Name: I mean, my soul was dead the moment I was born, am I right? - vohahanhnhan by almondart__
Duration: 7 min 32 s
Description: With a sense of emptiness, I composed this song in the hospital room. I use the piano to portray my personal fear, the clarinet for expressing my inner kid, and the cello to depict joy. As I age, my inner kid seems to become more fragmented and distorted, causing me to feel less joy and a growing feeling of anxiety.

Composed by Son Mach
Conducted by Son Mach
Performed by TUSO (The United Saigon Orchestra)
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© 2021 Son Mach

TRM: Prologue (Mở màn)

We compose a score for a movie "Pao’s Forest". In this film score, Phuc and I used several non-pitch metallic percussions which are based on a sound sculpture of Marilyn Donadt and bell plates to create all the sounds which you will hear while watching. The reason is that we live in a world which does not value individual voices. Therefore, these metal instruments could produce distorted sounds, allowing us to express the human soul.
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Recorded & Mixed by Nguyen Hong Giang

21+33

tormented forest

tormented forest - phucnguyentohoan x vohahanhnhan

my love mine all mine / ai lana del ray cover

When I initially started learning "minimalism", I wrote this piece of music. The right hand plays the melody written in this style, while the left hand hits notes at random. The combination of "symmetrical" and "asymmetrical" is created from there.

The Naughty Child and the Normal Old Man - vohahanhnhan

With a sense of emptiness, I composed this song in the hospital room. I use the piano to portray my personal fear, the clarinet for expressing my inner kid, and the cello to depict joy. As I age, my inner kid seems to become more fragmented and distorted, causing me to feel less joy and a growing feeling of anxiety.

I mean, my soul was dead the moment I was born, am I right? - vohahanhnhan

Text by Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
Music by Vo HH Nhan

What would it feel like experiencing your own funeral? Everything will be weird and abnormal, I'm sure. In this work, I composed music and lyrics based on the poem "I felt a Funeral in my Brain" by Emily Dickinson, my favourite poet. The music was fragmented at first, reflecting your wrecked soul, before becoming frantic and chaotic as you realised you were dying. Finally, since you realised the truth, it was the concept of reconciliation and peace.

I felt a Funeral in my Brain - phungkhanh x vohahanhnhan

I have studied and worked in the music field for 13 years. During the process of studying music, the thing I care most is about what to write. Being a creator, choosing what to write is more difficult for me than how to write. During the first 9 years, I struggled with musical skills, but the next 4 years, I struggled with my mind to understand what to do with these techniques. One valuable thing I learned from my teacher is that music can be vulgar, brutal, savage, mean, compared to the past when it was believed to be beautiful and soft. The reason for that is because music reflects human thoughts. We are living in an age of technology and steel where the soul is not valued, which leads to souls full of fear and distortion. So music needs to reflect that reality.

I'm still learning about Composition with an open mind to all ideas. I use music to write down my thoughts.

I mean, my soul was dead the moment I was born, am I right? - vohahanhnhan

almondart__

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