“…the spread of an ink drop…” is inspired by a Tang dynasty poet Meng Haoran’s poem The Song of Returning to Lumen Mountain at Night. The poem describes the scene where people, upon the tolling of a temple bell signaling the end of a working day, rush back to home and Meng himself returns to Lumen Mountain, a remote area accompanied only by trees, mist and moonlight.
The music should resemble the flowing of the ink in shan-shui (mountain-water) paintings.
*A commission by Newphonia
Hong-Da Chin 