composed

Between the Nights (2021)

for solo cello
5′
score

solo

Music usually happens as a result of negotiations between musicians, audiences, and sound. I find such negotiations more difficult when I write contemporary classical music, as I so often a=empt to reinvent the wheel, inevitably fail, and in the process divorce my sound from any context. In this piece, I tried to do the opposite and embrace—even forcibly—the negotiations around “Shidaiqu.”