The Water Dragon - Concerto For Zhongruan And Chinese Orchestra

Mastered by Alex Previty, 2021
Original Version from Secret Sky, May 2020

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Resonance

Wasatch Crest

Midnight Guest

Hush Hush

the open

Download from: https://tombsturm.bandcamp.com/album/practice-of-dying-selected-works-2011-2015

"A Singing Comet" is a continuation of my work with transcribing sounds recorded in space for various acoustic ensembles. This piece began as an experiment in transcription of the sound emitted by the Comet 67p and recorded by Rosetta’s Plasma Consortium. After a complete transcription, I began to make musical interventions in the material, adding my own textures and musical contexts for the sound of the comet to travel through. In this way, "A Singing Comet" serves as a representation both of the actual sound of the comet, and the metaphoric representation of its travel through space and its interaction with the Human Race.

Recorded on 3/15/15 by the Little Giant Ensemble during Rice University's Common Practice 21C: Classical, Contemporary, and Cross-Cultural Music Festival highlighting a variety of Chinese Instruments and contemporary compositions composed for Both Chinese and Western Classical ensembles.

Video Performance Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2ZX1zGSNwE&feature=youtu.be

A Singing Comet for Di-zi, Sheng, Erhu, Pipa, Zhongruan, and Yangqin

cute main menu

Fever Dream

Pixel art by Grafxkid at https://grafxkid.itch.io/

Fun Run

Stream

North Wind

Flute: Erin Prendergast

Written for the 2021 Sewanee Winterfest.

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Our brains get triggered by new experiences in a way that increases attention, learning, and memory, and elongates our perception of time. (Hikes and drives always feel shorter on the way back, hey?) During the COVID-19 pandemic, for many of us who are holed up at home (if we get to stay at home) doing and seeing the same things repeatedly, our senses of time have accelerated to a blur. These last eleven months have felt simultaneously like two weeks and ten years.

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Geoff Li is a composer and sound designer for games, TV, and the concert hall. He is part of the music production team Madcap Labs, with whom he scores the Pokémon TV series. Unapologetic in his love of various styles, he draws extensively from his background in jazz, progressive metal, electronic, and early 2000s video game music, as well as from his Korean-Chinese heritage.

Geoff has been commissioned by the Chamber Orchestra of Edmonton, Obsessions Quartet, and the C’mon Festival, among others, and his music has been played by the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra and Yardbird Suite Jazz Orchestra. He is the audio artist for indie game developer Aerobox Games. From 2021-2023, he served on council and, later, as head of the Professional Development Committee for the Canadian League of Composers.

Outside of creating, Geoff plays guitar in electronic/prog metal band Ways in Waves, and is a huge Magic: The Gathering nerd.

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Geoff Li

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