Catching The Fireworks' Tail | 捕捉烟花的尾巴 (2021)

...as Water, for piano and live electronics (2021)

Piano: Han Chen
Electronics: Yifan Guo
Reocording: Simon Kanzler

...as Water | 若水 for piano and live electronics (2021)

Dying From The Snow's Memory, for amplified flute and bass clarinet (2021)

Flute: Xiaoyu Lin
Bass clarinet: Vasko Dukovski

Dying From The Snow's Memory, for amplified flute and bass clarinet (2021)

Under_ II
for flute, player piano, and electronics

flute: Xiaoyu Lin

Seeking the essence is a crucial part to me. The “decorations” in the earthy life always cover my eyes, block my ears, and disturb my nose, so that I unconsciously indulge in and struggle with the flowery world. A famous statue in the Heart Sutra that “Form is emptiness, emptiness is form.” Under the gorgeous, debauched, or corrupted “decorations,” there is a hidden essence, which is buried deeply within human consciousness, the order of the world, and the “emptiness.” Like the Buddhist interpretation, emptiness does not only mean nothing or naught, but it is the carrier for everything and the space for the opposite of existing. However, we wouldn’t be noticed the emptiness without those “decorations.” Thus, we have to feel the energy of the emptiness with every single cell when our five senses are covered, and then the essence will seep out.

Under_ II (version for flute, player piano, and electronics; 2020/2023)

“Wanderer in May” for string quartet was commissioned by New Music On The Point and Conservatoire américain de Fontainebleau. The first recording was given by the JACK Quartet in Salisbury Congregational Church, Vermont, USA, on June 12, 2018, and the first performance was given by Ashley Park, Leqing Wang, Yin-Ying Tseng, and Dilshod Narzillaev in Château de Fontainebleau, France, on July 30, 2018


五月的徘徊者，遊移在夢境與現實間......
...Wandering in May, between dream and reality...

Violin I: Yue Qian
Violin II: Ji Soo Choi
Viola: Jiawei Yan
Cello: Issei Herr

Wanderer in May, for string quartet (2018)

flute: Luisa Me i Bressan; clarinet: Emmalie Tello; percussion: Siyoung Lee; trombone : Kalun Leung;
trio I: violin - Chener Yuan; viola - Jiawei Yan; cello - Ezra Escobar;
trio II: violin - Ji Soo Choi; viola - Christian Barros; cello - Zhihong Li;
trio III : violin - Molei Luo; viola - Dan Yao; bass - Elam Friedlander;
trio IV: violin - Yukiko Kuhara; cello - Liao Shang-Wen; bass - Mike Levin;
conductor: Yifan Guo

“來自雲中的五張明信片”靈感來源於宋朝詩人李清照一剪梅中“雲中誰寄錦書來”。 在李清照的詞中，她把雲的另一頭比作思念和愛的人，所以雲中的錦書意為愛人的情書

The title was inspired by a sentence from the poem “I Chien Mei,” “...who sent me an embroidered letters from the clouds?” was written by an ancient Chinese poet Qingzhao Li. In her words, the person who you miss and love is from the other side of the clouds. So “an embroidered letters from the clouds” means a love letter from that lover.

III. Cloud River | 云河

II. The Vestige of Wind | 风的痕迹

I. Sky Song | 天歌

recorded by violinist Liucong Feng on 2020/02/17

The perception of most people is that there is a simple binary distinction between fiction and reality - that something is either real or unreal. This piece you are about to hear is inspired by the idea that this distinction is not so clear. Reality and fiction are interdependent, and beauty can be found in that grey space in between the two. This concept has been found in Chinese classical literature for centuries, and I was particularly inspired by the Qing dynasty novel Dream of the Red Chamber, which explores this idea.
Musically, I use normal pitch vs harmonic pitch, actual rhythm vs beating rhythm, sustained sound vs deadened sound, and other seemingly contrary elements to represent this idea. Besides fiction and reality, beauty plays the role of the ego in the Freudian model of the psyche - the organized, realistic part that mediates between the desires of the id and the super-ego. In this piece the beauty is the music itself, and it is delicate and organized.

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Moon In The Water | 水中月 (violin version) (2019)

recorded by Quatuor Diotima on 2020/07/29 at IYCA at Ticino Musica Festival

https://youtu.be/a8AyLHPkoZ4?t=416

Can I Breathe? (2020)

Under_
for flute and electronics

flute: Xiaoyu Lin

Seeking the essence is a crucial part to me. The “decorations” in the earthy life always cover my eyes, block my ears, and disturb my nose, so that I unconsciously indulge in and struggle with the flowery world. A famous statue in the Heart Sutra that “Form is emptiness, emptiness is form.” Under the gorgeous, debauched, or corrupted “decorations,” there is a hidden essence, which is buried deeply within human consciousness, the order of the world, and the “emptiness.” Like the Buddhist interpretation, emptiness does not only mean nothing or naught, but it is the carrier for everything and the space for the opposite of existing. However, we wouldn’t be noticed the emptiness without those “decorations.” Thus, we have to feel the energy of the emptiness with every single cell when our five senses are covered, and then the essence will seep out.

Under_ for flute and electronics (2020)

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