Concert for Plants：Botanical Oneness

Concert for Plants

Oneness

Botanical Oneness

The fusion music ensemble Oneness welcomes the participants to the third chapter of the Concert for Plants with the healing resonances from the didgeridoo, guzheng, handpan, crystal harp,singing bowls and more. Immersed in the invigorating reverberation of the sounds, this journey through the four elements of matter— earth, water, fire, and air—connects us with our fellow plants, attuning the human senses to that of the plants.

Light installations and mineral dye fabric redefine the rooftop garden into realms of energies, in which dancers join the concert in their choreography with plants. Using element-corresponding minerals for images of mandala, the mineral dye artist Poyi crafted this space of harmony where audience members sing, dance, and meditate with their plants.

Botanical Oneness is a rare moment of a change of perspective, crossing the divides between body/mind, plant/human, cosmic/self with rhythm, vibrations, and oneness.

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Hsu Man-Hsuan

Music producer, guzheng performer and composer, crystal xylophone player.

Now she works as Music director of SpiritLands whish is a sub-brand of Wind Music and Chinese Culture University in China Department of Music as a guzheng lecturer.

Production of the album 「Bonjour, COSMOS」, shortlisted in 2011 the 22nd Golden Melody Award "Best Popular Performance Award".

The album was created by the creation and performance of the guzheng cross-section album 「Splendid Strings on the Move」finalists in 2014, 25th of the year. The "Best Cross-border Music Album Award" and the 14th American Independent Music Music Awards 2014. Participated in the zheng recording album 「Zen. Peaceful」, shortlisted in 2015, which is the 26th opera Golden Melody Award "best religious music album award".

She has live-performed in several music festivals in Taiwan, Paris, Vienna, South Korea, and Yangzhou, China in recent years. She also establishes a crossover musical band ”Kite Flying Band” and a nature sound healing band “Oneness”.

She is regularly invited as a judge in National Music Competitions and a Program review committee in National Theater & Concert Hall.

 

 

Chen Pei-Yuan 

Chen is a handpan player, sound healer, and multi-disciplinary sound artist. His creation trajectory spans the fields of sacred music, sound healing, sound art, experimental music, and so on, across different forms between improvisation, performance, arranging, and acoustic composition.

His works aim to explore the initial state of human consciousness and the universe, a flow of primitive natural energy in non-material form. He would be like a medium to translate this pure energy of consciousness into the physical world we live in through music and sound. In his past creation, he has collected and learned the instrument and tradition of the sacred music, shamanic, and ritual music of interdisciplinary human cultures on earth. He internalized these sacred sounds as an inseparable part of his own body and consciousness, and explored and created ritual music that belongs to contemporary art and culture - a form of sound art that connects the cosmos with the heavens and the earth and transforms and heals the human consciousness.