I seek to reconcile and sublimate these tensions not through stylistic eclecticism, but through clarity of expression and depth of process.
II. GLORIA–Canticle of the Creatures from Missa Laudato Si’ (2023–25)
for Six Singers, SATB Chorus, Treble Chorus, and 12 Instruments
영광송-“창조물들의 찬가,” 여섯명의 솔로이스트, 합창단, 높은 음 합창단, 열 두 악기를 위한, “찬미받으소서 미사" 중 제 2악장
World premiere, In conjunction with The EcoVoice Project, Ignatian Voices, University Singers, and University Chorale
March 15, 2025, Jo Ann Rooney Hall, Loyola Universich Chicago
1. Motuum Cælestium
2. Star flies over dark matter (at 9:56)
Commissioned by the Center for Contemporary Composition at the University of Chicago
The Grossman Ensemble, Vimbayi Kaziboni, conductor
The Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, Chicago, December 3 2021
2021 Fromm Players at Harvard Co-curated by Miranda Cuckson and Anne Shreffler
Streamed on Harvard's Music Department YouTube Channel, April 2021
"Callithumpian Consort: Karchin, Murail, Chacon, Rădulescu, Lee, and Montgomery"
Ariel Mo, piano, Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory, Boston, US, January 18, 2022
A five movements / 45 minutes microtonal work for string quartet
Nov 2018, Jupiter Quartet, Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, Urbana, US
Live Recording from the World Premiere, The Kairos Quartett
Oct 3 2020, Villa Elisabeth, Berlin, Germany
Live recording from the premiere, 2023 ver. (ca. 30 min.)
April 29, 2024 at 8:00 PM (ET), Brown Hall, New England Conservatory, Boston
Scoring: two pianos tuned in a quarter-tone apart
Hanah Choi and Hanqian Zhu, piano 18th Annual 21st Century Piano Competition Concert, February 10, 2017
Foellinger Great Hall, Krannert Center for the Performing Arts
A Thousand Bells: Acoustical Implementation of Bell Spectra Using the Finite Element Method and Its Compositional Realization (DMA dissertation, deposited in September 2020)
Bell 002–an ideally optimized bell
Prime, Tierce, Quint, Nominal = 15/8, 9/7, 3/2, 7/4
Object function value = 0.0000017053
Prime, Tierce, Quint, Nominal = 15/8, 9/7, 3/2, 7/4
Object function value = 0.0000017053
Bell 023–a non-octave bell with just major 7th prime with “pure” beatings
Prime, Tierce, Quint, Nominal = 16/15, 14/6, 16/11, 15/4
Object function value = 0.0013977
Prime, Tierce, Quint, Nominal = 16/15, 14/6, 16/11, 15/4
Object function value = 0.0013977
Bell 013–the bell sound material that is used in TIMESTORY, "Overtone Bell"
Prime, Tierce, Quint, Nominal = 15/8, 10/4, 3/2, 7/4
Object function value = 0.000033162
Prime, Tierce, Quint, Nominal = 15/8, 10/4, 3/2, 7/4
Object function value = 0.000033162
Lehr-Bell 001–a traditional minor-3rd bell from the undertone series
Prime, Tierce, Quint, Nominal = 9/5, 6/5, 3/2, 4
Object function value = 0.000033162
Prime, Tierce, Quint, Nominal = 9/5, 6/5, 3/2, 4
Object function value = 0.000033162
