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Eyvind Kang Biography

Eyvindur (Eyvind) Kang (born 23 June 1971 in Corvallis, Oregon, United States) is a composer and violist. He was raised in Canada and the United States, and has since lived and worked in countries ranging from Italy to Iceland.

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Water is the most purifying element. It's always involved in baptisms, healings, that kind of work.

Baptism, Element, Healing, Healings, Kind, Water

There is no guiding principle, because the work that is created in collaborations should be created from its own principles.

Collaboration, Collaborations, Created, Guiding Principles, Principle, Principles

Working with the Latin language is pretty powerful. Working with a language that is not spoken vernacularly is intense.

Intense, Language, Latin, Powerful, Pretty

Our individual consciousness is actually part of a larger system. There are many levels of consciousness, and the creativity used in composing the music comes from another level that is not purely personal.

Consciousness, Creativity, Levels, Part, System, Used

The most appealing part is the feeling of learning something true - the pleasure of a truth. For me, that's mostly found in philosophical literature at the moment.

Feelings, Found, Literature, Part, Philosophical, True

Even if you're a genius and you invent your own language, it doesn't become a language until there are people using it.

Genius, Invent, Language, People, Using

In a way, composing on the melodic level is an expression of a melodic truth, almost like a geometric truth. If it has clarity, other people will recognize it. There's no way of isolating it in a gallery on a white wall and saying, "This is a work of art. This is a mathematical proof. "

Art, Melodic, Wall, White, Work

I woke up and was walking on a mountain, and I thought, "What's the worst thing that humans could do to the planet? Make it uninhabitable for humans and kill wildlife. "

Mountain, Planets, Thought, Wildlife

Who approaches collaboration with agenda in terms of content? The agenda is only in terms of process, which is generosity, listening, careful thinking.

Generosity, Listening, Terms, Thinking

I don't like to treat words and sounds like objects. You have to penetrate deeply into their meaning.

Deeply, Meaning, Penetrate, Sound, Treat, Treats

I love the appropriateness of making a dogmatic statement. I support that, but that is a different level of the individual consciousness than was the source of our music.

Appropriateness, Different, Dogmatic, Levels, Source, Support

All these emotions are coming from one thing - sound. It's not coming from your experiences in life, your childhood. It's related to those things, but it's being triggered by the sound.

Childhood, Emotion, Experiences, Life, Related, Sound

When you're listening to music, you listen to it with a friend one day and it sounds one way. You listen to it with another friend the next day, and it sounds a little different. Sometimes the greatest pleasure of listening is not the music that you're listening to; it's the person that you're listening to it with.

Different, Listen, Listening, Next Day, One Day

Listening is active. It's like vision. It's like the idea of the eye projecting light, which I've heard is what children and infants say when they're asked to explain vision - that the eye projects light, rather than just receives it.

Asked, Children, Eye, Light, Listening, Projecting

Musicians always want to sacrifice our creativity to get involved in environmental issues or political activism of some sort - to reduce it to something more populist in terms of sing-alongs or guitar songs with a message.

Creativity, Guitar, Musicians, Sacrifice, Song

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