It's a violin solo piece I wrote in 2013. 
Composer: Xue Ju
Violinist: Ken Deng

Dolente

I wrote this piece in 2015 for clarinet, violin, cello, percussions, and piano. I was inspired by the French movie "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly". The story is based on Jean-Dominique Bauby's book. 

Composer: Xue Ju

Justin Weiss, Conductor
Yongchuan Chen, Clarinet
Jiaqi Yu, Violin
Hannah A Kim, Cello
Ziyao Huang, Piano
Eli Geruschat, Rachel Gibson, Percussions

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

My first electronic piece. 
Enjoy the interstellar travel.

Orbiting

It's the recording of CME(Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble)concert presented on March 2, 2018.

Program Notes:
by Xue Ju

I was inspired by the poem Invocation – Blessing the Boat written by Robin Coste Lewis, which is a narrative poem consisting of fragmented words to visualize exhibitions of Western art objects.

As a museumgoer, what I find most intriguing in this poem is that Lewis uses words of different museum objects and subtly connects them. The mashing together of series of seemingly irrelevant words and concepts shows some special creative association among art objects throughout history. 

In my piece, the sound that emits every time inspires a comprehension and a visual emergence of its relative words in the poem. I try to present a reinterpretation of this poem through various music ideas that resonate me. For example, I make an association between a melody from a medieval old Roman chant Offertorium: Terra Tremuit with a sentence in Lewis’ poem, where the Roman chant appears in my mind when I access the old Roman art object as described by Lewis: 

“Alabastron eulogia ampulla.”

Sometimes I use the specific timbre or texture to present an object in the poem, such as the “Fiber beads”, “Coins”, etc.

At the end of my piece, you will hear several instruments and sounds in turns, which is exactly the same as the description in the ending section of the poem.

“Harp
                with Bridge      Harp
                                              Lute

   One-key
     Xylophone
                                              Slit

Gong
              Trumpet       Gong
Gong

 Mallet
  Whistle
 Rattle

 
  Drum”

Concert Reviews: http://clevelandclassical.com/oberlin-contemporary-music-ensemble-at-cleveland-museum-of-art-march-4/

Invocation – BLESSING THE BOAT

FRAGRANCES: Suite for 9 musicians and fixed media comprising seven movements based on seven smells: I. Bamboo and Jasmine, II. Rosemary Mint, III. Japanese Cherry Blossom, IV. Ocean Flowers, V. Spiced Pomegranate, VI. Apple Cinnamon, VII. Nag Champa. 

VII: Nag Champa
Sam Hoffacker, Percussion
Xue Ju, Fixed Media

Fragrances VII: Nag Champa

Suite for 9 musicians and fixed media comprising seven movements based on seven smells: I. Bamboo and Jasmine, II. Rosemary Mint, III. Japanese Cherry Blossom, IV. Ocean Flowers, V. Spiced Pomegranate, VI. Apple Cinnamon, VII. Nag Champa.

FRAGRANCES I : Bamboo Jasmine
Paul Çelebi, Piano
Xue Ju, Fixed Media

Performed & Recorded on April 26, 2018. @ Warner Concert Hall, Oberlin, USA

FRAGRANCES I : Bamboo Jasmine

FRAGRANCES: Suite for 9 musicians and fixed media comprising seven movements based on seven smells: I. Bamboo and Jasmine, II. Rosemary Mint, III. Japanese Cherry Blossom, IV. Ocean Flowers, V. Spiced Pomegranate, VI. Apple Cinnamon, VII. Nag Champa.

FRAGRANCES IV: Ocean Breeze
Xue Ju, Composer
Colin Roshak, Conductor

Aidan Wiley Lippke, Guitar
Kelsey Sham, Harp
Sam Hoffacker, Percussion
Shiqi Yang, Violin I
Hsuan Chen, Violin II
Jane Larson, Viola
Julie Holzen, Cello

Performed & Recorded on April 26, 2018. @ Warner Concert Hall, Oberlin, USA

FRAGRANCES IV: Ocean Breeze

FRAGRANCES: Suite for 9 musicians and fixed media comprising seven movements based on seven smells: I. Bamboo and Jasmine, II. Rosemary Mint, III. Japanese Cherry Blossom, IV. Ocean Flowers, V. Spiced Pomegranate, VI. Apple Cinnamon, VII. Nag Champa.

Xue Ju, Composer
Aidan Wiley Lippke, Guitar

Performed & Recorded on April 26, 2018. @ Warner Concert Hall, Oberlin, USA

FRAGRANCES VI: Apple Cinnamon

Abstraktes Bild (Abstract Painting)(2018) 
for alto flute and fixed media

Hexin Zhang, Alto Flute   
Xue Ju, Fixed Media

Première on April 26, 2018. @ Warner Concert Hall, Oberlin, USA

Abstraktes Bild

FRAGRANCES : Suite for 9 musicians and fixed media comprising seven movements based on seven smells: I. Bamboo and Jasmine, II. Rosemary Mint, III. Japanese Cherry Blossom, IV. Ocean Flowers, V. Spiced Pomegranate, VI. Apple Cinnamon, VII. Nag Champa. 

FRAGRANCES III : Japaness Cherry Blossom
Shiqi Yang, Violin I
Hsuan Chen, Violin II
Jane Larson, Viola
Julie Holzen, Cello

Performed & Recorded on April 26, 2018. @ Warner Concert Hall, Oberlin, USA

FRAGRANCES III: Japaness Cherry Blossom

Experimental Installation by Laura Li
Sound Design by Xue Ju

Experimental Installation: Escape of a Dream  - Soundtrack

A recorded work entirely through MAX Live control. 

The bizarre and highly experimental piece of music combines the recorded piano of Chopin‘s Nocturne op.9 no.2 and a welter of noises and conversations to present the inner calmness and tranquility with disturb or upset from external circumstances. September 2015.

INWARDNESS

Fiona Xue Ju is a composer, improviser, sound designer, and multimedia artist. As a contemporary music composer and producer, she wrote a variety of music for chamber ensembles, film, and multimedia collaborations. Her music has been praised for its “fresh-sounding ideas” and described as “aurally fascinating” (Cleveland Classical).

Fiona Xue Ju

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