Shooting Star is a sound art work that depicts in multi-track stereo the age-old yet suddenly, technologically-accelerated process of the convergence of Eastern and Western cultures in our time. The piece reveals the uneasy though ultimately harmonious blending of differing traditions in the context of the rapidly changing 21st century world.

The piece is comprised of two primary elements in multiple, interwoven layers: 1) performance by Scott F. Hall on the dan bau, a rare acoustic-electric single-stringed musical instrument native to Vietnam and; 2) recitation by Classics scholar Eleni Manolaraki the poem BYRON by Kostas Kariotakis in the original Greek language in which it was written. 

BYRON by Kostas Kariotakis

Ενοιωσεν ότι
του ήταν οι στίχοι
άχαρη τύχη 
και ματαιότη.

Η ορμή του η πρώτη  
πια δεν αντήχει,  
αλλά, στα τείχη,   
ένδοξη νιότη.  

Γίνονται οι γέροι  
γαύρoi. Θα ορμήσει  
ανδρών λουλούδι.  

Κι ο Μπάιρον ξέρει   
πώς να το ζήσει  
το θέιο Τραγούδι.   

BYRON
 
He felt that
His verses were to him
A graceless fate and vanity.
 
His first rush
Did not echo anymore
But on the walls
glorious youth.
 
Even old men can be
courageous. He will forge ahead,
the flower of men.

And Byron knows
How to live out
His divine Poem.