Experiment Composition

Composition

Dedicated to HIDE and YOSHIKI
Art of Life
For Flute, Trumpet, Soprano, Tenor, Piano, and Drum Kit
2016-5

Prelude - Curse - Insanity - Elegy - Redemption - Rebirth

Four Miscellaneous Symbols · Flower
四象·花

Music by J. Hermit

“四象”，Four Miscellaneous Symbols from I Ching (《易经》)；“花”, Flower in English. The piece is generated from a 13×13 matrix, and the music notes demonstrate the shape of the Chinese character "花" in four dimensions.

Illusion

For Flute, Trombone and Piano
2016-8

Five Elements
Electroacoustic Music

2016-3-22

Water - Wood - Fire - Earth - Metal
In Chinese philosophy, the five elements generate one another in order as a circle.

Schwarz

2016-12-17

Stillness
For Flute, Alto Saxophone, Viola, Soprano, Tenor, and Piano
2016-3

Stability and mobility generate from each other.

Parallel World D

2016-2

I
(for solo soprano)
II
(for solo viola)
III
(for solo trumpet)

Is the parallel world a Utopian or is it also filled with conflicts?

Into the Bamboo

2015-5-29

- Foreword

A sad warrior walked into a bamboo forest. Unexpectedly, he encountered a pretty fairy living in the bamboo and interesting stories happened soon after they met each other… …

-Description

This piece consists of three sections: A, B and C.

Section A is in minor key, which is the theme of the sad warrior. The instrumentations used are two types of Chinese flutes (Dizi and Xiao), Guzheng, and Asian Percussion.

Section B and C are both in major pentatonic. Section B is the theme of the fairy and the instrumentations are Celtic Tin Whistle, Celtic Harp and European Folk Kit. The instrumentations of the warrior start to join in during the second half of section B and the story is about they start to like each other, which makes the warrior happy.

In Section C, the rhythm pattern changes to triplets and this indicates they are dancing together. The instrumentations bend more with each other and lead this story to a happy ending.

The interesting point in making this piece is choosing the instrumentation. Even though one group is Chinese and the other is European, they are actually very similar: flute, harp and percussion. At first they are used to introduce different themes but the meaning behind it is the warrior and the fairy have a lot in common, even though they may look very different, and that is why they join each other and go to a happy ending.

无 (Wú) - Homage to Guitar

For Alto Saxophone and Piano
2014-9-17

“无”, pronounced as “Wu” with rising tone (Wú), is a Chinese character, and the meaning is “none, nothing”. In Chinese philosophy, everything is included in “无” and everything can be generated from “无”.

Adventure of Carrot

For French Horn, Violin, Classical Guitar, and Piano
2014-10-22

This is an interesting story. ^_^

P for Paris

2015-11-14

@ J. Hermit - Yunjia Liu 2019