The Harmonics Seasons
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Grand Auditorium Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
Wang Li and Wu Wei
The music of the Chinese duo, formed by Wang Li and Wu Wei, challenges the most creative of classification. Besides their instruments – the sheng, an ancient mouth blown free reed instrument; the jaw harp, one of the oldest known musical instruments; and the calabash flute, a Chinese vertical free reed flute, the duo also uses sounds extracted from their own bodies, promoting the practice of oriental instruments from a modern musical perspective. The tone seems to have been set by Wang Li’s reclusion for four years in a French monastery, indulging in an introspection that would find a perfect echo in the music that he would produce from then on.
Wang Li Berimbau / Calabash Flute
Wu Wei Sheng
Free and innovative Chinese music