Wei Yang 

rain contained, rain contains...  

11:40 

"rain contained, rain contains..." is a fixed-media piece exploring the close relationship between everyday objects and nature. Made from sounds of bottles, tubes, and rain, it invites listeners to discover sonic connections and containment between the profound and the ordinary. Bottles and resonant tubes act as vessels of containment, symbolically setting boundaries. Yet, by performing them, their distinctive sounds—clinks, taps, and resonances—uncover hidden textures and melodic fragments that break through the physical. Rain, a fundamental element, unifies the soundscape. While shaping the acoustic environment, the rain also consists of drops, each of which can be contained and has its own unique sonic profile. Through careful transformation and juxtaposition, the piece highlights the shared granular qualities that allow bottle and tube sounds to seamlessly transform into rain, and vice versa, blending the domestic and the natural. This sonic alchemy explores how these elements "find and contain each other," fostering an "ecological listening" that reveals the deep interconnectedness of our everyday objects and the natural world. 

Wei Yang is a composer/sound artist from China. He works with different media, through which he often contemplates the body’s role in sound production, sound in space, as well as the integration of various data from the performance environment (reverberation, light, etc.). Wei composes both instrumental and electronic music, and often incorporates various sensors and physical computing to build performative systems that allow dynamic interaction among different actors within the system. His works have been performed internationally at various events, including the Darmstadt Summer Festival, Salzburg Music Festival, BEAST Festival, NUNC!, ICMC, ISAC Sonosfera, Tomeistertagung, ORF Musikprotokoll, the San Francisco Tape Music Festival, SEAMUS, Espacious Sonores, Festival Atemporánea, Nucleo Música Nova SiMN, Sound Image Festival, and Ars Electronica. 

www.weiyangmusic.com