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Music

Shuyo Nella

Shuyo Nella is a symphony about familiar relationships. The piece has four themes: ancestral, maternal, paternal, and child. This is my master's degree thesis and it is a dedication to my parents.
Score / Thesis Paper

Lebenslauf

Lebenslauf is a piece about how life defines us. Everything happens to us shapes us to become who we are today. If one experience in our past was different, we could've be someone completely different.

Score / Audio

Le Tournesol

Le Tournesol is a string quartet. It's harmonic, formal, and melodic materials were derived from the Fibonacci Series. Each movement symbolizes a part of a sunflower.

Score

Des Glückes Stummes Schweigen

This piece is a tribute to Richard Strauss and was inspired by his work "Morgen". It was performed by Land's End Ensemble.

Score / Audio / Concert Program

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La Vita

La Vita is a graphic score, originally composed for solo piano. It also has been performed by other instruments.

Live Performance

La Pagliaccio

La Pagliaccio is a graphic score, originally composed for solo piano. However, it was also performed as a piano-flute duo.

Live Performance

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Underwater

Underwater is an electro-acoustic piece. It has a quotation of one of my earlier piece "Break".

Audio

Carnival

Carnival is an electro-acoustic piece that was inspired by my friends during a hiking trip.

Audio

Einen Lachanfall Haben

It is an electro-acoustic piece. The order samples and the way of sound manipulation were chosen with two dice.

Audio

The Silhouette of Pressure

This piece is about the pressure we face in our day to day lives. It was composed during the first year of COVID-19 outbreak, when the world changed and people had to adapt to a "new normal". It is also my undergraduate senior project.

Score / Audio of Movement 1 / Audio of Movement 2

Pont de la Concorde

This piece is a tribute to Claude Debussy, and was inspired by his piece "Nuages".

Score / Audio / Live Performance

Around

This piece is based on morse code. The rhythmical and melodic lines were constructed with the help of it.

Score / Audio

Revolve

Revolve was composed for a wind quintet.

Score / Audio

Break

Break is a spectral piece. The focus is on each instrument and the "noises" they can make.

Score / Audio

Alchemist Variations

Alchemist Variations was composed for solo piano. The theme has two sections to create a contrast of high and low pitches.

Score / Audio

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