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• The Furies: A Laptopera - "Don't Sh Stop Please"

• Phase Change

  for oboe and stereo fixed media (2013)
  written for Katherine Woolsey

  This piece is inspired by the three phases of water: vapor, liquid, and solid. The oboist begins the piece without the reed in place and only the sound of pure air. An atmospheric exploration with timbral trills leads to “condensation,” in which droplets begin to form and eventually give way to a flowing stream. The final section “freezes” the music into a stark, frozen texture which contains static harmonies, glacial multiphonics, and fractured melodic lines like shards of ice. Many melodic motives in the piece come from a three-note pitch set which is inspired by the shape of the water molecule itself.

  Katherine Woolsey, oboe

• Etu{d,b}e: A Preliminary Conduit

  Etu{d,b}e is a series of performances including semi-autonomous musical agents improvising with a live musician performing on the eTube, an augmented instrument using a saxophone mouthpiece and custom controller interface.

• くぼみ — kubomi

  In くぼみ — kubomi, the author uses a singing bowl and a mere décor piece of metal bowl, along with sounds of piano and western flute, to challenge the cultural appropriation and exotic expectations on singing bowls or sang ohm. These metal bowls are commonly associated with Tibetan Buddhism, but seem more tied to meditation as a popular spiritual practice in the U.S. This phenomenon seems to the author an example of an imaginative exoticism based on mixed information that slowly earned a cultural myth that people accepted as a foreign culture.
  

• Chaconne (2020) for Violin

  This performance recovers a nomadic trait in the violin, a common baroque practice before the triumph of classical “works.”