Category: Compositions

ARTIST STATEMENT This work sounds out the number of people who have died each week during the pandemic, as an attempt to understand these awful statistics. Starting from March 2020 […]

ARTIST STATEMENT 10 is a compilation of ten 1-minute tracks recorded in 10 days within the pandemic. The piece aims to capture the daily events in the life of a […]

ARTIST STATEMENT 252 may sound confusing and, I presume, for some irritating – the whole crisis is for most of us confusing and possibly irritating, I simply tried to amplify […]

Photo credit: Paul Rousteau ARTIST STATEMENT The score is about the difficulty to relate to the abstraction of the pandemic on a global scale on one side, and the falling […]

ARTIST STATEMENT ‘The word has not been recognized as a virus because it has achieved a state of stable symbiosis with the host. My basis theory is that the written […]

ARTIST STATEMENT 數字, the word translated from “number” in Chinese, has more than one connotation. It is not only used as a noun but also a verb in describing the […]

Makoto Nomura, composer, pianist, melodica player and improviser, often makes a bridge between music with something else. His “Music with Pets”(2004) at Ikon Gallery (UK) enabled the audience to bring their pets to the concert.

UP Tugtugang Musika Asyatika (UP TUGMA) is a performing group under the Musicology Department at the UP College of Music dedicated to developing a more conscious audience base for Asian music and culture, fostering the value of performance as a form of service to the community, and in raising the banner of Philippine indigenous music to the global community.

ARTIST STATEMENT Impulse Irregularities is a 4-minute piece based on my household’s monthly electricity consumption chart from January until the end of August. This composition aims to reflect and examine […]

ARTIST STATEMENT O FORTUNA 500 is a work intended to stand with the country’s frontliners during the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines. As the title suggests, my […]