| The phoenix is a mythical bird that stands for resurrection and rebirth. The two solo-instruments - the shô and the sheng - played at this concert are said to imitate the shape and call of the phoenix. "Being interested in instruments as a projection of musical culture I began to regard instruments as 'micro-architecture'" says curator Gene Coleman, explaining the concept underlying this evening. In "The Path of the Phoenix" I explore the qualities of these different instruments by blurring the differences at one point and bringing them out again elsewhere."
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