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Based on Chinese poet Haizi’s poems, I’m Sitting in the Wood is a five-minute electroacoustic poem that explores human beings’ self-isolation and relationship with the external world. The poetry reading quotes from two poems: I’m Sitting in the Wood and Night, of which the visualization is set in the shape of a tree’s growth rings. Both male and female readers record a whole stanza or parts of the poems in English, Mandarin Chinese, and Cantonese, aiming at creating different sound images of the same verse with three different languages and voices. Natural sounds and synthesizer sounds are the accompaniment of poetry: the former is an imagination of the ideal world, and the latter is an abstract representation of the ever-changing inner world of human beings.

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