CHAN: Sonnets and Devotions in the Wilderness, 6 Kundimans

»CHAN: Sonnets and Devotions in the Wilderness« comprises six kundimans by Filipinx-American composer, percussionist and sound artist Susie Ibarra. The kundiman is a genre of traditional Filipino love song, in this case an expression of Ibarra’s love for nature, dedicated to landscapes that are dear to her after having lived or spent time near them: the migrating beech trees of the medieval forests of Germany; the Warsaw-Berlin ice-marginal spillway; Lake Tsongmo, a sacred glacial lake in the Himalayan Mountains of North Sikkim, India; and the Pasig River along the Manila Bay in Luzon. Historically, this river in her homeland was culturally important as a source of water and a route for travel.