 'Cello Solo. Overture to Bach Suite No.2 Read More
Tattooed in Snow explores the temporary and fragile crystallization in nature and in space. The four players of the quartet form the four pillars of a musical space, and as a chant begins to move among theme, it layers, repeats and takes shape in the manner of a sculpture in sand or snow. Read More
Cleopatra Aria, I must survive Read More
for Contrabass soloist, with vocalist and drum. A meditation on bereavement. Read More
Composition for Shahzia Sikander, "The Last Post" (2010) Read More
for Alice Guy-Blache’s retrospective Read More
for alto flute and electronics. Imagine, one afternoon you go into a graveyard, any graveyard in total silence and stillness, you start to run, run so fast that your feet almost lifted... Read More
For Five Trumpets, Electronics and optional e. guitar/ e.bass Read More
Live from National Sawdust. 2017. Upcoming in the new album, Iron ❤️. Read More
Live performance at the Kitchen, Du Yun+ ACME Read More