{"id":27343,"date":"2016-02-22T00:00:17","date_gmt":"2016-02-22T08:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dvan.org\/?p=27343"},"modified":"2018-10-14T21:57:51","modified_gmt":"2018-10-15T04:57:51","slug":"the-oddysey-from-vietnam-to-america-an-interview-with-van-anh-vo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dvan.org\/2016\/02\/the-oddysey-from-vietnam-to-america-an-interview-with-van-anh-vo\/","title":{"rendered":"The Odyssey &#8211; From Vietnam to America: An Interview with V\u00e2n-\u00c1nh V\u00f5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>New America Media editor and diaCRITIC Andrew Lam interviews composer\u00a0V\u00e2n-\u00c1nh V\u00f5. The following article was <a href=\"http:\/\/newamericamedia.org\/2016\/01\/the-odyssey---from-vietnam-to-america-an-interview-with-van-anh-vo-1.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">originally printed on <\/a><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/newamericamedia.org\/2016\/01\/the-odyssey---from-vietnam-to-america-an-interview-with-van-anh-vo-1.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New America Media<\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-31948\" src=\"https:\/\/dvan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/VanAhnVo-Odyssey-feat-img.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"449\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dvan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/VanAhnVo-Odyssey-feat-img.jpg 970w, https:\/\/dvan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/VanAhnVo-Odyssey-feat-img-600x337.jpg 600w, https:\/\/dvan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/VanAhnVo-Odyssey-feat-img-800x449.jpg 800w, https:\/\/dvan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/VanAhnVo-Odyssey-feat-img-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dvan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/VanAhnVo-Odyssey-feat-img-696x391.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><i>Oscar-nominated and Emmy Award-winning\u00a0composer\u00a0V\u00e2n-\u00c1nh V\u00f5\u00a0premieres her new musical epic this month in San Francisco, inspired by the experiences of the Vietnamese Boat People. Integrating traditional and new instruments, video, field recordings and interviews with survivors,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ybca.org\/odyssey\">The Odyssey\u2013From Vietnam to America<\/a>\u00a0reflects the resilience of the human spirit and the price of freedom. The work was created in partnership with\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/aaci.org\/\">Asian Americans for Community Involvement<\/a> (AACI). She spoke with New America Media editor <a href=\"http:\/\/newamericamedia.org\/author\/andrew-lam\/\">Andrew Lam<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8y02Rv8sQzw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><b>How difficult was it to be a woman breaking into the traditional music scene in Vietnam, where men have dominated for centuries?<br \/>\n<\/b><br \/>\nIt was not easy. But I started to learn music when I was four. My father taught me. I learned\u00a0dan tranh [plucked zither]\u00a0when I was six. I went to the National Conservatory of Music that leaned toward a western education. \u2028\u2028For traditional music, I had to find the right masters, who are all men. However, the master-apprentice system only works with masters\u2019 family members. I refused to accept the notion that [just because] I am not a family member I couldn\u2019t learn the music. I started to go to the master\u2019s house but none of them wanted to take me in. I literally had to be an in-house slave for three years before I earned the master\u2019s trust and was accepted to be his apprentice. Since then he introduced me to other masters and I learned traditional music from them.<\/p>\n<p>One of my masters took me to spiritual ceremonies. But as soon as I arrived, everyone rolled their eyes. You\u2019re not supposed to have a female player there. I just walked in and started to play. And as soon as I played, you could see people realize music is\u00a0music and it didn\u2019t matter if you are male or female.<\/p>\n<p><b>What is it like growing up in Vietnam?<br \/>\n<\/b><br \/>\nI was born after the Vietnam War ended. My childhood was very happy even though we were very poor. I saw many strange objects.\u00a0Like the washbasin and garbage bins were made from an artillery shell, the school stairwell was made from parts of a downed B-52 bomber.\u2028\u2028 My father enlisted in the army but to avoid fighting he joined the music section. He and his bandmates had to play music to cheer the survivors after battles. After the war he became a musician for the national orchestra.<\/p>\n<p>Since my father worked for the national theater, he was assigned a 260-square-foot studio for the family. Everyone around worked in the arts.\u00a0Early in the morning, I would hear people practice their music. Someone in front practiced\u00a0Cai Luong [southern folk opera]. Someone in the back practiced Western Opera. To the right someone was practicing funeral music. To the left someone was learning the rhythm of American rock. I guess it all sank into me somehow.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dvan.org\/?p=27404\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-25972\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-25972 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/dvan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/20150404_Donate-Subscribe-diaCRITICS_640x120f.jpg\" alt=\"Donate or Subscribe to diaCRITICS\" width=\"640\" height=\"120\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dvan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/20150404_Donate-Subscribe-diaCRITICS_640x120f.jpg 640w, https:\/\/dvan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/20150404_Donate-Subscribe-diaCRITICS_640x120f-600x113.jpg 600w, https:\/\/dvan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/20150404_Donate-Subscribe-diaCRITICS_640x120f-300x56.