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John Lane and Allen Otte recorded a few works of mine in May: Forms of falling dust for prepared yangqin and electronics, and a new version of 铁钉 An Iron Nail, now with electronics and amplified soundboard sculptures.

Here are some photos from John’s documentation:

And here are the videos:

I was in Berlin at the start of the month to work with Ensemble Adapter on the recording of the piece I wrote them last year.

Here is the recording:

And also a few photos:

A few new recordings from the past two months…

Yongyun Zhang recorded a new performance of our 2017 drum and voice work 辜月 November Moon, which was included on the Women Composers Festival of Hartford’s 2021 Virtual Festival:

Harpist Anne Serger and I also had a recording session in February of the piece I wrote her this past fall, 没有梦的人在梦中走过 In / ohne Träume:

The Hannoversche Gesellschaft für Neue Musik published an interview with writer Autumn Tsai and myself about the project we undertook last year with Beiguan musicians Liu Yu-Hsiu and Li Chi-Chien of Ensemble Water-Stage in Taipei. The full transcript can be read here.

Video from the premiere in September on the opening concert of the 2020 Kuandu Arts Festival:

聲音與打擊樂，劉育秀 | Voice and Percussion, Liu Yu-Hsiu
聲音與彈撥，李季謙｜Voice and Sanxian, Li Chi-Chien

I have been composing new works for Trio Recherche and Ensemble Temporum, as well as starting on a correspondence electronics project with Finnish composer/sound designer Johanna Sulalampi.

Germany has returned to a stricter lockdown, but I have been able to practice piano and compose at a local church a few days a week.

When things were more open, I was able to meet in Hannover with harpist Anne Serger to workshop the new solo for prepared harp I wrote for her.

For a while now, Allen Otte and I have been collaborating on new pieces with prepared yangqin. In the online exhibition Music as Image and Metaphor, you can hear a small contribution for yangqin and electronics. (Recording here).

Online concert tonight with XelmYa, including the EU premiere of the alto recorder solo I wrote for Sylvia:

Full program:

XelmYa+ – Freddi Börnchen, oboe & Sarah Saviet, violin & Sylvia Hinz, recorder

Scramble (1971) – Simone Forti (*1935, US)
Lágrimas de sol (2018) para oboe EUA – Melissa Vargas Franco (*1980, CO)
undone (2020)*** for violin solo UA – Soosan Lolavar (*1987, IR/UK)
Points of return (2018)** for alto recorder solo EUA – Rachel C. Walker (*1994, US)
decessio (2019)* – Jeanne Strieder (*1980, DE)

* for XelmYa+, ** for Sylvia Hinz, *** for Sarah Saviet