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A highly peculiar place
in the Ile-de-France, the Wan Yun Lou pagoda is not a place of cult but a Chinese music
hall or a cultural meeting place. Built in the garden of the house of TCHEN
Gi-Vane in Rambouillet and according to her plans,the pagoda replies scupulously
to the taoïst symbolism of space; seen from the exterior, it has two floors of octogonal
form and, in the interior, the space of the ground floor is cicular.
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This construction refers
to the symbolism of numbers, the eight trigrams of the Yi-King, according to the the
Chinese book of the order of the world. TCHEN Gi-Vane regrets some
details : the tiles are not varnished and the sixteen angles of the roof do not end by
fishbones conceived in Asia.
When one penetrates inside, the exoticism is complete: the decoration is
essentially composed around a very beautiful collection of ancient unpitched musical
instruments from various countries of Asia : gongs, bells, handbells, drums, cymbals,
wooden fish, etc, that symbolize the eight elements.
After ten years of research, TCHEN Gi-Vane succeeded in
finding ancient Chinese music according to texts and thanks to instruments that have
little changed since Confucius.
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During her concerts, TCHEN
Gi-Vane, in traditional clothing, evolves with a mysterious grace amidst her
instruments. Through the magic of sounds, she invites her audience on a resonant trip
where she resuscitates primitive Chinese music, a little known esthetic among Westerners.
Text : partly from Dominique Camus:
"Le guide des maisons d'artistes et d'écrivains en région
parisienne"
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This WAN YUN LOU
pagoda is a synthesis of Chinese and Japanese traditional architecture art over several
thousand years with the modern implementation of materials, such as laminated glued wood
and insulation technology. TCHEN Gi-Vane thought that today it would be
better not to conceive of a structure in concrete or iron. She wished to find some
associate to build some other pagoda or building of prestige following her design.
PROPOSAL
Following the brilliant construction success in 1976 of the Pagoda-Auditorium
of Music WAN YUN LOU, where thousands of people from all over the world have come
to visit and listen to music, TCHEN Gi-Vane has been encouraged to
develope a more extensive complex. This new creation would allow music lovers to meet in
an agreeable environment inspired by the canons of ancient Chinese, Japanese, Korean,
Vitnamese architecture using new wooden material, called laminated glued wood,
intelligently...
She thinks it would be interesting to build such International Music and
Artistic Creation Conservatories throughout the world in exceptional places and, if
possible, in close proximity to both nature and centers of creative activity. These
Conservatories should be constructed alog the linesl of the Pagoda-Auditorum of
Music WAN YUN LOU, the amazing acoustics of which suit a variety of unpitched and
little known forms of music and intruments . Each Conservatory would be surrounded by
grounds with the homes of composers, creators, art collectors...
As it is described in "Le guide des maisons d'artistes et
d'écrivains en région parisienne", from inside the concert hall of the Pagoda-Auditorum
of Music WAN YUN LOU, one can see the surrounding garden. How different from
normal auditoriums!
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She has already developed an
operable design.
Proposals are welcome.
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