- For piccolo, 3 flutes, 2 oboes, clarinet in Eb, 3 clarinets in Bb, bass clarinet in Bb, 2 bassoons, contra bassoon, soprano saxophone, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone, 3 trumpets in C, 4 horns in F, 2 tenor trombones, bass trombone, tuba, timpani, 3 percussion.
- Duration: 7 minutes 30 seconds
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Awards and festival appearances:
Alex Shapiro Prize, IAWM Search for New Music, 2020
Midwest Composers Symposium, Indiana University, 2019 -
Program note:
This piece is inspired by the wave movement of water ripples. Water waves are a mixture of longitudinal and transverse waves. They have various shapes, directions and dimensions. In this piece, I try to present an auditory illustration of three wave movements and effects, from formation until it fades. In the first section, the wave forms, at a single point, and starts to disperse and expand to the surrounding area. In the second section, we can see the vertical movements the wave causes in the water, rising from a low point gradually to a high point and then cycling back. In the final section, after a long time propagating, the energy of water ripples decreases and we can barely see the wave, but it is still going and moving towards a further place.
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