This piece was featured in the concert "Audio Visual, Handbell and Live Electronics" of Musicarama 2012, on 12th October. It is presented by the Hong Kong Composers' Guild.
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Huizi said, 'You are not a fish; how do you know what constitutes the enjoyment of fishes?'
Zhuangzi rejoined, 'You are not me. How do you know that I do not know what constitutes the enjoyment of fishes?' "Zhuangzi, The Floods of Autumn, 13"
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In fact, I am not even sure if the fishes were happy or not. I just know that watching the fishes swimming around really makes me feeling relax, which is really a kind of self-pleasure. And it also recreates what the Chinese taoist philosopher Zhuangzi's (369 BC - 286 BC) feeling toward the fishes in the dam over Hao. When the work was forming, I didn't have such philosophical question in my mind, since I originally want to create the gesture of water though different usage of the camera. Therefore, it is called "Aqua", which is "water" in Latin. Then, I realized that the gestures of the fishes are indeed outline the gesture of water - in a Taoistic sense "Softness". The music in this film carries a crucial part that it embellishes and softens the rhythmicity of the film.
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