instrumentation

String Quartet

 

duration

10

 

year composed

2010

 

première year

2010

 

première artists

Hong Kong New Music Ensemble

 

other info

Silent Film, New Music: Chaplin + Philip Glass

 

program notes

These pieces were composed by improvising on the piano while watching Chaplin’s film, capturing the gesture and touch of Jazz music; focusing on actor’s facial expression; imitating actor's movements and emotions through musical colors. After all, I tidied up my musical ideas into string quartet then blend it into the film.