LIAO, Lin-Ni
LIAO, Lin-Ni
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Taiwanese composer, Lin-Ni Liao, PhD in musicology and associated researcher at the Institut de Recherche en Musicologie (Sorbonne Université, CNRS), is the artistic director of TPMC (Toute Pour la Musique Contemporaine) in Paris. She questions interculturality in all fields of her work, composition, artistic production, and academic research, the latter of which focuses on musical analysis, artistic identity, cultural heritage, and the role of women in contemporary music from the Far East. She has published 15 articles and 3 books including: “Pensée et langage musical d'Edith Lejet”, “Héritages culturels et pensée modern - Les compositeurs Taiwanais de musique contemporaine formés à l’étranger” and “Fusion du temps : passé-présent, Extrême Orient - Extrême Occident” (co-edited: Marc Battier). In the composition, she studied with Yoshihisa Taira, Allain Gaussin, Philippe Leroux and Gilles Racot. Her musical works are focus on the musical and philosophical fusion between time and space, between the physical and musical gesture and have been performed by the ensembles including, Taipei Music Forum Percussion, Cairn, Proxima Centauri, Multilatérale, L'instant donné, Arsenal, Meitar, Blauer Reiter, Quatuor de Saxophone Osmose and Contemporary Chamber Orchestra Taipei at la Cité de la Musique, Pompidou Centre, Musée du Quai Branly and Extension, Why Note, ACL, MANCA festivals...
Scores © Maison ONA https://www.maison-ona.com/catalog-composer-Liao
Books © Delatour France http://www.editions-delatour.com/fr/713_liao-lin-ni
How prudent that we are… I
2019
Time of Trees II
2017
Time of Trees I
2016
Le train de la vie 浮生 V - Alison
2014
Poussière dans le vent
2013| Title | Instrumentation | Year | Duration | NCAF-funded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| And if we put our dreams behind us…? | Bass flute, bass clarinet, viola, cello and piano | 2020 | 2' | |
| Do - our - Nature's soft for harp and large tam tam | harp and tam tam | 2020 | 8' | |
| How prudent that we are… II | Flute, oboe and Tam-Tam | 2019 | 9' | |
| Look back on time with kindly eyes | Bass Fl./ Bass Cl./ Vn./ Vla./ Vlc./P. | 2017 | 9' | |
| one bird, one tree… | Erhu, accordion and piano | 2017 | 10' | |
| Etude de temps | Bass Fl./ Vn./ Vlc./ P., soprano & female non-bel canto voice | 2015 | 5' | |
| CCC | Electric Guitar/Accordion/ Percussions (6 tam tams, percussions accessories) | 2013 | 11' | |
| De Animatae | Alto-Soprano Recorder/ Piano/ Toy Piano | 2013 | 8' | |
| Poussière dans le vent | Fl./ Vn./ Vlc./ P. | 2013 | 7'30" | |
| Non-Lieu | 2 Fl./ Vla./ Vlc./ Piano for 2 hands/ Piano for 4 hands | 2009 | 8' | |
| Imamusi | Vla./ Gtr/ B.Sax/ P. | 2008 | 7' | |
| Deux percussionniste et amplification | 2 Percussionists, amplification | 2007 | 10'15" | |
| String Quartet n° 2 | 2 Vn./ Vla./ Vlc. | 2007 | 5'30" | |
| Jian-Shui 澗 水 | Duo Pianos | 2003 | 7'10" | |
| Du-Che 讀 徹 | Soprano and small orchestra (2.1.1.1./ 1.1.1./ 2 groupes de percussions, Hp., Po./ 4.4.3.2.2) | 2003 | 12'30" | |
| La | Soprano/ Fl./ Cl. in Bb/ Vn./ Vlc./ P. | 2002 | 8'10" |
| Title | Instrumentation | Year | Duration | NCAF-funded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The wind could wait without the gate... | Lever harp solo | 2021 | 4' | |
| TTy (a,b,c,d,e) | Grand Tam Tam | 2011 | 7' | |
| p. 53 (I,II,III,IV,V) | Guitar | 2008 | 8'30" | |
| 3 rue de Paradis 天堂街三號 | Saxophones Quartet, percussions | 2006 | 12' | |
| Tu te souviens ? On s'est rencontré juste à côté de cet arbre... il y a 500 ans... | Harpsichord | 2005 | 9' | |
| Le bruisement du Stratos-Nimbus | Alto Saxophone | 2004 | 7'20" | |
| Telle l'eau 若水 | Marimba | 2002 | 8'30" |
| Title | Instrumentation | Year | Duration | NCAF-funded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Le train de la vie 浮生 V - Alison | Electric guitar + Electronics | 2014 | 8'30" | |
