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And the pool was filled with sunlight

Piece commissioned by PIPA Ensemble. Premiered in the National Music Hall in Taipei (Taiwan, September 2023)

And the pool was filled with sunlight

Commissioned by PIPA Ensemble in 2023, this piece for five pipas and electronics premiered at the National Music Hall in Taipei in September 2023. Inspired by a poem by T.S. Eliot, the composition reimagines the traditional sounds of the pipa through electronics, weaving two immaterial worlds together. Every sound in the piece originates from the pipa, with the electronics expanding the instrument’s natural resonance and reshaping an ancient tradition.

 

We are always willing to cross the door into a single moment. When magic shows and the ordinary vanishes. Light into liquid, sound into matter.

For a moment we might see, and then the pool is empty.

 

 

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