-An Orchestral Song for solo soprano

A Watermill produces power by moving water to run the machine. Basically, it keeps circling persistently at a slow speed, and generating an ongoing momentum to propel processes in production lines. This orchestral song portrays this image and scenery of gradual and pervasive energy seemly without a specific end.Yet, the music ceases out of the blue as if the watermill stops rotating because of the lack of precipitation.

- the pic comes from: http://content.teldap.tw/main/dc_detail.php?dc_id=8041

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Watermill(2011)

- for erhu solo (a Chinese traditional two-stringed instrument)

Tears in Barren Mountains, written in 1928, is a Peiking Opera telling a story which happened in Ming Dynasty(1368-1644) in China, and the plots disclose a truth that people are in despair while governors tax brutally and confiscate their properties improperly.

Hui-Zhu Zhang(張慧珠), the leading role in this play, goes mad and escapes into barren mountains from the hunt of governors after the rest of families have been gone by the fatal oppression.The curtain falls as she ends her life with a knife.

The Erhuist should notice this piece depicts the storylines and the performer's allowed to add ornamentals and intonation based on the idiom of erhu just like the phenomenon in traditional repertoire.

- the pic comes from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5yyJyCsaes

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Tears in Barren Mountains(2012)

- quartet for female Nanguan singer, Pipa, Guzheng, and mixed Percussion

This work is commissioned by Yun-Ju Chou, a percussionist. Based on Taiwanese folk sonority, in this piece, I manage to create a route from scattered materials bearing few meanings of the entity to several heterophonic lines twisting the material above-noted into a bundle.

Fried Dough Twist is a local sweet sold in Tianjin, a province of China. It resembles hemp rope and being covered with a heavy sugar topping. Albeit the external is crusty, the texture inside is usually dry and hard to bite. The piece refers to the sensation of experience that I have as consuming this sweet.

- the pic comes from: https://www.backpackers.com.tw/forum/showthread.php?t=919012

Fried Dough Twist(2012)

- trio for Suona in C, Gaosheng, and Guzheng

This work is commissioned by Ting-Qian Liu, a Suona Performer.

Patchwork Quilt is a covering into which pieces of various colors and incongruous shapes were sewn together. In my memory, when clothes were worn out, my family would cut them into squares and sew those
squares together to form a quilt. Hence, the colors in it were never bright but shaded, and when I compose this work, I always bear this image in my mind.

- the pic comes from: http://seokcheng.blogspot.co.at/search?updated-max=2014-01-02T11:57:00%2B08:00&max-results=3&reverse-paginate=true&start=9&by-date=false

Patchwork Quilt(2013)

- One singer and Six Taiwanese traditional percussions

This work is commissioned by He-Qing Cheng, a Beiguan singer.
Six Colors were collected from novels of Eileen Chang, a Chinese modern novelist, to represent three different kinds of women and what they've experienced in love.The first one, Liu-Su Bai, is drawn from
"Love in Fallen City" by Eileen Chang, and the other two are taken from Beiguan Operas. 

- the pic comes from: https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/plant-problems/environmental/fixing-color-faded-flowers.htm

The Forgotten Colors(2014)

- for a female dancer, cello, and piano.

Do not want to be awake.
If I do not think anything, eyes are easily closed as if I just remember myself and then forget myself completely. 

My head is swollen and empty, and my body is lazy and sore.  
I am reluctant to be sober, but I do not dare to sleep though.  
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The six scenes in the music are: 

to Drink, be Drunk, to Laugh, be Awake, to Vomit, and Fall asleep.   

the pic comes from: https://kknews.cc/world/zmzzoqq.html

Chi-Yin Lu