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). .

	Audio 00 _Twisting Ways_ Track 1 Twisting Ways – The Hand.wav - Unspecified Download (314MB)
	Audio 00 _Twisting Ways_ Track 2 Twisting Ways – Dialogue.wav - Unspecified Download (93MB)
	Audio 00 _Twisting Ways_ Track 3 Twisting Ways – Opening Glimmers.wav - Unspecified Download (86MB)
	Audio 00 _Twisting Ways_ Track 4 Twisting Ways – Hope Shadow.wav - Unspecified Download (379MB)
	Audio 00 _Twisting Ways_ Track 5 Lydian Sky.wav - Unspecified Download (261MB)
	Audio 00 _Twisting Ways_ Track 6 Fleur Variation.wav - Unspecified Download (231MB)
	Text 01 Tsang's musical poetry for _Twisting Ways_ – a guide through the materials by Lee Tsang (Dec 2020, updated 26.01.2021).pdf - Unspecified Download (811kB) | Preview
	Text A1 ‘New ballad’ piano sketch by David Braid (2018).pdf - Unspecified Download (52kB) | Preview
	Text A2 'The Hand' (text) by Lee Tsang (2018, rev. 2019).pdf - Unspecified Download (612kB) | Preview
	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 B1 Piano sketch response to ‘The Hand’ by Philippe Côté (2019).pdf - Unspecified Download (37kB) | Preview
	Text B2 'Hope Shadow' (text) by Lee Tsang (2019).pdf - Unspecified Download (598kB) | 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 B3-2 Performance Notes for Philippe Côté by Lee Tsang (2019).pdf - Unspecified Download (617kB) | Preview
	Text C1 _Alliance_ [_Twisting Ways_] score by David Braid, Philippe Côté, Lee Tsang (2019).pdf - Unspecified Download (1MB) | 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
	Text C2-3 Event publicity of Alliance premiere with Karly Epp (voice) 17.11.2019.pdf - Unspecified Download (715kB) | 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 D1 Track titles and rationale by Lee Tsang (November 2020).pdf - Unspecified Download (660kB) | Preview
	Audio D2 _Twisting Ways_ [poet's cut] Track 1 Oscar's Rose.wav - Unspecified Download (135MB)
	Audio D3 _Twisting Ways_ [poet's cut] Track 2 Flight.wav - Unspecified Download (177MB)
	Audio D4 _Twisting Ways_ [poet's cut] Track 3 Dialogues.wav - Unspecified Download (92MB)
	Audio D5 _Twisting Ways_ [poet's cut] Track 4 Confucian Drift.wav - Unspecified Download (86MB)
	Audio D6 _Twisting Ways_ [poet's cut] Track 5 Light Giver.wav - Unspecified Download (94MB)
	Audio D7 _Twisting Ways_ [poet's cut] Track 6 Jungian Twists.wav - Unspecified Download (162MB)
	Audio D8 _Twisting Ways_ [poet's cut] Track 7 Hope's Shadow.wav - Unspecified Download (123MB)
	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 E2 Lydian Sky (text) by Lee Tsang (2020).pdf - Unspecified Download (610kB) | Preview
	Text E3-1 _Lydian Sky_ leadsheet (Karly's Key) by Braid and Tsang (2020).pdf - Unspecified Download (111kB) | Preview
	Text E3-2 _Lydian Sky_ score and parts by Braid, ed. Tsang (2020).pdf - Unspecified Download (616kB) | Preview
	Audio E4 _Twisting Ways_ [poet's cut] album Track 8 _ Lydian Sky_.wav - Unspecified Download (261MB)
	Audio E5 _Twisting Ways_ [poet's cut] album Track 9 _Fleur variation_.wav - Unspecified Download (231MB)
	Text E6 Songs of Light and Air by Lee Tsang (2017-2020).pdf - Unspecified Download (712kB) | Preview

Abstract

Twisting Ways explores relationships between words and music in new ways, including how these relationships are redefined by different musicians in fluid compositional and performance processes. Tsang’s involvement throughout the album’s production enabled his poetry’s technical, musical and narrative characteristics to grow within a complex system. 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 words and music. In Twisting Ways, Tsang collaborated with Braid to write ‘The Hand’ and ‘Lydian Sky’, and with Côté to write ‘Hope Shadow’. His contribution to ‘The Hand’ and ‘Hope Shadow’ set out ‘twisting’ paths and reflexivity concepts that aligned classical-jazz improvisation processes with ideas about direction and mutual interdependence from Christianity, Confucianism, and psychoanalysis. His concepts and compositional processes were developed further in Braid’s and Côté’s jazz orchestra settings of all three texts on the album. Tsang’s creation of texts on the basis of resonance potential is his key compositional method in these works, but when ideas are exchanged in a crossover jazz-classical context a range of interpretations and responses are possible. Different singers produced idiosyncratic timbral patterns that required stitching into the musical fabric and collective redevelopment of surrounding material. Vocalists performing the works shifted from British classical towards North American jazz and popular, yet retained priority resonances and introduced ornamental inflections. Moreover, individual performer attributes stimulated re-evaluations of vocal line configurations in which Tsang prioritised the characteristics of timbral registration and narrative.

Item Type:	Other
Additional Information:	Available from University of Liverpool
Depositing User:	Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited:	30 Dec 2020 19:09
Last Modified:	18 Jan 2023 23:05
Related URLs:	Publisher
URI:	https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3110815

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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)
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