February 2025

✨ FACELESS (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Available on all streaming platforms :)
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This soundtrack includes three short tracks which served as the score for the upcoming film by the same name, 'Faceless' written & directed by the wonderful Assel Akhmetova. It will premiere at the Reel Asian Film Festival on November 16th, 2024.

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Faceless (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

I Am Not Them

Thoughts on a Still Night 靜夜思 is one of the most popular Chinese poems by the beloved Chinese poet 李白 (Li Bai, 701-762AD) of the Tang Dynasty. Like many others, I was taught to recite the poem at a very young age. Setting this beauty poetry to music naturally became my first goal when I started to compose many years ago. The piece itself is romantic and sentimental in style. The choral setting is lyrical and non melismatic. The vocal line stresses on the natural rhyme of the words such that it echos the simplicity and hyperbolic language of the poem. The piano accompaniment is impressionistic and at times elaborate. It serves as both the harmonic pillar and the backdrop that highlights the imaginative scenario of the poem. The theme depicts the wandering feeling of the poet at his time; in a contemporary sense, the music conveys certain nostalgia for those who travel and settle abroad.
A beautiful performance by the Exultate Chamber Singers "SONGS NEW AND OLD October 25th 2024.

Thoughts on a Still Night 靜夜思 (SATB choir) - Alice Ping Yee Ho

Obscura is an evocative collection of atmospheric soundscapes that showcases a unique blend of orchestral and contemporary elements. Drawing inspiration from a wide range of textures, the project incorporates lush strings, delicate piano, rich woodwinds, and subtle synthetic layers. With a focus on exploring the balance between minimalism and a full, immersive sound, Obscura offers a glimpse into a larger body of work set to be developed in the coming year. The project invites listeners into a world of cinematic depth and emotional resonance.

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Penumbra


Kerata for Straton for 19-Division Trumpet by Coreen Morsink 
This live home studio recording predates a planned World Premiere and future professional studio recording. 

' 'Kerata for Straton' depicts a day in the life of Straton, a fictional salpinx (trumpet) player at the time of the Trojan War. Although Straton is a made up character, he is based on the fact that music was a part of life in ancient Greece and the trumpet,
or rather the salpinx at the time, was used as an instrument for armies during the Trojan War as written in Homer's Iliad. References to music making are not frequent in the Iliad but even Achilles, when not fighting, sits with his friend Patroclus and plays the phorminx. In this made up story, all Straton, wanted in life was to enjoy playing the trumpet and to play instruments like the phorminx, kitharis, lyra and other instruments at happy events but he was forced to play salpinx commands in the army. Generally of good humour, Straton carries on after witnessing the horrific carnage of war
as well hearing of the sorrow of Achilles upon receiving the news of Patroclus' death. From this experience, Straton decides to become a bard and relay the sadness of the war through song and the playing of the kitharis and lyra.
Note about the title: Kerata means 'horns' in Greek and animal horns were used in ancient Greece as musical instruments (and thus the word). Straton was a boy's name in ancient Greece and is related to the word 'stratos' στράτος which means army.' (C.M.)
Quotes
"...what satisfaction can I get from that, now that my closest friend is dead, Patroclus, who was more to me than any other of my men, whom I loved as much as my own life?" Iliad by Homer-XVIII.65
"Clear as the trumpet's voice when it soundeth aloud beneath the press of murderous foeman" Iliad by Homer- XVIII.219

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Kerata for Straton for 19-Division Trumpet (2024) by Coreen Morsink

Performed live by Black Box Ensemble, November 23 2024 at Church of St. Luke and St. Matthew, NYC.
Tyler Neidermayer, Recording and mixing engineer

Leonard Bopp, conductor
Annie Nikunen, flute
Tyler Neidermayer, bass clarinet
Lauren Conroy, violin
Jordan Bartow, cello
Yifei Xu, keyboard
J Clancy, pecussion

Originally commissioned by Ensemble Paramirabo. 

ABOUT
“Stygian pulse” (2023) refers to a chronic throbbing pain in my left shoulder and neck that I have been experiencing for over ten years. It is shapeshifting in its colour and intensity and even its sonic properties, but most days it is an inky, dark, and dull recurrence. The normal medical routes for pain relief have proven ineffective beyond a temporary period.

While the pain doesn’t majorly inhibit any of my daily activities, my inability to alleviate it has
created a sort of “settling:” the pain has become mundane, foreverhere – unpredictable in its exact rhythm or temperament, but with a certitude that it will return, beating darkly. As a feature of my body for over a third of my time on Earth, I’m quite sure it’s here until the end. My stygian pulse – tiny focused outbursts until I die.

Stygian Pulse (sextet + electronics)

Mecca Illuminations

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