Tsang’s musical poetry (2018-2020) for _Twisting Ways_ (Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra, 2020)

Tsang, Lee ORCID: 0000-0002-3122-9639 (2020) Tsang’s musical poetry (2018-2020) for _Twisting Ways_ (Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra, 2020). .

	Video A3 Premiere performance of ‘The Hand’, Lee Tsang (baritone), David Braid (piano), 13.03.2019, Open Circuit, VGM, University of Liverpool.mp4 - Unspecified Download (77MB)
	Text A4 ‘The Hand’ Casalmaggiore trio version, cello part by David Braid and Lee Tsang, 25.07.2019.pdf - Unspecified Download (56kB) | Preview
	Text A1 ‘New ballad’ piano sketch by David Braid (2018).pdf - Unspecified Download (52kB) | Preview
	Text E1-1 Piano, _Lydian Sky_ (2003).pdf - Unspecified Download (552kB) | Preview
	Text E1-2 Flugel Horn, _Lydian Sky_ (2003).pdf - Unspecified Download (584kB) | Preview
	Text E1-3 Tenor Sax, _Lydian Sky_ (2003).pdf - Unspecified Download (795kB) | Preview
	Audio E1-4 _Lydian Sky_ from the album _Zhen--David Braid Sextet Live Vol. II_ (2005).mp3 - Unspecified Download (8MB)
	Text E1-5 Lydian Sky leadsheet (2020) [post-consultation].pdf - Unspecified Download (89kB) | Preview
	Text A2 'The Hand' (text) by Lee Tsang (2018, rev. 2019).pdf - Unspecified Download (612kB) | Preview
	Text B2 'Hope Shadow' (text) by Lee Tsang (2019).pdf - Unspecified Download (598kB) | Preview
	Text E3-2 _Lydian Sky_ score and parts by Braid, ed. Tsang (2020).pdf - Unspecified Download (616kB) | Preview
	Text E3-1 _Lydian Sky_ leadsheet (Karly's Key) by Braid and Tsang (2020).pdf - Unspecified Download (111kB) | Preview
	Text E2 Lydian Sky (text) by Lee Tsang (2020).pdf - Unspecified Download (610kB) | Preview
	Audio F1 _Twisting Ways_ Track 1 Twisting Ways – The Hand.mp3 - Unspecified Download (23MB)
	Audio F2 _Twisting Ways_ Track 2 Twisting Ways – Dialogue.mp3 - Unspecified Download (7MB)
	Audio F3 _Twisting Ways_ Track 3 Twisting Ways – Opening Glimmers.mp3 - Unspecified Download (6MB)
	Audio F4 _Twisting Ways_ Track 4 Twisting Ways – Hope Shadow.mp3 - Unspecified Download (28MB)
	Audio F5 _Twisting Ways_ Track 5 – Lydian Sky.mp3 - Unspecified Download (19MB)
	Text C2-3 Event publicity of Alliance premiere with Karly Epp (voice) 17.11.2019.pdf - Unspecified Download (715kB) | Preview
	Text C2-1 Programme notes for _Alliance_ (2019) by Lee Tsang.pdf - Unspecified Download (621kB) | Preview
	Text C2-2 WJO programme 17.11.2019.pdf - Unspecified Download (1MB) | Preview
	Audio C3 Spoken recitation of 'The Hand' by Lee Tsang 04.06.2020.m4a - Unspecified Download (1MB)
	Video C4 _Alliance_ Interview, Philippe Côté, David Braid, Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra [extract discussing Lee Tsang; performance featuring voice of Jessica Strong], 25.10.2020.mp4 - Unspecified Download (38MB)
	Text B3-2 Performance Notes for Philippe Côté by Lee Tsang (2019).pdf - Unspecified Download (617kB) | Preview
	Text D1 Track titles and rationale by Lee Tsang (November 2020).pdf - Unspecified Download (660kB) | Preview
	Text C1 _Alliance_ [_Twisting Ways_] score by David Braid, Philippe Côté, Lee Tsang (2019).pdf - Unspecified Download (1MB) | Preview
	Text B3-1 ‘Hope Shadow’ sketch word setting (to Côté’s original melodic contours) by Lee Tsang (2019).pdf - Unspecified Download (151kB) | Preview
	Text B1 Piano sketch response to ‘The Hand’ by Philippe Côté (2019).pdf - Unspecified Download (37kB) | Preview
	Text E6 Songs of Light and Air by Lee Tsang (2017-2020).pdf - Unspecified Download (712kB) | Preview
	Audio D2 _Twisting Ways_ [poet's cut] Track 1 Oscar's Rose.wav - Unspecified Download (135MB)
	Audio D8 _Twisting Ways_ [poet's cut] Track 7 Hope's Shadow.wav - Unspecified Download (123MB)
	Audio D7 _Twisting Ways_ [poet's cut] Track 6 Jungian Twists.wav - Unspecified Download (162MB)
	Audio D6 _Twisting Ways_ [poet's cut] Track 5 Light Giver.wav - Unspecified Download (94MB)
	Audio D5 _Twisting Ways_ [poet's cut] Track 4 Confucian Drift.wav - Unspecified Download (86MB)
	Audio D4 _Twisting Ways_ [poet's cut] Track 3 Dialogues.wav - Unspecified Download (92MB)
	Audio D3 _Twisting Ways_ [poet's cut] Track 2 Flight.wav - Unspecified Download (177MB)
	Text 01 Tsang's musical poetry for _Twisting Ways_ -- a guide through the materials by Lee Tsang.pdf - Unspecified Download (809kB) | Preview
	Audio E5 _Twisting Ways_ [poet's cut] album Track 9 _Fleur variation_.wav - Unspecified Download (231MB)
	Audio E4 _Twisting Ways_ [poet's cut] album Track 8 _ Lydian Sky_.wav - Unspecified Download (261MB)
	Audio F6 _Twisting Ways_ Track 6 – Fleur variation.wav - Unspecified Download (231MB)

