I resolved to ignore the calendar, To deny the passage of space-time, to disfigure Oneself from continuity, from plotted linear Means through point A and point B; shadows blur Pathways and mountain trails where herds of deer Once grazed to escape the wiles of winter As sunsets allowed the nights to draw in closer... “Sagittarian [...]
A Game of Darts
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Social lives are just a game of darts Compelling everyone to call the shots With such brutal force, you have to hit the spots And rely on luck while the hand throws the axe, While calculations work their magic when someone hacks Laptop computers with shiny Facebook accounts And keyboards saying things from no-one's mouths [...]
Bus Ride to the Horizon
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Dark highways sprawl over surfaces Like veins crawling under obscure spaces Where brown skin and flesh reveals The invisible threads of unyielding forces Talking about multitudes of ancestors, The collision of native lands and colonizers, The concrete slabs and irreversible scars Paid for by governments that vaguely promise Better lives among greener pastures As overseas [...]
“Pangkur” at Mexico City!
onIt's been a while since their unwavering performance at the MATA Festival in New York, but the ensemble Liminar is now bringing my work Pangkur to Mexican audiences for the Foro Internacional de Música Nueva Manuel Enríquez 2018. Join them on September 22, 2018 (Saturday) at the Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City! See more information [...]
Nomadic Sound Worlds is finally here!
onNomadic Sound Worlds finally launches today! It's a four-part blog/podcast series I'm producing this year under the Canadian Music Centre Library Residency. Check out the "Nomadic Sound Worlds" section of this website for more details! https://www.instagram.com/p/BlI-Okin3wc/
Pangkur, for mixed quartet
onFinally got the recording of Pangkur as a quartet version from Nief-Norf Summer Festival 2018. I now have a playlist of Pangkur versions...the piano+percussion duo version should be next in line then. As the original festival's intent to present the work as a full sextet didn't materialize due to certain problems, I wasn't prepared to hear [...]
Premiere of “A Study on Exile, No. 3”
onWhile I'm excited to share this, fresh out of the oven, I honestly find it difficult to just treat this merely as a new piece I wrote. The interwoven stories of transnationalism, displacement, the simulation of home, and the Canadian government revoking Amy Hull's Indian status (with thousands of others) aren't just ordinary things to talk [...]
Official launch of ‘Sound Photography’ project
onCities and Memory has officially launched its "Sound Photography" project! You can look up my work Hanggang sa Takipsilim (Until Dusk) under the category 'Italy' where Giulia Biasibetti's photography (and the inspiration of the work) was taken. Seeing Hannah Leah Guanlao's theatre installation exhibit 2 years ago at a Filipino cultural festival in Toronto, I recorded her monologues [...]
Bye, New York!
onPangkur was all music acrobatics for the ensemble, but they made it happen! Thanks Liminar and congrats on your East Coast debut as well! Kudos to all composers involved as well. https://www.facebook.com/matafestival/videos/10155583630092861/ Besides the New York Classical Review, I Care if You Listen wrote a favourable review of my work and the whole "Out of Bounds" concert. [...]