LittleDragonSoup

2019
Herbal Medicine, Score, Experimental Music
Original version
Dimensions variable
Commissioned by Ting Shuo Hear Say
Courtesy of the artist

小青龍淹沒在洶湧的海浪中，以緩解水災。小青龍是桂枝、麻黃、牡丹根、姜幹、細辛、五味子、戊類和一些蜜炸的甘草。小青龍植物配方，同時具有神話般的，藥用的和揭示的宇宙學秩序，在這個世界上，表現力得分生動，模棱兩可但有形，不斷變化，並通過計算植物力，動態設計來指導恢復疏遠的道德，消除肺部的情感氾濫，消除在死水中發芽的悲傷，保持靈巧，暢通和生命的流動性。

The dragon submerges into turbulent waves to ease troubled waters. The dragon as cinnamon twigs, as ephedra, as peony root, as dried ginger, as asarum, schizandra, penillia and a dash of honey-fried licorice. An aromatic recipe that is at the same time mythological, medicinal, and revealing of a cosmological order, and in this world, a performative score is vivid, ambiguous yet tangible, constantly changing, guided by a calculation of botanical powers, a dynamic design to restore estranged morality, to qualm an emotional flooding in the lungs, to shudder the sorrow that sprouts in stagnated waters, to keep dexterity and flow and mobility of life. A view of the body, in which forms are implicitly inferred to by relationships, resonates with a specific kind of expanded listening first introduced to me by a Chinese medicine shop owner, who offers poetry as his preferred form of remedy after intuited reading of one’s emotional and physical body. A key term here is wen (聞), a rather open sensory concept that is fundamental in traditional clinical practices—to smell, to hear, to intuit, to catch wind of. Little dragon soup is an exercise of abstract scoring, sound, and kinetics that speak to the body as a micro-universe.