With Dayang Yraola curating this project, the installation aims to bring performance/sound art and discourses on the environment out where no one could avoid them: at street lamp posts! Upon invitation, I composed a 2 1/2-minute acousmatic work as my contribution to the sound installation component of this project (and also as a potential platform of discourse [...]
Kansas City-Montreal Musical Exchange
onThe Black House Collective (from Kansas City) and the Montreal Contemporary Music Lab will be doing a collaborative exchange program this coming April and June 2015. I am privileged to be selected as one of the composer participants from Montreal, and so I am commissioned to write a 10-minute new sextet work for this purpose.I'll post updates regarding this [...]
McGill Association of Student Composers workshop concert
onIt will just be a small concert event, but the stage is set for another performance of Gandingan sa Kagiliran by percussionists Karen Yu and Ryan Kelly! Join us on 10 December 2014 7:30PM EST @ the Wirth Opera Studio (2nd flr basement, New Music Building, Schulich School of Music) in McGill University. Works by Marlon Schumacher, Raphael-Tristan [...]
Yogyakarta Contemporary Music Festival 2014
onThis festival reminds me of good 'ol times! I remember my first time participating here five years ago, and it was a memorable first visit to Indonesia as well. This time, my work Gandingan sa Kagiliran for 2 percussionists will be performed once again in this quaint old city of Yogyakarta that is the home [...]
Montreal Contemporary Music Lab 2014
onIt was a very good opportunity for me to join this year's edition of the MCML as I met a lot of composers and musicians from all over Canada and the United States. Besides hearing ideas from composers and collaborating with musicians in the improvisation sessions, I had a premiere of my newest percussion duo [...]
Bagatelles: Philosophical Ventures into the World of the Music Miniature
onThe Manila Composers Lab once again presented a January 2014 concert at the University of the Philippines College of Music featuring piano miniature works written by its composer members. Pianist Mikhail Lastrilla, who is a dear friend of mine, premiered my work Bagatelle in this concert which you can check out in my Soundcloud page.
“Sa Kanyang Munting Yapak” premiere
onMy work Sa Kanyang Munting Yapak (In Her Baby Steps) had been selected for dissonArt Ensemble's "Collaborative Miniature Project" that sought out miniature works from composers all over the world. The ensemble premiered all 111 works in Thessaloniki on 14 October 2013, and you can check out my work in my Soundcloud page!
sa kanyang paglayag
onNa sa kanyang paglayag Makita ang tinatamasang Maningning na liwanag. That in one's voyage One will see what one desires A glimmering light. = sometime in 2011 =
…sa kanyang paglingon…sa kawalan na nasisilayan sa kagiliran…*
onSaan pa ba hahanapin Kundi sa sariling mga panaginip Lupain na abot-tanaw ang kawalan. Where else does one find Except in one's own dreams A place where nothing exists beyond the horizon. * "...in her glances...to the abyss seen beyond the horizon..."
Juro Kim Feliz 