[Play List]

The work is presented on a 60-minute repeating loop and begins every hour on the hour.

Poem Author Present Area Estimated Period Composition Composer Duration
An Old Wandering

Woman’s Lament

Heo Gyun Korea 17th century Heo Gyun, Reciting, An Old

Wandering Woman’s Lament

Ye-song Ra 00:06:28
[Kerria], [Songs of

the Frontier Guards]

Ōtomo no Yakamochi, Hasetsukabe no Mamaro Japan 7th–8th century Nagimu Kokoro / haha to iu hana

(A Soothed Heart /

the flower known as Mother)

Ken Ueno 00:07:18
Syair Perahu (Boat Poem) Hamzah Fansuri Indonesia 16th–17th century The Boat Ode Dion Nataraja 00:06:13
Crossing the Cao’e River Wei Geng China 17th century Crossing the Cao’e River Chen-Hui Jen 00:06:33
Tianzi Chounu’er: Who Planted the

Banana Tree Before My Window?

Li Qingzhao China 12th century Shadow Song Alice Hoi-ching

Yeung

00:06:11
Sandeśarāsaka (A Message Poem) Abdul Rahman India 13th century Night Kamala Sankaram 00:05:53
Tawathotsamat (Twelve Months) Anonymous Thailand 15th century Kroḥ’rab

(To Fill, To Receive)

Thanakarn Schofield 00:06:26
Be the Volga, Be the Ural Asan Kaigy Kazakhstan 15th century Köchip-konip körmegen

(Those Who Never Roamed)

Sanzhar Baiterekov 00:05:46
A Sojourner’s Song from Distant Lands Kim Woo-rak Korea

 

1911 Vox inter Dahae Boo 00:07:24

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