This song started off with two crazy ideas,  “what if I compose with no meter but along a motif”, and, “what if I swtich its mood completely in its second half”?

Starting the first half of the song with serenity and coldness, the second half dives into a burning zeal.

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Performed at Shanghai Baixin Bookstore and Dwellers Art Space, “When Stars Fall into the River” is something I wrote when I just landed in NYC, overwhelmed by this Metropolitan city. Reflecting on my homesickness, I wrote this llulaby for adults to give myself and my audience a calming space. To admit I was lost, but there is always hope.

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Performed by the World Music Ensemble at the Grant Recital Hall @ Brown, "Blue Scar" is a Single of two songs I composed and mixed in an attempt to capture the possible consequences of water-related environmental crises. With the two songs, I aspire to inspire my audience to emphasize with the music content and have the basic-level emotional understanding toward the severity of the problems.

Gentle, ethereal, and sad. "Withering Land", as how it's titled, talks about rising sea level. While it serves as a reflection on this pressing issue, it also carries a sense of nostalgia, as I contemplate the future loss of beloved coastal areas that hold special meaning to me. The song possesses a captivating quality that lends itself to being looped, allowing listeners to fully immerse themselves in its evocative content.

With an accent on the more eerie side of my music, "Thirst in the Waves" addresses the issue of water scarcity by illustrating a world dominated by arid deserts and an acidic ocean. Contrasting with

"Withering Land," this piece delves into a more experimental and cinematic style, evoking the ambiance of film scores. To enhance its theme, I generated a string of sounds by MaxMsp, utilizing data on global fresh water consumption. The bubbling sound effect mimics the sensation of breathing underwater and serves as a forewarning of impending suffocation. Furthermore, the volume of the bubbling sound increases in correlation with the rise in the source data.

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An experiment of creating water-like sound. A part of the Single “Two Quiet Years”

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“Rendezvous” refers to a meeting at an agreed time and place, typically between two people

The irony lies at, while the in the lyrics the singer is asking the other person to come only at their convenience, she also speaks contrary to her thought.

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