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Large Ensemble
2023
Bass Trombone
Cello
Clarinet
Double Bass
Flute
Harp
Oboe
Piano
Pitched Percussion
Saxophone
Trumpet
Unpitched Percussion
Viola
Violin
- Program Notes
- Down the rabbit hole is the first scene from Alice in Wonderland. I was really inspired by not only the literature of Lewis Carroll but also by artworks, fashion, fine-dining, opera or motion picture that are inspired by it. Composition is divided into two part. The first half and the second half are drastically different in terms of timbre, register, regularity, gestures, harmonies and aesthetics. As a composer, I wanted to mix and blend the sound from both realm in my own language. So that I wanted to question the binary world that divides into two: * Reality vs Imagination / Realism vs Surrealism / Regularity vs Irregularity / High vs Low and so forth. I sketched the formal structure first, and started narrowing down one by one. It started from the highest register with very fragile sonic fabrication that eventually morphs into the deep and lowest but very devouring textures. Rabbit hole, in the mean time, also has a double meaning. It also means a complexly bizarre or difficult state or situation conceived of as a hole into which one falls or descends. So I wanted to express that by showing the strong pitch centricity to C that you will lose when you are actually going down the hole when towards the ending which you will sense by those descending gestures.
- Performer Credits
- Old Bay New Music
- Publisher
- Self