A portrait of the composer Ying Wang through six works from 2008 to 2015, most of them for a single instrument with electronics. Her music grows from Chinese roots and European training, and she is especially drawn to transferring techniques of electronic sound production to acoustic instruments. Dramatic impulses sit next to slow, sensual sonorities.

Wang was born in Shanghai on 10 September 1976 and began studying at the Shanghai Conservatory. In 2003 she moved to Germany at the invitation of York Höller, with whom she studied for seven years in Cologne, alongside electronic composition with Michael Beil. She also studied with Rebecca Saunders and Johannes Schöllhorn, and joined IRCAM's Cursus in 2012. In 2015 she was composer in residence at the Forum neuer Musik of Deutschlandfunk, and this disc is a Deutschlandfunk production from that year, co-produced with Deutschlandradio. The soloists are Nikola Lutz (saxophone), Teodoro Anzellotti (accordion), Nina Janßen-Deinzer (clarinet) and Isao Nakamura (drums), with Ensemble Phoenix Basel and MAM.manufaktur für aktuelle musik. Wang herself performs the electronics.

In Tun Tu (2012) baritone saxophone and electronic sounds meet in an imaginary landscape. The distorted sounds of the instrument, set in a field of mysterious electronic colours, at first seem almost improvised, but the piece is rigorously organised. Wave in D (2008), for accordion and electronics, works with restriction and freedom, drawing a wide range of colours from extremely limited pitch material. Focus Exchange (2015), for clarinet and electronics, is the longest piece at almost fifteen minutes. Tip to Top (2015) is a dialogue with fingers for solo drum, and Glissadulation (2014) is for ensemble alone.

Coffee & Tea (2013), for ensemble and electronics, uses the two drinks as metaphors for the contrast between Asian and European cultures, a tension Wang has lived herself. Raised by a composer father and a ballerina mother among European music, she has said she does not want to be classed as a Chinese artist, though she returns at times to traditional instruments. Her prizes include the Giga-Hertz Prize and first prize at the Brandenburg Biennale, both in 2013, and the Irino Prize in 2015.

CD, Wergo WER 7347 2, released in 2017 with the subtitle Chamber Music Renewed.