The Black Leaf In My Mouth, for orchestra (2016)

 A single wave has its own envelope structure (attack, decay, sustain and release); it can open and close, appear and disappear in its own original way. Multiple waves construct an image of the whole ocean sound, by merging together, or at times by pausing with silence.
Inspired by the sound of waves, The Black Leaf in my Mouth is about entities and the entirety of the individuals.
 The piece treats voices individually; the sound of each voice begins out of nothingness, builds up, then dissipates. Therefore, experiencing a total process of presence and absence, the intertwined voices create an entire sound space. Although the entire sound space is made of the individual voices, a single voice cannot change the structure of the whole.

 The title The Black Leaf in my Mouth is from the same name of poem collection by Korean poet Ki, Hyung-Do (1960-1989), which depicts how an individual life exists in a whole society.

The Black Leaf In My Mouth (2016)

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