Ming Tsao: Plus Minus

Tsao's music renews the idea of the lyric in contemporary music that becomes fractured, damaged, multi-perspective, complex and problematized in order to negotiate the complexities of the surrounding world. His music constitutes an example of the “speculative turn” in music composition that posits possible worlds as a counterpoint to our contemporary understanding of place, where musical lyricism is sensitive to relations between human impact and presence in the more-than-human world.