Andy R arrives earlier in the mornin and goes to sleep on the spring floor man

Making Port X RANN2CIO

Composed for solo clarinet (A), this sonatina is in three movements.

The first movement is an introduction bearing a semblance to a now-shelved sonatina for flute. The piece is balancing act between flowing melodic lines and broken intensity.

The second movement was composed first, in 2022, as a standalone piece. It was revised, and it serves as the coalescence of material of the whole set.

The final movement is dance-like bacchanale, or more so a dithyramb. It was conceived of as a
satyr play, and it is a lively piece that also bears a likeness to a different, shelved work for violin
and piano.

Clarinet Sonatina No. 2 - II. Fantasia

Clarinet Sonatina No. 2 - I. Introduction

Clarinet Sonatina No. 2 - III. Dithyramb

Thank you for the commission by K622 Clarinet Ensemble and HKADC for this clarinet quartet!
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Premiere of this piece:
Sheung Wan Civic Centre Lecture Hall (5/F), Hong Kong
2025-04-12, 3:00 p.m.
Composed by SHIU Wai Yau
My website: https://williamshiu.com/

通常一個人瘋了，並不會說自己瘋了；一個人醉了，只會說「我無醉！」。那若一個人對自己、別人、世界說：「無未來架啦！」……
未來是一個尚未出現的空間與時間，如果這個有無限可能的空間也失去了……
沒有人能決定你的未來，除了你自己。
樂曲為開放曲式作品，整首歌曲加入了劇場元素，樂手需要在台上/場地走動。單簧管樂手以另類方式組裝和吹奏樂器，不會出現常見單簧管的聲音。樂曲以粵語發音「無未來㗎啦」為中心伸延，當中穿插各種奇特的音色。整首樂曲講求音色的漸變，到最後樂曲會變得瘋狂，表達出那種連想像未來也不可能的絕望及情緒。

A maniac will rarely admit to being mad. A drunk person might say, “I haven’t been drinking!” But what does it mean when someone says, “There will be no future”?
The future is a space and time that has not yet occurred. If this limitless space were to vanish...
No one can determine your future except yourself.
The work was composed as an open-form piece with theatrical elements. The performers are required to act on stage and reconstruct their instruments in unusual ways to create interesting sounds. The main motif of this piece is the pronunciation of a Cantonese sentence: "無[mou4]未[mei6]來[loi4]㗎[ga3]啦[la1]" (There will be no future). The piece develops from this idea, exploring various fantastic timbres. Ultimately, the sound becomes chaotic, representing the hopelessness and emotions that arise from an inability to imagine the future.

無未來㗎啦 There will be no future!

Composed in 2024, this piece is for solo vocal and piano accompaniment. The lyrics are from a poem; "The Secret Place", by Denis Lee (1991), that expresses a child's inner mental sanctuary. Note: the vocal line is represented by the clarinet. No singer as yet          : (

The Secret Place

Dizzy Hora is my playful take on the traditional hora — a wild, joyful ride through Balkan rhythms, bold brass, and swirling energy. It’s music made for dancing, laughing, and maybe getting a little dizzy in the best way. Hope it gets you on your feet 💃🥁🎺

Dizzy Hora

Classical Harmony

An original composition containing innovative uses of modern-day audio processing and creative sound design. Developed in reflection of certain Eastern Spiritual Traditions in reverence to their unique ways of life. This is an unsigned demo.

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Which is Which is for clarinet and 2-channel fixed audio with a duration of ten minutes. The title refers to a moment in Shakespeare’s Macbeth" when the king and queen are clearly out of touch with reality. The fixed audio makes extensive use of the spoken line “Stones have been known to move and trees to speak.” The work explores the edges of perception and between musical sound and noise through the use of granular synthesis. 

This is the world premiere performance by Ford Fourqurean, clarinet at the 2025 edition of the New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival at the Sheen Center in Manhattan.

Which is Which

Grateful for where I am and what I have. Multi-instrumentalist 🎶

kinda under construction atm, music hopefully coming soon!

🎙️ Alma Raye | flamenco soul meets ambient skies 🌙

I blend Spanish folk, electronic textures, and global rhythms into soundscapes that wander between memory and imagination.
Each track is a story — sometimes sung, sometimes whispered, always felt.

🎧 Music without borders.

What is my music? To compose music that is as wonderful as the first works of music I ever heard. I’m trying to create an experience that I call the “musical experience.”  Part of the creation of that effect is making something unexpected happen. It’s a combination of using sounds you think you understand, to create a result you know you don’t understand. I want to compose music that puts me in the position of innocence and recreate the feeling of innocence. Simply, I compose music I want to listen to.

A Hong Kong-born composer, performer, arranger & conductor
Artistic Director of [The Maniacs] in Hong Kong

Graduated from Hong Kong Baptist University and KASK & Conservatorium, Gent, Belgium

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