"After the Aftermath" is a Pierrot ensemble piece composed for the LA-based Brightworks New Music Ensemble. The piece was recorded remotely due to the COVID-19 Pandemic. - June 2021

After The Aftermath

for alto saxophone and French horn
Recorded by Jennifer Blackwell and Brian KM

Naiads Polycephalus is inspired by the mural of the same name created by Lauren YS, depicting two-headed naiads, or water spirits, contained within colorful jars. This piece aims to capture the different perspectives of having these mythical creatures contained and put on display. We start outside of the jars, seeing the creatures in the jars as mysterious and distant on the other side of the glass. The piece slowly transitions into the inside of the jar where we see the beautiful and vibrant pocket worlds that the creatures have created within the jars.

Part of a collection of pieces composed by University of Hawaii at Manoa graduate students depicting various artworks in Honolulu’s Kaka’ako district

March 2022

Naiads Polycephalus

A ukulele album of genre fusion, created with the help of the UCR Undergraduate Mini-Grant and:

Supervising Professors: Dana Kaufman and Paulo Chagas
UCR's Experimental Acoustic Research Studio (EARS):
Ethan Castro (Recording, Mixing, Producing, Moral Support)
Christiaan Clark (Recording and additional moral support)
Jesse Blackburn (Recording)

And Alex Sim for helping make the EP artwork :)
And thank you to everyone who supported the project and have been waiting for me to finally release this!!

Featuring Jason

Slump

"The Labyrinth" is composed for the LA-based Mojave Piano Trio, performed during the University of California Music Department UCR is Composing concert in April 2019.

The Labyrinth

"Kincade Fire" is an electronic composition by Jason Tse for the UCR ARTS and UCR Music photo collaboration. The photo is of the Kincade Fire that burned in Sonoma County, California in October 2019. Photograph taken by Noah Berger

https://virtualucrarts.ucr.edu/2020/05/28/jason-tse/

Facing Fire is an exhibition that explores western wildfires as omen and elemental force, as metaphor and searing personal experience. Fire tends to spread. So, too, does the meaning of fire. Sixteen artists bring us photographs, paintings, drawings, ceramic, and video as they face fire, sift its aftermath, and struggle with the implications. UCR ARTS is collaborating UCR’s Department of Music to present original compositions created by students and faculty around artworks found in the exhibition.

Kincade Fire

"Dangerous Beings" is a piece for piano and violin and is composed of four miniatures. The piece was recorded by the Chicago-based group Room to Spare in June 2020.

Jason C