Lo Sirong’s Album More than One as Female Ecotopia

The essay discusses the 2015 album More than One by Lo Sirong, a female singer-songwriter of Hakka origin from Taiwan. For her album, Lo set to music twelve poems by modern women poets from Taiwan. She arranged the poems into an intersubjective narrative of womanhood against a background of varying collective identities, such as a family, a nation, an ethnic group, a human being, and finally, to the universe of other-than-human multitudes. From the polyphony of poetic voices and languages, Lo created a sonic representation of shared and distinct female sensibilities across Taiwan’s space and history.