Abstract

Tsang produces musical poetry by improvising vowels to match melodic-harmonic sonorities, taking into account the timbral salience potential and the timbral rhythms of composer source materials, as well as physiological matters relating to vocal resonance. He then improvises images, metaphors and narratives, while continuously evaluating sonority-matching decisions and the consistencies, differences and conflicts that arise between media. Tsang’s work ‘The Hand’ instigated responses from a) Braid, who improvised accompaniment to Tsang’s vocal, and b) Côté, who wrote a piano sketch for which Tsang in turn wrote ‘Hope Shadow’. Taken together, Tsang’s texts outline ‘twisting’ path and reflexivity concepts where classical-jazz improvisation processes align with ideas about direction and mutual interdependence from Western Christian religion, Confucian philosophy, and psychoanalysis. A jazz orchestra treatment bears out these concepts as process. Creating text on the basis of resonance potential offers a ‘blueprint’ for stimulating response, but a jazz-classical context where creative batons are passed from one to another extends the range of possible divergences in execution. Different singers produce idiosyncratic timbral patterns that must be effectively stitched into the musical fabric, with surrounding fabric reassessed. The performances see shifts in vocal practices from British classical to North American popular; priority resonances are retained and inflections are ornamental to the resonance blueprint; collective re-evaluation of vocal line break points is stimulated by individual performer attributes leading to prioritising the characteristics of timbral registration and narrative above theoretical phonology and original sketch contours. Whereas traditionally the issue of how words and music relate may appear relatively fixed, in fluid collaborative crossover contexts the nature of the relationship shifts as a result of apparently innocuous impromptu creative decisions. These require interventions in order to mitigate the effects of distorting methodological craft.

Item Type:	Other
Depositing User:	Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited:	18 Dec 2020 16:27
Last Modified:	18 Jan 2023 23:20
URI:	https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3108451

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• Tsang’s musical poetry (2018-2020) for 'Twisting Ways' from the WJO album _Twisting Ways_ (2020). (deposited 12 Nov 2020 13:09)
  • Tsang’s musical poetry (2018-2020) for _Twisting Ways_ (Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra, 2020). (deposited 18 Dec 2020 16:27) [Currently Displayed]
    • Tsang’s musical poetry (2018-2020) for 'Twisting Ways' (Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra, 2020). (deposited 30 Dec 2020 19:09)