Morning, 6/26/2015 (2015)
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duration: 10 minutes
written for and premiered by ensemble Pause (Erin Lesser, Michael Clayville, Chris Thompson, John Orfe, & Courtney Orlando)
12/2/2015 Riverside, CA
12/4/2015 Portland, OR
In the morning of 26 June 2015, the Supreme Court of the United States legalized same-sex marriage. This piece is titled from the historic moment but not about victory of human rights – it is even hardly about LGBTQ people.
When I was asked to write this piece (in April 2015), I had been lost in thought of the seniors that live alone and stay mostly at home and people with mental issues that are bound inside. How would their day be like? When my contemplation on this subject matter came across the remarkable morning, I was, undeniably, enjoying the victory for human rights, but on the other hand, could not help wondering, what this moment would mean to the truly isolated. To share some personal story, for instance, my grandmother, lived alone for a handful of years. Being retired, she always stayed at home watching TV. Not a lot of events are relevant or full of meaning to her, and I think it was true to many other people, including, to some extent, to us.
Placing the question of ‘being other’ in the conceptual center, this piece has complex timbral fabric evolving slowly to symbolize the ever-changing outside world. After undergoing dramatic metamorphoses, however, it simply comes back, as if nothing had happened.
In the piece, I quoted a phrase of Justice Anthony Kennedy, not clearly audible as it is whispered. It is: ‘their hope is not to be condemned to live in loneliness.’
duration: 10 minutes
written for and premiered by ensemble Pause (Erin Lesser, Michael Clayville, Chris Thompson, John Orfe, & Courtney Orlando)
12/2/2015 Riverside, CA
12/4/2015 Portland, OR
In the morning of 26 June 2015, the Supreme Court of the United States legalized same-sex marriage. This piece is titled from the historic moment but not about victory of human rights – it is even hardly about LGBTQ people.
When I was asked to write this piece (in April 2015), I had been lost in thought of the seniors that live alone and stay mostly at home and people with mental issues that are bound inside. How would their day be like? When my contemplation on this subject matter came across the remarkable morning, I was, undeniably, enjoying the victory for human rights, but on the other hand, could not help wondering, what this moment would mean to the truly isolated. To share some personal story, for instance, my grandmother, lived alone for a handful of years. Being retired, she always stayed at home watching TV. Not a lot of events are relevant or full of meaning to her, and I think it was true to many other people, including, to some extent, to us.
Placing the question of ‘being other’ in the conceptual center, this piece has complex timbral fabric evolving slowly to symbolize the ever-changing outside world. After undergoing dramatic metamorphoses, however, it simply comes back, as if nothing had happened.
In the piece, I quoted a phrase of Justice Anthony Kennedy, not clearly audible as it is whispered. It is: ‘their hope is not to be condemned to live in loneliness.’