Music of Tranquility that Brings Peace to Mind and Transcends Thousands of Years
Ancient Wisdom of the Oriental, Merciful Advice of Bodhisattva

“I used to like showing off my skills during performance. Now I begin to understand the art of deduction. Following one deduction after another, the superficial glamour is eventually gone. What has been left in the creation is just a dialogue between me and the one I used to be.”–Wang Xinxin

Temporality and Nirvanais a masterpiece created by modern Chinese nanguang musician Wang Xinxin after she has achieved another level of understanding about lives. The first part, Spring Festival, presents the primitive yet elegant music style of nanguang in a nine-person ensemble. The second part, Temporality and Nirvana, is a new piece of nanguang music re-arranged by Wang Xinxin based on the theme of Guanyin Bodhisattva (aka. Buddha of Mercy). The Heart Sutra in Temporality and Nirvana, in particular, describes Guanyin’s wisdom as a vehicle, carrying people from this shore to that shore and then arriving at Buddha’s kingdom. With the signature slow rhythms of nanguang, each word of the lyric are deliberately prolonged for the audiences to patiently savor its meaning as if they were all utterances of Guanyin.