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Works

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   

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

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    

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When Clouds Are One Cloud Till The Horizon (2025)

For Mixed String Ensemble (2 vln, 2 vla, 2 cl, 2 e. gtr, cb)
9 minutes in one movement
Premiered August 10, 2025, at Creative Dialogue, Château de Beauchêne, France

During the summer of 2025, I began to explore some printmaking works. The act of layering inks and repeating gestures in the printing process felt profoundly musical to me. For this project, I turned to one of my favorite subjects agagin -- clouds. Drawing on photographs of clouds I have taken over the years, I explored ways of translating their shifting forms into patterns and textures.

This piece extends that exploration into sound. Just as printmaking builds depth through repetition and layering, the music unfolds through textures that return and transform, delicate variations, and shifting harmonic spaces within the ensemble. In this horizon-like expanse, clouds become not only visual material but also a metaphor for resonance, transformation, and continuity—countless gestures merging into one cloud till the horizon.

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last updated Oct-2025