Concrete Music 
My first electronic piece.-- Zihan Wu

As I Foreseen the Spring (2021)--for fixed media

I know why the caged bird sings-Stereo Mix

No Answer (2025) for Symphony Orchestra

Stuff #2 (2025)

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V. Twilight

Commissioned by Yuseok Seol
Performed by Haeun Jung

Suite (2025) for piano

In response to Linda Cichan's 'Escaping Continuum.'

II. Escaping Continuum

Bagliori (2025), for prepared vibraphone

Premiered on 18.05 at Studiottantuno, Mantua 
Performance of this recording on 28.05 at Mantova Musica del XXI Secolo 
Performer: Roberto Enea Varalta (Percussion) 
Recorded by Lorenzo Arioli
Technical support and 3D print preparations: Fabio Machiavelli



“Bagliori” is a piece that reflects on brightness, transparency and shine. Sudden explosions of light find a musical correspondence in the sounds produced by metallic and high-pitched instruments, which create bright and shining sonorities. This exploration comes from the urgency to express musically a visual and sensorial world that I absorbed from the places where I grew up - in South Italy - made of rural and bare landscapes, bright, raw and essential.
In doing this musical research, I prepared the instrument, thanks to the help of composer and researcher Fabio Machiavelli, by incorporating supports for microtonal wah-wah tubes into the structure of the vibraphone itself and giving the performer the use of a mouth harmonica and some bells, which enrich the timbral palette.

Bagliori (2025), for prepared vibraphone

Zihan Wu composer and concert pianist from China, based in U.S. www.zihanwumusic.com

As I Foreseen the Spring (2021)--for fixed media

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