MUSICAL WORKS

HUANG Chih Fang / 黃志方

Raga-Maqam Fantasy

Gender: Male

Dest: Concert

Media Specification: mixed music

Performer(s): NAVARATNA Deepti

Duration: 7:00

Perf. Country: TAIWAN

Context: The piece “Raga-Maqam Fantasy” was composed in 2014
It uses traditional Indian Raga as the tone basis, to hybrid
Arabic style Maqam, with electroacoustic transformation
techniques, Indian cyclic rhythms, and the sound samples
from traditional Indian instruments, Iranian Oud, and
Chinese pipa, and applies the real time singing voice
sustain process and with electroacoustic microtones, to
respond with the delicate Indian and Arabic tuning
systems. This piece begins with the ancient oriental
imagery, and then goes through the gradually
transformed sound, with the gorgeous rhythms and
extremely varied noise, to set off “Raga-Maqam Fantasy”
to a unique style, using contemporary electroacoustic
processes.

Instruments: vocal

Editor: ming