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>How was your transition from Vietnam to America?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>I came here the first time for my concert tour in 1995, right after the two countries reestablished their relationship. I was performing in the San Francisco Bay Area for about a month. I met my future husband who was a volunteer who hosted us. After five years we married and I moved here in 2001. My husband was a refugee and boat person but he\u2019s been here a long time.<\/p>\n<p>What I love about America is that it\u2019s so free. You can do whatever you want, and there\u2019s such diversity in the Bay Area. I figured I\u2019d find a way to do my music in my own voice, to put the heartbeat of the 21st century in my work.\u00a0I listened to jazz and I found that it has the same pentatonic scale as traditional Vietnamese music. The terms \u201cjam\u201d and \u201cimprovisation\u201d are very familiar in Vietnamese traditional music. \u2028\u2028How is jazz like traditional Vietnamese music? \u2028\u2028In traditional music, we learn it first the way it is. After you master it, you start to create your own version of the song.<\/p>\n<p><b><i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.innova.mu\/albums\/van-anh-vanessa-vo\/three-mountain-pass\">Three-Mountain Pass,<\/a><\/i> your latest album, is a major step in making the Old World new again with a nod to chamber music. How do you walk the line between traditional Vietnamese music and Western music?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a fine line to walk. I rearranged the traditional music\u00a0<i>Lieu Thuy Truong<\/i> &#8211;\u00a0Green River Delta &#8211; for the Kronos Quartet to play with me. Kronos and I spent a long time together to get to the roots of the musical genres and really get into the Vietnamese culture. To express the sound from Vietnamese traditional music, I had them use chopsticks on violins. We tried other things like pencils, but it didn\u2019t work so well. So we went to a nearby Vietnamese restaurant and tried the chopsticks on the violin to give perfect sounds of Vietnamese\u00a0Dan Nguyet [moon lute] and it sounded exactly like it was supposed to. For the cello, we used the sea turtle shell pick to pluck.<\/p>\n<p><b>You were not a refugee, but <em>The Odyssey &#8211; From Vietnam to America<\/em> really speaks to the refugee experience.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The Odyssey praises the strength of the human spirit and the resilience that we all have. I came here in much better condition than other refugees. But before moving here, I was a well-established musician. And coming here, I became no one. I started from zero again. However, I learned from all my friends what they had to go through as refugees, as boat people, and I realized my struggle means nothing compared to the struggles of others. \u2028\u2028I was curious how they could survive. What helped them find strength and hope? I started to read documents written in a refugee camp and I couldn\u2019t stop reading. Those documents tell me where they came from, how they left Vietnam, their fear of being pushed out to sea, their hope. I interviewed 50 or so boat people who survived. I asked them about the sounds they remembered during their trip. The only tool I have is music. So I find ways to share their stories through music.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6ooMvRHGV7g\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>How do you make your music accessible to people who aren\u2019t familiar with traditional Vietnamese instruments?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>To me, Vietnamese traditional instruments are just another language. I believe the audience can still relate to the despair, sadness, danger and joy. I care more about how I can use sounds to express human emotions and feelings.\u00a0Besides music, we also have videos of interviews with boat people, images and real documents. Together, they help the audience take the journey.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The Odyssey &#8211; From Vietnam to America premieres January 22, 2016 in San Francisco. Visit the Yerba Buena program page for more information:<a href=\"http:\/\/ybca.org\/odyssey\"> http:\/\/ybca.org\/odyssey<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2013<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Andrew Lam<\/strong> is the author of three books:<em> Birds of Paradise Lost<\/em>, a collection of short stories,<em> Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora<\/em>, a memoir and<em> East Eats West: Writing in Two Hemispheres<\/em>, a book about how East changes West in the age of globalization, and much of that is about food and tastes.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>Do you enjoy reading diaCRITICS? Then please\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dvan.org\/?p=27404\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">consider subscribing<\/a>!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Please take the time to rate this post (above) and share it (below). Ratings for top posts are listed on the sidebar. Sharing (on email, Facebook, etc.) helps spread the word about diaCRITICS. And join the conversation and leave a comment!\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Integrating traditional and new instruments, video, field recordings and interviews with survivors,\u00a0<i>The Odyssey\u2013From Vietnam to America<i>\u00a0reflects the resilience of the human spirit and the price of freedom. The work was created in partnership with\u00a0Asian Americans for Community Involvement (AACI). 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