This orchestral piece Image of Time was the call-for-scores winner of “Tune in to Taiwan 2002 – Taiwan Composers Series” held by National Chiang Kai Shek Cultural Center and Asian Composers' League in Taiwan.
Title: Image of Time (for Orchestra ) 《時間印象》
Duration: ca. 15 min.
Date: finished on June 2001
Program Note:
Life expectancy for men is limited and no one can really have the whole control over time and over one's life. However, our perception about time is never limited by the physical time or clock time. When we are listening to music, what we feel about time is quiet different from the temporal experiences of our daily routines. Drawing on the techniques used in literature and movies such as montage, flashback, etc., also inspired by Kramer's ideas about time in music (vertical time, gestural time, moment time, etc.), I tried to compose a piece that can possibly change some specified listeners' perception about time by special formal design, intended control of repetitions, quotations, etc..
This piece was selected to be presented by National Symphony Orchestra of Taiwan in "Tune in to Taiwan 2002 - Taiwan Composers Series" in National Concert Hall in Taiwan in November of 2002.
Title: Dancing Leaves of Autumn (duet for soprano sax and piano) 《秋夜之舞》
Date: finished on December 10, 2003
Duration: ca. 5 min 35 sec
Excerpt
Program Note:
This piece is intended to depict the falling leaves of the trees which dance with the wind in fall on my campus, University of North Texas. It is divided into four sections, Andante comodo, Adagio sereno, Moderato appassionato, and Andante nostalgico. These sections depict different gestures suggested by leaves picking up and dropping with the wind. The movement ends with a diminuendo passage of sax improvisation which is intended to represent the way “dancers” of leaves gradually dance away while only the illusion of the rustle from their dance steps is left behind for the audience, just like a pleasant moment in life that passes so soon but exists forever in memory.
