{"id":1010,"date":"2025-06-07T22:07:01","date_gmt":"2025-06-08T02:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yanchenye.com\/?p=1010"},"modified":"2025-11-09T02:32:54","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T07:32:54","slug":"sichuan-boiled-fish-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yanchenye.com\/zh\/sichuan-boiled-fish-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Sichuan Boiled Fish (2024)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"boldgrid-section\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"row\" style=\"padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;\">\n<div class=\"col-lg-12 col-md-12 col-sm-12 col-xs-12\" style=\"border-width: 0px;\">\n<p class=\"\" style=\"text-align: left; border-width: 0px;\"><a class=\"button-secondary btn btn-neutral-color btn-border-transparent btn btn-neutral-color btn-border-transparent\" style=\"border-width: 0px; padding-right: 1em; padding-left: 1em;\" href=\"https:\/\/yanchenye.com\/zh\/composition\/\">&lt; \u8fd4\u56de\u76ee\u5f55<\/a><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row\" style=\"padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 5px;\">\n<div class=\"col-lg-4 col-md-6 col-sm-6 col-xs-12\" style=\"border-width: 0px;\"><iframe id=\"sampleScore\" src=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1jG3-Sn1aQUaKa0A3XZ42arp8ygTAB9Ay\/preview\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-lg-8 col-md-6 col-sm-6 col-xs-12\">\n<h1 class=\"\" style=\"border-width: 0px; line-height: 1em;\">Sichuan Boiled Fish<\/h1>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"border-width: 0px; line-height: 1em;\">for violin and bass clarinet (2024) 10 min.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Commissioned by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ganzmatt.com\/\">Matt Albert<\/a>.<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ganzmatt.com\/violin\/sichuan-boiled-fish\">First Recording<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ganzmatt.com\/\">Matt Albert<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theandyhudson.com\/\">Andy Hudson<\/a> in 2025\n<div class=\"youtube\" style=\"width: 100%; text-align: center; margin: 2rem 0;\">\n    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"margin: auto;\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/10sI9VlERKs?si=p9XSTfMbQk-0ckFU\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div class=\"contactbutton\" style=\"padding: 2rem 0;\"><a class=\"button-primary btn btn-color-5 btn-border-color-1 btn btn-color-5 btn-border-color-1\" style=\"line-height: 1; white-space: normal; padding: 10px 1em; border-width: 0px; margin: 1rem auto;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/ncp\/payment\/V5D8QAQKCY35U\">Purchase performance material<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row\" style=\"padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;\">\n<div class=\"collapsable\">\n\n<button class=\"accordion\">Program Note<\/button>\n<div class=\"panel\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sichuan Boiled Fish <i>(\u6c34\u716e\u9c7c)<\/i> begins where the Yangtze River meets Chongqing\u2019s fog\u2014a dish born on fishing boats, where rough hands tossed freshly caught fish into communal woks blazing with chili and the tingling spark of <i>hu\u0101ji\u0101o (\u82b1\u6912)<\/i>. This was food as survival, as camaraderie, steeped in the sweat and currents of the riverfolk. Yet today, its name circles the globe: from Chengdu\u2019s steam-clouded hotpot halls to Chinatown storefronts where &#8220;Authentic Sichuan&#8221; glows beside neon dragons. Every culture that embraces it rewrites its story.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I wrote this piece after five years away from Chongqing. Memory, like cuisine, distorts with distance. What emerged wasn\u2019t a tribute to tradition, but a ghost of it: Imagine a quiet courtyard pond where a fish rules its watery kingdom. A mansion master plots a capture, and a kitchen transforms sustenance into artistry&#8211;blades moving like calligraphy brushes, spices blooming in precise clouds. This isn\u2019t the fish of my grandmother\u2019s stories; it\u2019s a new creature swimming through my imagination.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When traditions travel, what do we gain and lose in translation? That American-Chinese storefront version, some Tokyo fusion experiment, even this courtyard fantasy\u2014each feels both alien and familiar. Does the elegance of that final kitchen scene feel like reverence? Betrayal? Or simply another way of being? This piece holds no answers. It\u2019s a vessel\u2014for my nostalgia, for your imagination.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\u00a9Yanchen Ye<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt; Back to list Sichuan Boiled Fish for violin and bass clarinet (2024) 10 min. Commissioned by Matt Albert. 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