Writer’s rage / Musician’s song 🎸
This is not a comforting myth.
In Classic of Mountains and Seas, the world was once mapped through creatures and imagination. Here, the map feels shifting, unsettled.
In Mountains and Seas – Song of Today, shaped through Daniel York Loh’s text, the protagonist moves through a jet-lagged fever dream, travelling across a fragmented earth—encountering not only beasts of legend, but reflections of our contemporary world: history, power, identity, and environment.
This search was not for beauty,
but for something that might still ease the mind.
A writer’s rage does not sit quietly on the page—it fractures, loops, interrupts.
A musician does not resolve it—
they carry it, stretch it, echo it.
This is not harmony, but a charged coexistence.
It is difficult to call a collaborative work “mine.”Authorship dissolves in the presence of belief.
But when you meet a true believer—like 知音 (knowing the tune)—language shifts.
You begin to understand:
that frustration has rhythm,
that helplessness can be held,
and even transformed into song.
白泽Bai Ze a lion-like creature from Classic of Mountains and Seas, who speaks all languages of the human and animal realms—embodied by
@danielyorkloh at the centre of the work as writer, musician, and main performer.
@_echomorgan_ as 后土 the soil, the painter who hold all creatures together.
Filmed by
@willow.hazell
Camera Assistant:
@frombiki
Portrait by
@jamiebakerphotography
Costume by Xie Rong and
@yicraftslondon
Mountains and Seas – Song of Today
Co-produced with
@kakilangarts Supported by
@aceagrams
#collaboration #outdoortheatre #ecoart #spokenword #postrock
