ABSTRACT
Radice explores Chou’s youth in China, studies in the United States, years at Columbia University, relationship with Varèse, and his developing career. Chou’s “variable modes” and their connections with I Ching and twelve-note procedures show fully developed polyculturalism. Chou’s marriage to Yi-an Chang and legal issues relating to Varèse provide intriguing twists in the narrative as do Chou’s rescue of the CRI recordings and establishment of the US-China Arts Exchange (1970). Radice concludes with an overview of Chou’s works from Echoes from the Gorge (1989) to Eternal Pine III (2012) and the transfer (2003) of both Varèse’s and Chou’s music to the Sacher Foundation, Basel, Switzerland.
