Vacuum String Quartet
Sheremetev Palace; St. Petersburg, Russia

after Xin Qiji III (2021)--for amplified and prepared string quartet

earth. pillar. sky. (2021)--for amplified and prepared guqin

Jaume Darbra Fa, bass flute
Haotian Yu, live-electronics
Recorded at SELMA, HfMDK Frankfurt

asunder (syntagma) (2021, rev. 2022)--revised version--for bass flute and live-electronics

for Cello, Guitar, and Two Percussionists
Jay Campbell, cello
Devin Sherman, guitar
Nick Fox, percussion
Emerson Wahl, percussion

Ritual I (2017)--for cello, guitar, and two percussionists

Setting, in Chinese, of a qin song by the Southern Song Dynasty poet Jiang Kui, for soprano and 14 instrument ensemble. 

Performed by OSSIA New Music at the Eastman School of Music, Feburary 2018. 

Gu Yuan (Lament in an Ancient Mode)

Jiang Kui (translation by the composer)

Amid the dusk,
A hazy mountain mist
Obscures the bank ahead. 
I wish to tie the boat to land: but where?
I cannot overtake departed souls,
Nor can I know the men who’ve yet to come... 
Alone I dream of ancient times. 

What footing can be had in matters of this world?
A single hand can turn the clouds and rain...
In distant Golden Valley fell a flower:
Lü Zhu now lies amid the dust. 
We mourn for her misfortuned life:
But who can bring her justice?
Can spring be gone, like this, for good?
...A maiden servant grieves amid the twilight dusk;
Her hair is turning white. 

This life is short of joys: sorrows have no end. 
My zither’s strings about to break from bitter sounds,
A mountain vista stands before my eyes;
Tears stain my feet. 
Sire, do you not see: year by year,
Upon the waters of the Fen, only autumn
Geese fly by.

ancient lament (古怨) (2017-18)--for soprano and ensemble

fragments after
[Variations on the Goldberg Aria - Kaiserling dreams of ancient creation(s)]
for piano solo
performed by the composer

fragments after (2018)--for piano solo

for oboe and ensemble

sol. Abigail Hawthorne, cond. Edo Frenkel; Eastman student ensemble.

Ritual II (2018-19)--for oboe and ensemble

for shakuhachi, sheng, cello, guqin, guzheng, percussion, piano
(live recording; performed by the AIR contemporary music collective)

sudden sculptures of the wind (2019)--for ensemble

written for and performed by the Rolston String Quartet (reupload / 2019 remastering)

after Xin Qiji I (2018)--for string quartet (remaster)

for clarinet solo, cello, piano, and percussion

Daniel Brottman, conductor
Meng Zhang, clarinet
Joëlla Becker, cello
I-Hsiang Chao, piano
Liam McManus, percussion

Haotian Yu

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