ZHUOSHENG JIN 金卓晟
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"...and I placed my arm around your shoulder", string quartet no. 1 (2016-17) 
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Instrumentation -
violin I, violin II, viola, cello 

Duration - ca. 15'30''

Performance history - 
January 26, 2017, Boston, US, JACK Quartet
June 9, 2017, Buffalo, US, Mivos Quartet

Programme Notes - 
The sonic structure of the piece is made through various and consistent types of Alternation. For me, it acts as a kind of direction. By alternating different musical shapes, the music starts to drive itself. The term “direction” here doesn’t mean an end, but acts as a Sisyphean metaphor that later shapes come from the formers and then become the formers, and so on…

The title of the piece derives from the last two lines of the poem "Red Sail" by Chinese poet Bei Dao(北岛). In the poem, the poet stands on the seaside. Wild water symbolises the unknown future of his country and his people, as he, among his contemporaries, belongs to the first generation of poets after the Cultural Revolution. He faces the sunset and watches the water. The sunshine warms his heart and reddens the sail. In the end, he starts off to the sea.

Recording by Mivos Quartet.


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  • schedule 日程
  • bio 简历
  • music 音乐
    • Orchestra and Large Ensemble >
      • At the End of Snow Line (2017-18)
    • Chamber >
      • A Piece of Watermelon (2018-19)
      • ...and I placed my arm around your shoulder, string quartet no. 1 (2016-17)
      • Looks like Jackfruit (2022)
      • dust not dust (2020)
      • Immobilised Motions, string quartet no. 2 (2017-18)
      • Neon (2022)
      • June Story (2019)
      • a trivial elegy for an unnamed friend (2019)
      • Into the Fall (October Story) (2018)
      • April Story (2016)
      • Voyage (2019/20)
    • Solo >
      • Three Images Inspired from Shuntarō Tanikawa (2019-20)
      • (in)somnia (2015)
      • Pale Flower IV & VIb (2021)
      • Pale Flower III (2019)
      • as in a m[e]rror (2017)
    • Teenager Composition (2006-11)
  • words 文字
    • 散文和杂文 >
      • 五味集
      • 嘴炮和呻吟——文十九篇
      • 圣法米随笔集·利马集
      • 新宿集
      • 磐石集·集外集
      • 说梦集·慈云集
      • 二十二篇
      • 杂碎集
    • 诗作 >
      • 2020 - 22
      • 2017 - 19
      • 2014 - 16
      • 2013 and before
    • 小说和戏剧 >
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