emanate for piano-percussion quartet and electronics (2022)

Instrumentation:

Piano I & II, Percussion I & II, Electronics

Duration: ca. 8' 30"

About the piece:

emanate explores the movement of sounds emerging from the inside of the piano, and dispersing into the surrounding space. The first section of the piece focuses on the sounds produced inside the piano, triggered by the keys and employing the natural resonance of the piano. As the piece progresses, the sound source is spatially expanded, as the two percussionists walk to the extreme ends of the stage, and the electronics provide an illusion of a large space. Subsequently, the performers come together, this time exploring the intimate sounds produced solely with the frame and strings of the piano, with the electronics providing an artificial sense of space through amplification and reverb.

Commissioned by UNHEARD

First performance: 

February 2022, Singapore

Performed by:

Pauline Lee, Jonathan Shin (piano), Ramu Thiruyanam, Eugene Toh (percussion), Lynette Quek (electronics)

Subsequent performance:

September 2022, Peabody Conservatory, Baltimore, USA

Performed by:

Arin Shahjahanian, Jonathan Shin (piano), Benjamin Giroux, Johnny Barker (percussion), Isaac Friedenberg (electronics)