The title "Of Being" by Emily Praetorius comes from Virginia Woolf's concept of "moments of being," which are sudden experiences that reveal an underlying pattern or interconnectedness.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Wang Lu's music reflects influences from traditional Chinese music, urban environmental sounds, linguistic intonation, and freely improvised traditions, viewed through contemporary instrumental techniques.
Compositional Technique
Wang Lu's "Rates of Extinction" uses gradually decreasing and decelerating polyrhythmic layers and simple tempo/pulse motives to represent the heart rates of different animals that went extinct around 2015.
Compositional Technique
Misato Mochizuki's "Moebius-Ring" is a series of variations based on repetitive pulsations, where the piano tries to escape these pulsations but invariably returns to them.
Composer Biography
Misato Mochizuki, born in Tokyo in 1969, is a composer active in Europe, North America, and Japan, who studied composition at the National University of Fine Arts and Music in Tokyo and the Conservatoire National Supérieur in Paris.
Performer Biography
Pianist Ning Yu performs both traditional and contemporary repertoire, having given dozens of world premieres by new and established composers.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Emily Praetorius's "Of Being" navigates between suspended and flowing time, using minimal material to hyper-focus on discrete moments like the decay of a note or the fragility of a sound.
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