Evan Ziporyn has posted video clips on Vimeo from the Indonesian performance of his new opera, “A House in Bali” based on the book of the same name by Colin McPhee. As spare as the scale of the performance is, looking at these videos gives the sense that even the western voices seem a bit overwrought so far away from the west. There is also an extensive piece Ziporyn wrote on NewMusicBox which is well worth the read. He talks about how he deals with being the outsider, much in the same way that his subject did.

Evan Ziporyn’s “A House In Bali” – Excerpt 1, Act 1 Scene 1 from Evan Ziporyn on Vimeo.