| Le train de la vie 浮生 III - WE | Erhu + Electroacoustic | 2012 | 12' | |
| Le train de la vie 浮生 IV - TT | Electroacoustic | 2012 | 10'30" | |
| Le train de la vie 浮生 I - LR | Electroacoustic | 2010 | 8'30" | |
| Le train de la vie 浮生 II - Doris | Guitar + Electroacoustic | 2010 | 10' |
| Title | Instrumentation | Year | Duration | NCAF-funded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| How prudent that we are… I | 1) Version I for Flute, Tam-Tam, gestures, lighting and shadows / 2) Version II for Flute, Tam-Tam, gestures and video | 2019 | 8'30" | |
| Time of Trees II | Piano for gestures of two pianists, shadows and light & sound installations | 2017 | 15' | |
| Time of Trees I | Piano 4 hands for choreographical gesture of fingers | 2016 | 4' | |
| Vent Debout, Citoyen! 民意如風起 | Prepared piano and storyteller | 2013 | 75' | |
| Maui tikitiki a Taranga 莫伊傳說 | Pre-Recording/ Percussions/ Keyboard/ Puppet Theater | 2011 | 50' | |
| Ratatouille, Tignasse et CO. | Pre-Recording | 2006 | 45' |
* link to " NCAF online Archive of Grant Fruitages "website (in Chinese)
| Title | Instrumentation | Year | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| How prudent that we are… I | 1) Version I for Flute, Tam-Tam, gestures, lighting and shadows / 2) Version II for Flute, Tam-Tam, gestures and video | 2019 | 8'30" |
Article - Electronic Music in East Asia
Taylor & Francis Group 2018
« Electronic Music in East Asia », co-author with Marc Battier, The Routledge Research Companion to Electronic Music: Reaching out with Technology, edited by Simon Emmerson, London, Taylor & Francis Group, May 2018, p. 49-76
Article - Taiwanese Women Composers and Mixed-Music With Their Cultural Heritage
Taylor & Francis Group 2018
« Taiwanese Women Composers and Mixed-Music With Their Cultural Heritage », Contemporary Music Review Vol. 37, N° 1-2, February-April 2018: Electroacoustic Music in East Asia, edited by Marc Battier and Kenneth FieldsLondon, Taylor & Francis Group, p. 161-173.
Article - L'Espace et le temps : une gestuelle traditionnelle de l'Extrême-Orient transcrite dans la contemporanéité de l'Extrême-Occident » (Space and Time : Traditional Gesture of the Far East Transcribed in the Contemporaneity of the West)
Ed. Ina-GRM 2017
« L'Espace et le temps : une gestuelle traditionnelle de l'Extrême-Orient transcrite dans la contemporanéité de l'Extrême-Occident » (Space and Time : Traditional Gesture of the Far East Transcribed in the Contemporaneity of the West), new publication specializing in Mixed Music, under the direction of Marc Battier, Ed. Ina-GRM, January 2017.
Article - Le chant des muses - la dernière création de Xu Yi
Ed. Beauchesne 2016
« Le chant des muses - la dernière création de Xu Yi », L’éducation musicale, n° 105, July 2016.
Article - INTERCULTURALITY: Intellectual organization of the West and spiritual listening of the Far East in the mixed music of Wang Miao-Wen
Ed. Delatour 2016
« INTERCULTURALITY: Intellectual organization of the West and spiritual listening of the Far East in the mixed music of Wang Miao-Wen », Listening to eletroacoustic music through analysis, Congres euroMAC 2014, Arts Faculty of the KU Leuven (Belgique), 17-21 September 2014. Articles published, Paris, Ed. Delatour, 2016, p. 125-137.
Book - Héritages culturels et pensée moderne. Les compositeurs Taiwanais de musique contemporaine (Cultural Heritage and Modern Thought : Contemporary Taiwanese Composers )
Ed. Delatour 2015
Héritages culturels et pensée moderne. Les compositeurs Taiwanais de musique contemporaine (Cultural Heritage and Modern Thought : Contemporary Taiwanese Composers), thesis under the direction of Marc Battier, honorable mention with special congratulations of the jury (jury : Pierre-Albert Castanet, Hsu Jui- kun, Alain Weber), Université de Paris-Sorbonne, 18 November 2011. Published by Editions Delatour, February 2015, 384 p.
