COMPOSING

“The fascinating thing about sound is that it can destroy silence — but at the same time sound can also create silence.

SILENCE can be incredibly loud and SOUND can be incredibly quiet. “

 

ORCHESTRA →

paths in the sky

for 5 orchestra groups (2023)

Premiered in the Philharmonie Berlin in 2023

 

“Through sound I want to make TIME perceivable.

For when we perceive time, when we are fully immersed in sound, time paradoxically dissolves into TIMELESSNESS.”

 
 

ENSEMBLE →

eight layers of solitude.

for ensemble (2021)

 
 

CHOIR →

i am as i am not.

For 24 singers and 24 loudspeakers. Based on a fragment by Heraclitus. (2021)

 
 

like white fruits of a time tree

for string quartet and tape (2023)

 

"One will not be able to hear the numbers in the score, just as one cannot hear an isolated interval without tones. But without the immateriality of numbers, without the emptiness of form, without time, one could not perceive the free flow of music."

 

OPERA →

in praise of the shadow.

an opera in japanese (2017)

 

“It’s not about what sounds you hear but how.

Everything between a single note to white noise can potentially be used as sound. My task to explore and share this endless continuum of colors like a mountain guide on a pathless slope.”

 

golden tree

for 13 singers and electronics (2020)

 
 

SOLO →

the last letter of yasushi inoue.

for organ solo (2017)