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The Fallen Leave Falls (2025)
      For flute, bassoon, piano, live electronics and video   

Yesterday Yet To Come (2025)
      For installation, cassette tapes, and live electronics   

When Clouds Are One Cloud Till The Horizon (2025)
      For Mixed String Ensemble   

They Have Only Existence (2025)
      For Solo Percussion, Live Electronics, and Generative Video Score   

The Poetics of Waiting… (2025)
      Installation for Interactive Animations and Spatialized Sound   

Shards of The Untraced (2025)
      For String Quartet and Spatialized Fixed Media   

Events And Results (2024)
      Video Game   

Unsupervised (2024)
      For Electric Guitar Quartet and Light   

Place Each Body Part on the Box And... (2023)
      For Wood, Resin, Print, Force Sensors and 6-channel Fixed Media   

inhere nowhere (2023)
      For Mixed Ensemble, Live-electronics, and Spatialization  

The Forgotten Ones (2020)
      For String Quartet and Fixed Media   

Clouds (2019)
      For Flute and Live Electronics   

Visual

Warp (2025)
      For 4-channel Fixed Media and Audio-reactive Video   

Photography

Cloud of Sound, Sound of Cloud  

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Scordatura Tuner

36 EDO Player

48 EDO Player

The Fallen Leave Falls (2025)
 For flute, bassoon, piano, live electronics and video
   
8 minutes in one movement. 

Commissioned by Apply Triangle and Chaospace. 
Premiered Nov. 23, 2025, The DiMenna Center for Classical Music, New York, NY.

This piece extends my ongoing exploration of sound, memory, and the recollection of time. It grew out of a small memory from my summer in Beauchêne — one I repeatedly revisited, with each return subtly altered as emotions shifted, images blurred, and details fell out of alignment. The score invites the performer to repeat and vary sonic fragments according to their own subjective recall. In doing so, the work treats each instant as double, with perception unfolding in the work treats each instant as double, with perception unfolding in the present and recollection shadowing it. Through these repetitions and recollections, the work stages the act of remembering itself: fragments are retrieved, re-ordered, and re-voiced, so that the past is reconstructed while the present is unfolding. As the title suggests, a leaf falls. It has fallen. It falls because it has already fallen.

« Tout moment de notre vie offre donc deux aspects : il est actuel et virtuel, perception d’un côté et souvenir de l’autre. »
                                                                       — Henri Bergson, “Le souvenir du présent et la fausse reconnaissance”





 

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