Article - Temps de l’Extrême-Occident et âme de l’Extrême-Orient dans la musique contemporaine au regard du I Ching
Ed. L'Harmattan 2015
« Temps de l’Extrême-Occident et âme de l’Extrême-Orient dans la musique contemporaine au regard du I Ching », Colloque LANGARTS (Langages artistiques Asie-Occident) et Réseau Asie (CNRS/FMSH) Notions esthétiques : la perception sensible organisée, Paris, 25-27 June 2014. Articles published, Ed. L'Harmattan, 2015, p. 371-382.
Editor - Fusion du temps : Passé-Présent, Extrême Orient-Extrême Occident (Fusion of Time: Past-Present, East- West)
Ed. Delatour 2014
Fusion du temps : Passé-Présent, Extrême Orient-Extrême Occident (Fusion of Time: Past-Present, East- West), co-editor with Marc Batttier, conference text with articles by Betsy Jolas, Allain Gaussin, Jacques Pimpaneau, François Picard, Marc Battier, Wang Xinxin, Chen Chih-Cheng et Tian Leilei, Paris, Ed. Delatour, March 2014, 158 p.
Article - Perception culturel et philosophique au regard de l'analyse musicale
Ed. Delatour 2014
Preface and « Perception culturel et philosophique au regard de l'analyse musicale » (Cultural and Philosophical Perception in Musical Analysis), Fusion du temps : passé-présent, Extrême Orient - Extrême Occident (Fusion of Time : Past-Present, East-West), conference organized by Université de Paris-Sorbonne (OMF-MINT) in partnership with the Centre culturel de Taiwan à Paris, 14 September 2012. Published March 2014, Paris, Ed. Delatour, p. 13-17, p. 95-101. * http://www.editions-delatour.com/fr/musicologie-analyses/2282-fusion-du-temps-9782752102164.html
Article -Six entries for the Taiwan section, Dictionnaire des créatrices du monde (Dictionary of Women Creators of the World)
Ed. des femmes2013
Six entries for the Taiwan section, Dictionnaire des créatrices du monde (Dictionary of Women Creators of the World) 3 volumes, Paris, Editions des femmes, October 2013.
Article -Tien Nee de Chao Ching-Wen : émergence du hasard, fruit d'une sonorité spirituelle (“Tien Nee by Chao Ching-Wen: Emergence of Chance, Fruit of Spiritual Sound”)
Ed. L’Harmattan 2011
« Tien Nee de Chao Ching-Wen : émergence du hasard, fruit d'une sonorité spirituelle » (”Tien Nee by Chao Ching-Wen: Emergence of Chance, Fruit of Spiritual Sound”), Le surgissement créateur : jeu, hasard ou inconscient (Creator Emergence: Play, Chance, or Unconscious) Conference, Réseau Asie (CNRS/FMSH), Paris, 13 April 2011. Article published in the collection « L'univers esthétique » (« The Esthetic Univers »), Paris, L’Harmattan, November 2011, p. 175-196.
Book - Pensée et langage musical d'Edith Lejet
Ed. Université Paris-Sorbonne, Observatoire Musical Français2007
Pensée et langage musical d'Edith Lejet (The Language and Musical Thought of Edith Lejet, Masters Dissertation DEA), Université Paris-Sorbonne, 2007, under the direction of Danièle Pistone. Published in « Histoire, Théorie, Analyse », n° 13, Ed. Université Paris-Sorbonne, Observatoire Musical Français, 2009, 114 p.
Article - Les enfants qui apprennent le piano ne peuvent pas mal tourner ("Children who learn the piano cannot go wrong")
Ed. Université Paris-Sorbonne, Observatoire Musical Français2007
« Les enfants qui apprennent le piano ne peuvent pas mal tourner » ("Children who learn the piano cannot go wrong") Pianists of Today: Criticism, Pedagogy, Interpretation Symposium, Université Paris-Sorbonne, 24 April 2007 article published in the "Conferences and Seminars" series, Piano and Pianists, No. 30, Université Paris-Sorbonne, Observatoire Musical Français, 2009, p. 113-119.