Chloe Yu Nong Lin

Pi Sound is the debut album by Chloe Yu Nong Lin. Lin is a musician from Taiwan practicing electroacoustic composition and improvisation on the pipa, or Chinese lute, an instrument that dates back to the Han dynasty almost 2000 years ago. In Lin’s audio-visual works, she focuses on the relationship between her body movements and her instrument. Her performances involve music, sounds, silence, movements, light and shadow. Working with patch systems, Lin combines the acoustic sounds of the pipa with unpredictable electronics to discover the instrument's new sounds in the electroacoustic world. Lin’s unique contemporary process liberates the pipa from the dusty confines of tradition, revealing exciting possibilities for an instrument that has been generally limited to traditional court music orchestras, conservatories and more recently, Western classical music.