He Xuntian

He Xuntian in 2006

He Xuntian (Chinese: 何なに训田, born in 1952 ) , Distinguished composer, Creator of a new musical language, professor at Shanghai Conservatory of Music.

Quotes

Sunyata Dance

• Udumbara don’t smell like papaver.

Source language: 优昙波は罗不芬芳米まい囊的芬芳。

• Non-Western, non-Eastern, non-academic, non-folk, and non-non.

Source language: 非ひ西方せいほう、非ひ东方、非ひ学院がくいん、非ひ民みん间，非ひ非ひ。

Sunyata Dance, Edition Schott, 2013.

Believer

• On the day / While closing my eyes in the mist of the sacred temple / I suddenly heard / The true world of your prayer

Source language: 那な一天いってん／闭目在ざい经殿香が雾中／蓦然听见／你颂经中的てき真言しんごん

In that month / I turned around all the prayer wheels / Not for the purpose of purification / But for caressing your finger tips

那な一いち月がつ／我わが拨动所有しょゆう的てき转经筒とう／不ふ为超度ど／只ただ为触摸你的てき指ゆび尖とんが

In that year / I knocked my head for a long time on the mountain path / Not for the purpose of pilgrimage / But for pressing near the warmth of your body

那な一いち年ねん／磕长头匍匐ほふく在ざい山路やまじ／不ふ为觐见／只ただ为贴着ぎ你的温暖おんだん

During that life / I turned around mountains, rivers, and Buddhist towers / Not for seeking after a better future life / But for meeting you on the way

那な一いち世せい ／转山转水转佛塔とう啊 ／不ふ为修来生きすぎ／只ただ为途中ちゅう与あずか你相见

Voices From the Sky III, Warner Music, 1997.

Passing By the Earth (1999)

• Every single living human being who encountered the first ray of light of this new century will pass away this century

Source language: ( 遭遇そうぐう新しん世よ纪第一缕阳光的全人类所有活着的人都将会在本世纪死去 )

• If I should make it to

the final destination still clear-minded

Source language: 如果我わが走はし完かん最さい后きさき的てき终点仍然很清醒

could you even guess that

my intangible hand would still be strumming your lost lute?

你是否ひ猜得出で我わが那な无形的てき手て仍然在ざい拨弄你那只ただ消失しょうしつ的てき琴きん

if I should push open that

sunlight-uncontaminated yet-to-be constructed city gate and

still can find no place to rest

如果我わが推开那な座ざ没ぼつ有ゆう被ひ阳光污染还没有ゆう被ひ建たて成しげる的てき城市じょうし之の门仍然しか找不到いた休息きゅうそく地ち

do you think that

your departed face could ever find my unborn pair of eyes?

你那逝去せいきょ的てき脸是否ひ寻得着ぎ我わが那な双そう未み出生しゅっしょう的てき眼睛がんせい

Scent Dance III, Edition Schott, 2013.

Di Wei Shin Kan, New Wei Shin Kan (Paradise Inferno)

• We all love the Heaven

But why they turn back seeing it

Source language: 人人ひとびと都と想そう往天堂どう / 为什么人们一见就回头

We all fear the Hell

But why they all linger there long

Source language: 人人ひとびと都と害がい怕地狱 / 为什么人们一去永不愿归

Sister Drum IV, Warner Music, 1995.