Ming Tsao's 'Mirandas Atemwende' reworks Arnold Schoenberg's monodrama 'Erwartung' by quoting expressionist musical gestures to create a 'documentary about expressionism'.
Compositional Technique
Ming Tsao's realization of Karlheinz Stockhausen's 'Plus Minus' uses all 7 pages and two layers of the original score, assigning Layer 1 to a trio and Layer 2 to the remaining instruments.
Composer Biography
Ming Tsao, the composer, holds multiple advanced degrees, including a PhD in Music Composition, an MA in Mathematics, and an MA in Ethnomusicology.
Composer's Artistic Vision
The film work of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet, an artist couple, serves as an important aesthetic point of orientation for Ming Tsao, influencing the composition of spoken lines in his opera.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Ming Tsao's realization of Karlheinz Stockhausen's 'Plus Minus' aims to make the work relevant today by interpreting the 'negative band' material through the composer's own musical language.
Composition History
Ming Tsao's 'Mirandas Atemwende' is the second act of his opera 'Die Geisterinsel', which premiered in 2011 and is based on an 18th-century Singspiel adaptation of Shakespeare's 'The Tempest'.
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