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Photo: You-Wei Chen & Hong-Kai Wang
The Broken Orchestra Live
2012/2013
Performance
The composer composes the future so that the composition leaves the traces of the future which the future won't leave, TheCube Project Space, Taipei
Performers: Pei-Yao Wang, Lu Keng Feng, Luo Chao Yun, Wolfgang Schwabe, Chen Bo-Wei
Transposed Order, Iaspis, Stockholm
Performers: Maria Arnqvist, Anders Bryngelsson, George Kentros, Robin McGinley, Cecilia Österholm, Robert Spångberg
Kunsthall Trondheim, Trondheim, Norway
Performers: Bergmund Skaslien, Kyrre Låstad, Petter Vågan, Audun Eriksen Mette Henriette Rølvåg
 
The Broken Orchestra Live uses the Austrian modern composer Arnold Schönberg's famous quip "My music is not really modern, just badly played" as its formal performative directive, by inviting several professional musicians to reinterpret a childhood recording of Bach's 'Ave Maria' as performed by Hong-Kai Wang and her brother.

The work shares an impromptu discussion, rehearsal, and performance as the audience witnesses the construction of a unique musical space.