MERIDIANS

While meridian paths are often associated with acupuncture tracts, they can also be accessed at the wrist through palpation. When one palpates, one accesses deeper movements in the body through grasping six sites on each wrist. With one hand, you can access three floating sites closer to the surface of the skin in addition to three sunken sites when you press further down. The surface sites are classified as Yang sites, and the deeper sites are classified as Yin sites. These sites are associated with meridian paths.

Each site is more importantly associated with a particular organ. These organs include the small intestine, heart, gall bladder, liver, bladder, kidneys, large intestine, lungs, stomach, spleen, sanjiao, and pericardium. Practiced palpatory read the state of these organs. In theory, Yin-Yang organs that ground Yin-Yang meridian paths are further connected to particular colors and musical modes. This exhibit features original music composed in the associated musical modes, which are translated through its associated colors. 

MODES 

Musical Modes Chinese music theory recognizes varying diatonic scalar structures, but the essential tonal material is five tones since ancient times. These five tones are named gong, shang, jiao, zhi, and yu, which are identifiable with C, D, E, G, and A in intervallic relation in common (or Western) music theory. Tone gong is “the lord [master] of all tones,” other shang, jiao, zhi, and yu do function as tonics (or central tones) in traditional Chinese music. Hence, there are five modes in Chinese music: Gong mode, Shang mode, Jiao mode, Zhi mode, and Yu mode, although the music of Jiao mode is rare. (text by Guangming Li)

MUSIC

Chi Li, Josh Harper, Tristan Revels, Lan Li

GONG

 

SHANG 

 

JIAO

 

ZHI

 

YU