Netti Netti for Ensemble and Electronics

Chi-Yen Huang ...towards Bisosilin for Flute, Cello and Piano (2020)

CREATORS Sound Off Up-and-Coming Creators Residency Program composer HUANG Chi-Yen and sound artist CHENG Dao-Yuan have co-created Polymorph, which they perform together to explore the intersection of contemporary music and sound art.

Cello: Chi-Yen Huang
Electronics Sound: Chi-Yen Huang, Dao-Yuan Cheng

Chi-Yen Huang & Dao-Yuan Cheng Polymorphism for Cello and Electronics (Co-Created work)(2022)

Chi-Yen Huang Refraction For Percussion Solo (2022)

Chi-Yen Huang Soham For String Quartet (2020)

Saxophonist: Chun-Hao Ku

Video version:
https://youtu.be/XPwHKnlzADc

Chi-Yen Huang Engram For Saxophone, Electronics, and Video

Recorded during the Luxembourg Rainy Days Festival 2023 and performed by United Instruments of Lucilin at neimënster.
Recorded by Tritone Studios.

...here was one

Saxophonist: Meitar Ensemble, Noa Mick 
At CEME International New Music Festival

The title of the work, ...as he approaches I become not myself... is a fragment from a quotation from Virginia Woolf’s The Waves. Here is the complete quotation below:

“...As he approaches I become not myself but Neville mixed with somebody – with whom? – with Bernard? Yes, it is Bernard, and it is to Bernard that I shall put the question, Who am I?”

Woolf’s novels are famous for their stream-of-consciousness construction and the various ways time passes throughout her non-linear storylines. In The Waves, Virginia Woolf experiments with collective consciousness, at times collapsing multiple voices into one. Their consciousnesses are interwoven and hard to distinguish from each other.

In this work, ...as he approaches I become not myself..., the composer focuses on things that are interwoven and that melt into and out of one another, simultaneously trying to combine different timbres and sounds that depict the process of transitioning from one sound state to another.

...as he approaches I become not myself... for alto saxophone solo

Penelope for Electronics (binaural version optimized for headphones)

Saxophonist: Alexandre Souillart

此曲以吳爾芙在其著作《海浪》中複雜的「創造者與被創造者」關係作為核心，思考真實世界演奏家(薩克斯風)、虛擬電子聲響、 以及劇場素材(影像、現場物件使用)三者之間的關係，必試圖利用立體聲場的技術支撐，形塑更立體的聽覺以及感知體驗。

《海浪》可謂吳爾芙意識流寫作技術的巔峰之作，並以海浪的升起與落下象徵著生命的誕辰與消逝。在《海浪》中，吳爾芙創造了六 位不同的主角，其中最重要的主角伯納德(Bernard)也創造了自己的虛擬世界 Elvedon，字面上隱藏著”elf-eden”意即「小精靈伊甸 園」。在這個伊甸園中有一位持續寫作的女子以及一位園丁，而「伯納德與持續寫作女子」(創造者與被創造者)的關係以及「吳爾芙與伯納德」(創造者與被創造者)的關係形成了相互關聯的隱喻，他們同樣利用寫作使人物有了生命，並都是在幽微的意識世界中 創造著，如此層疊複雜的關係，在吳爾芙開始構思《海浪》的日記中便可以發現。作曲家試圖以這樣的關係以及吳爾芙小說中，敘事 線沈浮於意識流的特色，作為整個作品的靈感與結構。

In this piece, my focus lies more on the intricate layers between the different realms that Virginia Woolf or Bernard have created, rather than solely on the character "Bernard" himself. In Woolf's novel, "The Waves," consciousness flows continuously among the six characters and the real world where Virginia exists, as well as the fictional realm within the novel or within Bernard’s mind. One can perceive a perpetual flux of time and space while reading the novel. This experience forms the central and fundamental theme of this piece. To establish a connection between the "layered" spaces in the novel and this composition, I have designated numerous different spaces within the physical world. This encompasses not only how I utilize light beams but also how the spatialization of sound operates within this piece.

Bernard's Solitary (binaural version optimized for headphones)

Talea Ensemble - James Baker, conductor
SUNY Buffalo, Department of Music
March 14, 2025
UB - Slee Hall

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...as he approaches I become not myself..., for saxophone solo

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