Yu Kuwabara, composer
Performed by Alarm Will Sound

Live at the 2021 Mizzou International Composers Festival, July 29, 2021
From the composer:
I have always been trying to find an answer which intermediates in-between some things or some contexts; sometimes in-between the past and the present, in-between Japan and the rest of the world, or in-between language, sound, and music. Besides, the decades of my research and collaborations on traditional Japanese arts and music brought me a great question: what time and space mean for me. Therefore, over the last years, I mainly focus on investigating how to create form or time in my personal way. Nested time is a specific time field that I have defined. Through repeated ritardandi—slowing down from a constant tempo to twice the tempo—time is structured in a nested manner.

Nested Time

Huihui Cheng’s works have been performed in international festivals. She expands notions of interpretation and conceptual art through visual and theatrical elements, random operations, and the use of objects and multimedia. In 2011 she won first prize at the International Isang Yun Competition with her orchestra piece “shining”, and with her piece “Me Du Ça”, she has won the Giga-Hertz Production Prize of ZKM and SWR Experimentalstudio in 2016.​ She has published a portrait CD at WERGO / Zeitgenössische Musik 2020.​

"The very model of a modern music chamber band." - The NYTimes

Composer, Songwriter & Researcher

For contact & CV: cemozcelik@me.com

Composer，Born in Hebei China 、Live in Tokyo