Primordial Waves, for Orchestra

Conducted by Daniela Candillari

Performed by the MSM Composers’ Orchestra

Premiered on Feb 28, 2020 at the Neidorff-Karpati Hall, New York, NY

Program Note

Primordial Waves, for Orchestra is a graduation thesis project for my master’s degree at Manhattan School of Music. The work began at first as revisiting an exercise from my orchestration class two years ago which was a linear analysis of György Ligeti’s Lontano (1957), and Luciano Berio’s Requies (1985). What began as a simple studying of an exercise soon turned into a questioning of my compositional style of my previous orchestra piece looked at from the present days, which ended up bringing the necessity of discovering a different approach to orchestral composition. The work is a composition of space, which focuses on the location of sound progressing from one area to another. The inspiration for the music comes from a variety of unrelated sources, including Ligeti’s Lontano, Gérard Grisey’s Partiels (1975), Ryuichi Sakamoto’s Garden (2017), Daan Roosegaarde’s Waterlicht (2015), etc. With gratitude, the work is dedicated to my teacher Reiko Füting.