We live in a time when artists are moving everywhere – crossing borders, exchanging ideas, and making genuine connections. Certainly, technology and the Internet have brought all of us into closer contact. The arts help to engage cultures in new conversations. The role of music in particular – the making and sharing of music – allows us to create a "space" – more precisely a "sound-space" – where we are receptive and open to everything around us and where we feel connected to the larger world. It is in this "sound-space" that different cultures can meet and share their wide varieties of human experience and their hopes for genuine happiness.
from "Composer as Cross-Cultural Ambassador"
Beijing, May 2010
Beijing, May 2010