Emily King (Menghan Zhuang) "Celebration of Life" Student Soundworks (2023-2025) CALARTS + more

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Location: Valencia, California, United States

Lives of the New Kind of Saints_By Cristian Amigo and Migdalia Cruz. Directed By Rebecca Martinez

Title: Lives of the New Kind of Saints Description: A geo-located theater/sound piece in seven locations in Battery Park, NYC created to center energy and intentions for justice, social harmony, equality and shared humanity. Designed to live up to and including Election Day, November 3, 2020, also the Feast Day for San Martín de Porres, the saint of work for inter-racial harmony & justice. Music/Sound: Cristian Amigo Texts: Migdalia Cruz Direction: Rebecca Martinez

Emily King (Menghan Zhuang)_"Celebration of Life" Student Soundworks. 2023-2025. ------ Emily Cristian Sound music design 2024 jan 29

Quality of life perceive beauty real lives living in this planet Imagination complicated hotel rooms bedrooms beds furnitures singing weeping yearning dancing basketball courts soulful big laughs Beyond singing every details in life can be something so magical Im a lake i make your heart possible Everything every sound here is inspirational artistic artsy free spirit

I was sitting at steves in a dark night and i was playing my friend’s guitar and that was so ethereal experience so that was the process i was making these sounds the imaginations are in front of my eyes although everythings dark but it just came out naturally i love creating music with my brain and hands just be playful and playing with the sounds listening to the world it was super cold outside every parts blood elements particles molecules toes fingers hairs are frozen but the sound is alive vivid mesmerizing and touching my heart

The readings are so fascinating how beautiful everything can be we are real alive living lives The paintings in the draw read write are very creative and the sounds are so cool the beeps electros music flying in the sky i love the covered up poems A saxophone can warp time the way water refracts light

Intro

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Color Expositions (Time and Space)

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Guitar Inspiration Dark Depression

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Celebration of Life

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Happy King

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Emily King is King! ...music for her journey: Cristian Amigo

Dear CalArts Community:

I am writing to let you know that I am grief-stricken by the death of BFA4 Art student Emily King (Menghan Zhuang). She was one of my forever favorite students and took many sound and music classes with me. We talked together a lot.

Emily was creatively a six-year girl in the body of a young woman. Her head was always in a bouncy art cloud and she could have easily walked off a cliff while listening to birds. 🙂 But she could already see underneath the surface of things. Emily also had the essential X factor required of visionary artists. And so much curiosity! Too much sometimes.

I hope that what she created so far is somehow turned into a public experience of her work as she might have already reached a significant level of artistic achievement while at CalArts. Her vision was definitely up there in the high notes. Emily wanted to communicate with everyone and everything. She could render joy and be true. Complexity and a central symbol joined. Who can do that?

I cannot wrap my head around what happened to her. I cannot even think it. But as my student, she was a beautiful and gifted young person who I mentored and believed in. I still believe in her. A symbolic daughter is gone. A real artist has left this plane. Only grief and memory remain.

I will miss her terribly. I will never forget her. Curious dark eyes underneath huge glasses like you were over an upside down microscope with Emily looking up at you. She was funny for real like a cartoon. The world is diminished and deprived by her absence.

-Cristian Amigo

Emily King is King!

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