Name: Monk (2014) by 張玹 Shiuan Chang
Duration: 6 min
Description: For flute, Clarinet (Bass clarinet), cello, and piano Conductor: Peter Eotvos Performer: Alter Ego Premiered in Bartok Festival, Hungary 2015 Earplay Donald Aird prize . . . This piece is about balance, meditation, and the flow of “Qi” Inspired by the legendary Chinese martial art “T’ai Chi” . . .

My interest in constructing sound elements by imitating the development of hieroglyph, oracle bone script, and pictophonetic characters in the ancient Chinese etymology. The newly constructed "sound words" become living organisms that move, live, prosper, decay, and die.

"Drifting Moon," written for Grafenegg Festival Ink Still Wet and the Tonkunstler Orchestra is no exception to this aesthetic research path. All the sounds are constructed attribute to the movement and the sound of riding traditional Chinese flatboat on the river. And these sound materials tell a story: "If Dharma is the boat we ride on to pass the river of life, we won't need it when we get ashore. Though before we might have a chance to get ashore, we see the moon drifting with the wrecked ships, centuries after centuries."




Conductor: Myself

Drifting Moon 月湧 (2021)

Sunghyun Lee - Suite Geometrica for 16 Players : Whole Movements (2022)

I. Zigzag Toccata
II. Distorted Arabesques
III. Kinematic Sonata

Sunghyun Lee (B.1995)

Composer : Sunghyun Lee

Conductor : Clement Power

Performed by Ensemble TIMF

Commissioned by Tongyeong International Music Festival 2022

Suite Geometrica for 16 Players : Whole Movements (2022)

SUNSOAKED
for trumpet, tuba, violin, violoncello and electronics | 2022

Written for and performed by Ensemble MusikFabrik
Live recording, April 8, 2022
Recorded by Seth Torres
Mix and Mastering by Murat Çolak
Artwork by Nazlı Cengiz

SUNSOAKED (2022) / Ensemble MusikFabrik

Dedicated to Luca Ieracitano

"Incanto XXII" (2019-2020)

I-Ricercare
II-Fantasia
III-Corale

Luca Ieracitano, piano

Recorded by Stefano Amerio at Artesuono Recording Studio (Cavalicco, UD - 17/07/2023)

Simone Movio, "Incanto XXII" (2019-2020)

Premiere on July 7. 2023, KunstKulturKirche Frankfurt
IEMA-Ensemble / Conductor: Xizi Wang

fl./cl./tpt./vla./vlc./db./perc./org.

Clouds (2023) - IEMA Ensemble 2022/23

For flute, Clarinet (Bass clarinet), cello, and piano
Conductor: Peter Eotvos
Performer: Alter Ego
Premiered in Bartok Festival, Hungary
2015 Earplay Donald Aird prize
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This piece is about balance, meditation, and the flow of “Qi”
                Inspired by the legendary Chinese martial art “T’ai Chi”
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Monk (2014)

Bian Zhou 扁舟
Written for 1st edition Universite d'Altitute. 
Performed by Ensemble Multilaterale
Conductor: Léo Warynski
Cello: Pablo Tognan
Harp: Aurélie Saraf
Bass Clarinet: Alain Billard
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『I commented, “Do you happen to know the nature of water or the moon? Water is always on the run like this but never lost in its course; the moon always waxes and wanes but never out of its sphere. When viewed from a changing perspective, nothing in this universe can remain unchanged even within a blink of an eye, but when looked at from an unchanging viewpoint, everything conserves itself, and so do we. Therefore, what’s in them to be admired? Besides, in this universe, everything has its rightful owner. If something does not belong to you, you shall not even have a bit of it. However, the fresh breeze over this river and the bright moon above the mountains are exceptions. If you can hear it, it is a sound to you; if you can see it, it is a view. It never ends and is never exhausted. It is the infinite treasure that nature has for us to enjoy. 』 - Qian Chibifu, Su Shi

扁舟 Bian Zhou (2016)

Bryan Eubanks and Xavier Lopez, synthesis
first 16 minutes of an hour long piece
performance recording from November 2019 at Petersburg Artspace, Berlin

wave forming (astrum) excerpt

Gentle Dreaming (2020)

https://www.stefanogervasoni.net/index.asp?page=catalogue&id=129

for: large ensemble
detailed instrumentation: flute (also G-flute), oboe (also English horn), clarinet in B flat (also bass clarinet), bassoon (also contrabassoon), horn in F, trumpet in B flat (also piccolo trumpet in B flat), trombone, percussion I, percussion II, harp, piano (also celesta - five octaves), violin I, violin II, viola, violoncello, double-bass (five strings)
duration: 21'
commission: Ensemble InterContemporain
first performance: 4.9.20, Paris, La Scala, Ensemble InterContemporain, Matthias Pintscher (conductor)
publisher: Edizioni Suvini Zerboni
catalogue number: S. 16215 Z.

Eufaunique - 1st and 2nd part - Ensemble InterContemporain, M. Pintscher -  live. Paris 3.9.20

Composer from Taiwan, now based in New York City

Monk (2014)

張玹 Shiuan Chang

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