浮沤 fu'ou (2016)

Liu Haoran 刘浩然, piano

January 2020
Plathnerstraße Kammermusiksaal, Hannover, DE

浮沤 (2016)

for solo shō

Recording by Remi Miura
September 2021, Tokyo

Sifting, surface, silence (2021)

Liu Yinghao, bass-baritone/cardboard boxes
Anna-Katharina Schau, accordion
Anne Serger, prepared harp/cardboard box
Chen Jun, prepared piano/cardboard box
Du Yuxuan, conductor

Text (Chaozhou dialect) from “Lotus” by Ruan Xuefang
Documentation by neuMERZ

May 2021, Hannover

荷 Ó (2021)

Recorded by Trio Abstrakt at LOFT Köln, November 2021

Salim Javaid, baritone saxophone
Marlies Debacker, prepared piano
Shiau-Shiuan Hung, prepared glockenspiel

Stefan Deistler, recording engineer

Auftragswerk im Rahmen des Förderprogramms InSzene des Deutschen Musikrates für das Ensemble Trio Abstrakt im Rahmen des Projekts nMTV

Third existence (2021)

The space in between (2020) 
für zwei Beiguan Musikerinnen und Elektronik 

Texte: Autumn Tsai
Musikerinnen: Liu Yu-Hsiu, He Yi-Jen
Tonmeister: Philipp Henkel
Aufnahme: Emanuelle Grossi

The space in between (2020)

for alto flute, Eb clarinet, soprano saxophone, violin, viola, cello, prepared percussion, and electronics

Spółdzielnia Muzyczna Contemporary Ensemble

September 6, 2022
Teatr KTO, Kraków, PL

Hajir (2022)

Excerpt: Anamu alla al'hajiri al'natayi (2022)
Live recording from Festival de Royaumont 2022

Johanna Vargas, soprano
Susana Santos Silva, trumpet/conch
Anne-Claire Baconnais, soprano
ICTUS Ensemble


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  Ah Malak alzumarud,   
  I feel like this pillow is made of rock... and the mattress as well
  of jagged rock…
  Look, at the moonlight, it’s like a dagger piercing through the table leg,
  It’s boring… 
  like the silence of the night, when the chill of alienation envelops you.
  I wonder...
  If I were in my room now, what would I do?
  Would I make coffee, or finish what I've been reading...
  Hey, Malak...
  Things are turning into stone...
  Even the air in this room
  I can feel it...
  Do you hear me?
  Hey, Malak...
  My voice whispers out
  whispers
  whispers
  ...
  He fades into the silence,
  Disappearing, as usual… leaving me in distress
  I stay in the waves of darkness… 
  listening to jazz
  I remember the news, full of the dead...
  and hear the cries of wounded children...
  Dust rises through the air
  In Ghouta, where there are hospitals and buildings that
  collapse under blind bombardment
  I wonder…
  lying on this jagged rock...
  What was the fault of the people?
  And what was the fault of… 
  Coming down, through the roof...
  — Malak alzumarud, I mean, interrupts my thoughts
  Then he squats under the - quite ordinary - table
  The moonlight, piercing like a dagger, glows green
  The room is stained...
  He places his index finger on his green lips
  and beckons in the silence.
  I hear a plane outside,
  bombing,
  screaming in the street
  I turn up the volume of the music...
  And like a thousand other eyelids,
  I fall asleep on a jagged rock

February 2018, Tikrit, Nadeem Al-Aloosi
March 2022, Dresden, Translation by Rachel C. Walker and Nadeem Al-Aloosi

Excerpt: Anamu alla al'hajiri al'natayi (2022)

For solo pipa (琵琶). Written for and performed by Xia YuYan 夏雨言.


For Summer Rain (2015)

Xia YuYan, Pipa; Ng Jia Wei, Yangqin; Jason Pockrus, Saxophone

Poem by Kendall A.

May 28, 2016 - Beijing


I touched the ground while floating away (2015)

Becca Finkelshteyn, soprano & Peter Phelan, cello

Text by Kendall A.

February 2016 - Cincinnati, Ohio

Reverberations (2015)

For solo pipa (琵琶弹唱). Written for and performed by Xia YuYan 夏雨言. March 2018.

空 (2018)

the impression remains (2017)
for traditional sheng, toy piano, yangqin

Li Yi Fan, sheng
Rachel C. Walker, toy piano
Zhu Jiang Yang, yangqin
Alexander Colding Smith, conductor

June 28, 2018, Beijing

the impression remains (2017)

夏雨言，南琶弹唱 | Xia Yuyan, nanpa/voice
张永韵，铃鼓、朗诵 | Zhang Yongyun, percussion/voice
蔡昀庭，歌词《相思》| Text by Autumn Tsai

September 2019, Beijing

Ebb and flow (2019)

Rachel C. Walker writes poetic, timbre-sensitive works drawing from her ongoing immersion in and research on Chinese folk music, musical time, and language.

Rachel C. Walker

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