Sound and Vision
Sound and Vision
The Artistry of Margaret Leng Tan and Evans Chan in Sorceress of the New Piano, Makrokosmos I & II, and The Maverick Piano
Written in the light of theories of cinematic sound and musical composition, this essay examines the four documentaries Evans Chan has filmed about the work of the pianist Margaret Leng Tan. Like Evans Chan, Tan is a transnational/transcultural artist and the director turns live performances of music into the same type of cross-cultural composition that characterized his earlier films such as To Liv(e), Journey to Beijing, Adeus Macao, and The Map of Sex and Love. Chan’s keen sensibility for the aesthetics of kinetic and aural art forms as demonstrated in these films served him well in negotiating the tricky dialectic between sound and image in the expository-performative documentary Sorceress of the New Piano and the complementary musical performance films Makrokosmos and The Maverick Piano.
Keywords: Evans Chan, Margaret Leng Tan, John Cage, Avant-Garde Music, George Crumb
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