Ping Chong archive. Audio materials

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Ping Chong archive. Audio materials

http://archives.nypl.org/rha/22117

The audio portion of the collection consists of recordings related to the career of Ping Chong, and his company, originally the Fiji Company, but re-named Ping Chong and Company. Items are mostly sound elements or effects, including many production, pre-production, or working recordings for works created, produced and/or directed by Ping Chong, as well as a few recordings of actual performances, rehearsals, or interviews. Some of the audio is from collaborations with other artists including Meredith Monk and Muna Tseng, among others. Work titles represented in the collection include: After Sorrow, AM/AM: the articulated man, Angels of Swedenborg, Anna into nightlight, Astonishment and the twins, Brightness, Chinoiserie, Deshima, Elephant memories, Fear and loathing in Gotham, Humboldt's current, I will not be sad in this world, Kind ness, Maraya: acts of nature in geological time, Nosferatu: a symphony of darkness, Nuit Blanche, OBON: tales of rain and moonlight, Pojagi, A Race, Rainer and the knife, Slut for art, Snow, and Undesirable elements, among others.

356 sound recordings

The New York Public Library. Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound.

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Ping Chong & Company

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Chong, Ping

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Ping Chong is an interdisciplinary theatre director, choreographer, videographer and installation artist. He studied visual arts, dance, and filmmaking, and originally intended to work in film. His career began in the early 1970s when he joined Meredith Monk's performance company. Monk, a pioneer of experimental and interdisciplinary theater, steered Chong in that direction; his collaborations with Monk included The Travelogue Series and, later, The Games . Since 1972, h...