Iconic speeches sometimes can be useless or not helpful in terms of what the speaker demands. However powerful the speech is, it doesn't really make much difference after it is given - it has significance, but no improvement in the situation. Sometimes people get radicalized not because they want violence, rather, it’s a result of that no one cares when they are nice and polite. I recognised the agony in those speeches, and try to eliminate the subject or nouns that specify what the original speech mentioned – to show how these speeches share the same fierce and frustration.
(Stella Chin-Ting Yang 楊謹庭 2023)


Part 1: 
Greta Thunberg mocks world leaders (2022)

Part 2:
Volodymyr Zelenskyy calls for help in international meetings (2022)

Part 3:
Tiananmen Square protests and massacre (speech by government and students) + some recent speeches by Xi Jinping (2022).

Part 4:
Emmeline Pankhurst’s Freedom or Death (1913)

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This piece was performed live at |ADSR|5, and this is a recording made the following week. 
It will be performed, featuring a new arrangement at Iklectik on 13th June.

released May 19, 2023 
Stella Chin-Ting Yang - Voice
Tokoro 23 - Cello, electronics, samples

Composed by Stella Chin-Ting Yang 楊謹庭 & Martyn Riley

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