Written for pianist Kay (Yuan Yuan) He, time, forward explores my visions of time and the stretching of time through augmenting the sounds of a piano with live electronic processing. The performer often has the liberty to control the duration of the resonance of each sonority (resulting from the aleatoric notation), both reacting to and controlling the electronics. The title “time, forward” describes such interaction and the resulting momentum in the music. The fixed sample playbacks used are mostly pre-recorded sounds from inside the piano and live-recorded sounds. Live processing techniques such as feedback delay, chorusing, flanging, harmonizer and granular synthesis are used to enhance the harmonic spectrum as well as to stimulate conversations between the performer and the computer.

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Composer Patrick Chin Ting CHAN grew up in Hong Kong and came to the United States in 2003. He has been featured in events including Ars Electronica, IRCAM's ManiFeste, ISCM World Music Days, UNESCO International Rostrum of Composers, and Venice Art Biennale, among others. He has worked with ensembles such as City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong, Ensemble intercontemporain (France), Ensemble Metamorphosis (Serbia), eighth blackbird (U.S.), Hong Kong New Music Ensemble, Mivos Quartet (U.S.), and New York New Music Ensemble, with performances in more than thirty countries. His scores are published through BabelScores and Universal Edition. He is also an active performer and improviser of accordion, guqin, as well as live electronics using a Eurorack modular system and other custom interfaces on the computer. He is currently an Associate Professor of Music Composition at Ball State University.

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