DIGEST, for voices and orchestra

Text collection : Lanqing Ding
Text finishing : Amanda Wiklin, Han han, James Herenow

15/07/2022, Orchestra Gulbenkian, Lisbon

Supported by Enoa (Aix-en-prevence Festival Academy and Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation)

Conductor : Pedro Amaral

Soprano : Eduarda Melo

Mezzo-soprano : Camila Mandillo

Baritone : André Henriques

Text :

He gouged out eyes / I gouged out eyes Because she refused my proposal.

Dark of nights, still roads, never ending My home, my bed, my silent hell

The shame. The shame. No more school. No more work, I could not He destroyed everything

Public toilets,a new nightmare for me
‘I will send this video to your father!’ / He will send this video to my father - Do you think it’s wrong?
- I feel that there’s no direct harm in what I did.

290413 (The number of times for watching this video online)
Molka (Molka is an abbreviation of Molrae-kamera (Korean: 몰래카메라), which means a sneaky camera.)

She jumped, from the seventeenth floor
‘ Your honor, is murder with a weapon the only kind of murder?’
His pleasure fulfilled, dark nights fulfilled, and slowly sucked the life from my daughter.

“submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord”
“once you get married, you are no longer your own” / “once I get married, you are no longer my own”

(These two phrases from an American pastor’s sermon which was shared to YouTube on Nov. 22 2021) “You've been drinking with him, should not it mean that you have agreed to sleep with him?”

The dark nights have given me dark eyes,
Yet I use them to seek light
(These two phrases from a small poem wrote by a Chinese poet, this is the translation version)