Light Leak II. by light, by shadow (2025) by Camila Agosto

World premiere performed by The Rhythm Method at Fridman Gallery on March 1, 2025 in NYC. 

Light Leak II. by light, by shadow

This is a string quartet of the well-known Canon In D by Pachelbel. Hope you enjoy!! :DD

Pachelbel's Canon In D | String Quartet

VJS 062 "Perilous Pursuit" String Quartet Composition

無調演奏曲 《ワルツの崩壊》

無調演奏曲《狂気の先へ》 第2楽章

The Twelve —— For String Quartet

Commissioned by Obsessions String Quartet with the assistance of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts and the Edmonton Arts Council. Premiered by Obsessions String Quartet and Sarah Ho on piano.

Honorable Mention in SOCAN Foundation’s 2021 Awards for Young Composers.

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Being an immigrant has always been a big part of my identity, whether I liked it or not. It was only in recent years that I started to feel connected again to my heritage and began to engage with it. I appreciated being a part of something bigger—a history, culture, people—but with that includes a concern about their present-day issues and about where their countries are headed. I took this piece as an opportunity to further explore my Korean and Chinese heritage by studying (mostly) traditional forms of music found in those countries, and as an opportunity to read up and reflect on issues that compel their people to leave their homes.

The first movement is a nocturne partially inspired by Tibetan folk music and their often-free-spirited style of heterophony. The second movement borrows sounds from Chinese opera (mostly Peking opera), and loosely depicts a cheeky and rebellious opera group in Beijing putting on a show about the worsening abuse of human rights by the government, dedicated to the 1 million+ Uyghur Muslims in the province of Xinjiang currently detained in concentration camps.

The third movement was inspired by K-pop—how such a vibrant and enjoyable art form is confoundingly corporate, and the industry’s notorious mistreatment of their idols, reflective of South Korea’s militant work culture. (The problem of enjoying things made at the expense of workers’ well-being certainly is not unique to the K-pop industry, or to Korea, though, but rather pervades everywhere.)

The fourth movement draws inspiration from sanjo, a traditional form of Korean music involving an instrumental soloist and a percussion accompanist. Han is a concept of emotions described as a combination of grief and resentment, among others, coupled with a hint of hope or will to survive. The term emerged in Korea from its tumultuous modern history of oppression beginning from the Japanese colonization era, and pervades much of Korean art. Given the issues at hand today, most notably climate change, which disproportionately affects more vulnerable communities and nations and threatens to displace hundreds of millions of people, it seems like Han will be relevant to a far vaster population in the decades to come.

A New Era of Immigrant Stories (2020) for Piano Quintet - IV. Han (Mock-Up)

A New Era of Immigrant Stories (2020) for Piano Quintet - II. Years of Scarlet (Mock-Up)

String Quartet with live electronics and fixed media. Performed in Warsaw on Jan. 19th 2025.

silence unleashed

sketch (1109) for string quartet

polish composer born in 1994 in Ełk. He has learned to play violin and piano since his early childhood. In 2013-2018 he studied Film Studies and Media Culture at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland. In 2022 he has completed Postgraduate Studies of Composition in the class of Rafał Janiak at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw. His musical interests cover mainly symphonic music. Currently, he has been working on his debut album consisting of chamber pieces.

Geoff Li is a composer and sound designer for media and the concert hall. He is part of the music production team Madcap Labs, with whom he scores the Pokémon TV series. Unapologetic in his love of various styles and aesthetics, his music blends together elements of Western classical, progressive metal, jazz, electronic, early 2000s video game music, and his Korean-Chinese heritage.

Geoff has been commissioned by the Chamber Orchestra of Edmonton, Obsessions Quartet, and the C’mon Festival (Chamber Music Old & New); and his music has been played by the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra, and Yardbird Suite Jazz Orchestra. He is currently working with indie game developer Aerobox Games on their upcoming title Rogue Racer. From 2021-2023, he served on council and, later, as head of the Professional Development Committee for the Canadian League of Composers.

Camila Agosto is a composer, interdisciplinary artist, and educator whose electroacoustic music examines how
we perceive sound and vibration, exploring their physiological, mental, and emotional impacts. In her work, Camila collaborates with
musicians, visual artists, choreographers, and instrument builders, seeking to uncover intersections across artistic fields. Her work
includes both fully notated and improvisational compositions emphasizing timbral and textural exploration. She aims to reveal the
sonic potentialities of acoustic instruments while highlighting the human element in live performance. Her projects encompass
acoustic and electroacoustic concert works, interdisciplinary collaborations with visual media and dance, installations, and fixed media
creations.

Camila was honored to be the youngest fellow to be accepted to the American Academy in Berlin and is a recipient of the Fall 2023 Berlin Prize and Deutsche Bank Fellowship in Music Composition from the Academy. Her music has been commissioned and performed by leading artists and featured by venues throughout the United States and abroad. Camila is currently an ABD doctoral candidate at Columbia University in Music Composition.

Hello :) I am mostly a Flat.io user and I make all my music there. I am 15 and music is my life. literally.

Finnish composer, producer, writer and visual artist, focused mainly to algorithmic processes, computer-assisted composition, and various other methods based on cybernetics, chaotic dynamics and stochastic systems, among others. Most programs written by author, various languages. 

Studied musicology at University of Helsinki, computing at OU, Milton Keynes, private studies in composition. Musical genres, from avant-garde/postminimal chamber music to minimal techno, wonky/noskool, IDM, electronica, ambient, experimental. 

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