Academy of Music and Drama Chamber Choir, University of Gothenburg

A choral piece based on the nine tones of the Cantonese language, an imagination of the disappearing process of the language.

Such Are the Fading Sounds for 9 Voices

The world expects nothing less from her than for her  to literally sing herself to death.  No matter how much of a thankless job she understands it to be, she looks forward to a transcended self for console.  

Ritual of the Siren combines the two ethnic instruments of overtone singing and the dholak drum to depict a ritual. It explores the capabilities to play  harmonics on both instruments.

Ritual Of The Siren [響式] for Overtone Singing and Dholak Drum

Harp: Stina Hellberg Agback

You can try and push homesickness down, but like waves at a beach it will just come round and round, until you are back at the beginning to find that it is changed from what it was and always has been.

This piece is a depiction of that unyielding nature of homesickness, as well as an exploration of the extended techniques on the harp to emit colours from a childhood nursery rhyme.

Childhood Scenes Of A Homesick Man for Solo Harp

Viola: Joshua Wat
Piano: Ivan Wong

Humans have created the word “Stability” and have built walls of skyscrapers around themselves, calling the space “Home”. If “Stability” is truly what we seek, then why are we, after all this time, still constantly wandering, wandering, wandering, escaping from something, and looking for the next pasture?

Short Piece for Viola and Piano, "Nomade"

Medley for piano from the soundtracks of award-winning animation "The Station", directed and illustrated by Jocelyn Wat

Piano: Joshua Wat

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The Station Piano Medley

Viola: Joshua Wat

A theatrical and slightly crazy humour piece about a musician struggling to find his/her footing in the artistic world, where the viola soloist plays in a reactionary manner to the fixed recording, no matter how clumsy it gets!

"Fake it till you make it."

Cognitive Disorder for Viola Solo and Fixed Media

Singer: Charlie Chan
Song: Joshua Wat

Lyrics:
You say love is a word that shouldn't be said to each other too often,
You say if it's said too much then it would lose part or all of its meaning.
I don't know how else my words can be laid,
But I guess I'll try to put it this way.

You make me feel spontaneous, feel like taking the next plane to Paris,
Go do the marvelous, curious--
Things that I never would have done.

You make me feel spontaneous, forget about all the tedious,
Put all our things behind, ease our minds,
Spend all our time doing wine and dine. 

Sing on the street:
Oh oh oh oh oh,
Do do ba do ba do do do ba do di do,
Don't care about what they say, how we're seen,
Do as our hearts have always pleased.

Dance on the street:
Bop bop bop bop bop,
Do do ba do ba do do do ba do ba di do,
Don't know what lies ahead, but I don't care,
As long as I have you there with me.

And it's only you, 
That makes me feel like the way that I do.
And it's cause of you,
That I find myself behaving like a fool.

*Whistle*
Don't care about what they say, how we're seen,
Do as our hearts have always pleased.

Dance on the street:
Bop bop bop bop bop,
Do do ba do ba do do do ba do ba di do.
Don't know what lies ahead, but I don't care,
As long as I have you there with me. 

You say love is a word that shouldn't be said to each other too often.
I say whenever there's a chance then you should say it before it's too late.

Spontaneous

Viola I: Joshua Wat
Viola II: Joshua Wat
Viola III: Joshua Wat
Viola IV: Joshua Wat

Too many repetitions and we say we would like to be free as birds Too few repetitions and we say we are in fact men of habits.

Viola Quartet, "Vanity of Repetition"

Percussionist: Censored
Media: Joshua Wat

With elements of Cantonese Opera.


The Men have shot the bird out of the sky; 
“we have made the intangible, tangible,” they laugh nervously; 
but the concept of flight is more than one bird; 
And it will for ever remain out of The Men's reach.

Fuel for Percussion Solo and Mixed Media

Double Bass 1: Jonas Nilsson 
Double Bass 2: Johan Moir

It takes two double basses with sticks stuck between the strings to dance.

Object preparation + Quarter-tone tunings

Dance Form for Double Bass Duo

Composer of mainly contemporary classical music!