While tackling an ancient tradition such as Chinese Opera you can discover many unexpected aspects of it. For instance you could realize how shallow could be to consider pentatonic music as “simple music”. When you work together with professional Chinese musicians you discover many aspects of rhythmic complexity in those melodies and the extreme indissoluble bond between those rhythmic patterns the physical movements and phrasing of the actors.

We decided to respect that organic world made of text, theatre, motion and music, by creating a different layer, parallel to the Chinese one, but completely integrated. We realized many timbre expansions of the sounds of the Chinese instruments and of the Italian ones with the intention of finding their common elements, to represent a kind of mutual need of each other to find new possibilities for both musical languages.

The electronic parts are only made by processing the sounds coming from the Chinese and Italian instruments.
This way, the use of electronics represents a sort of magnifying lens by which you can listen to those instruments in a different way, a magnifying lens as a bridge between cultures. The electronics is also used to set and move the sounds in a multidimensional sound space, to form the acoustic environment of the narration which evolves along with the drama.
Luigi Ceccarelli e Alessandro Cipriani