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When Insight Comes in a Dream aims to make music be seen and movements be heard. Written for percussionists and visual movement, all 4 movements are carefully orchestrated to synthesize absence and presence of sound and visual movement.
The 1st movement showcases the absence of sound which begins with a blank score projected to a screen with a moving tracking in silence.
The silence develops into the 2nd movement - absence and presence of sound - in which percussionists play certain “empty note heads” in movements without producing the the sound.
In the 3rd movement - absence and presence of visual movement - begins with Coco Karol painted in white performing with a box, which is weaved together with sound. The wooden box corresponds to the visual presence of the blank measure boxes from the 1st movement, while the woodblock represents the absence and presence of sound from the 2nd movement.
The final movement is a palindrome from of the 1st movement: The absence of sound, represented by the blank measure boxes in the 1st movement, is mirrored with the absence of movement as only the wooden box is left on stage. The wooden box is revealed and a presence is seen, felt, heard.
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Dramatic/Theater
/ This is just to Say for Soprano, 2 performance artists (2012)
/ When insight comes in a dream, 4 percussionists, performance art
and video projector (2011)
/ The princess of the dead for chamber opera (2009)
/ Daughter of the Wind, dancer, 3 drums and electronics (2009)
Orchestra
/ Across my clock; it’s time to go …(2009)
/ The land of the morning Calm (2007)
/ Children of the Rock (2006)
Soloist(s) w/Orchestra
/ Dizzy, electronic guitar, string orchestra and tape recording (2005)
Chamber
/ When insight comes in a dream for four percussionists,
Performance Art and video projector (2011)
/ Musicsquare for Violin, Saxophone, Bassoon, Piano and Percussion (2010)
/ Rhymes of an Hour, percussion and piano (2008)
/ The eye between light and heart for two cellist (2009)
/ Saxophone Quartet (2008)
/ Three pieces for three winds and Geomungo (2007)
/ White Shadow for flute, string quartet and tape recording (2006)
/ Windflower I, 2 flutes and electronics (2005)
/ Gong Mu Do Ha Ga for four percussionist and pansori (2005)
/ More Human Than Human for string quartet (2004)
/ Segmentation for string quartet (2003)
Percussion
/ When insight comes in a dream for four percussionists,
Performance Art and video projector (2011)
/ I see tiny words trying to communicate for two voices and percussion (2008)
/ Windflower II, marimba (2008)
/ Rhymes of an Hour, percussion and piano (2008)
/ Gong Mu Do Ha Ga, 4 percussionist and pansori (2005)
Solo Instrument
/ Saw Sunrise frequencies emanate for solo tenor saxophone
[for Jordan Smith](2012)
/ Seeds disperse in the air to come for solo violin (2009)
/ Erev Shel Shoshanim for solo guitar (2009)
/ Red Quiet for Live flute and pre-recorded flute tracks
and corresponding videos (2008)
/ Windflower II for solo marimba (2008)
/ Rhymes of an Hour for percussion and piano (2008)
/ Self, other and other self for live solo violin and pre-recorded violin
and corresponding videos (2008)
Piano/Keyboard
/ Parallel Lines, for pianist Jenny Q Chai (2012)
/ Rhymes of an Hour, percussion and piano (2008)
/ Rain for Piano, piano 4-hands and temple blocks (2007)
/ I came from Ocean, electronics and keyboard (2006)
Vocal
/ This is just to Say for Soprano, two performance artists (2012)
/ I see tiny words trying to communicate for two voices and percussion (2008)
/ Purple Forest, mezzo-soprano and electronics (2007)
/ At Great Pond, mezzo-soprano and piano (2007)
/ I stand in the dark light, mezzo-soprano and harp (2003)
Incidental
/ Poisonberry (2012)
/ Rain, incidental music (2007) [for play by John Colton & Clemence
Randolph]["Rain, Piano for two hands and temple blocks ", 2007]
Electronic/Tape
/ Poisonberry (2012)
/ Daughter of the Wind for dancer with three drums and electronics (2009)
/ Red Quiet, live flute and pre-recorded flute tracks
and corresponding videos (2008)
/ Self, other and other self, live solo violin and pre-recorded violin
and corresponding videos (2008)
/ Purple Forest for mezzo-soprano and electronics (2007)
/ I came from Ocean for electronics and keyboard (2006)
/ White Shadow, flute, string quartet and tape recording (2006)
/ Windflower I for two flutes and electronics (2005)
/ Dizzy, electronic guitar, string orchestra and tape recording (2005)