Solo
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Year 2017
Piano solo, ca. 11 min
Premiere: Tin Yi Chelsea Wong (piano)
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A solo piano work conceived as an emotional detox during a period of political turbulence. The composer sought to create a piece emotionally detached from personal involvement, though acknowledges this goal was only partially achieved. The work analyzes the harmonic series founded on D, examining sonant and unsonant positions and consonances. It invokes natural live-played echoes to explore acoustic principles. Folk gestures in the motives contribute wild and frantic character. Two climaxes emerge: a theoretical, analysis-based one in the middle section using interval ratios and glissandi with phased echoes; and a motif-based climax that precedes the analytical section.