Let me be me for amplified 4 instruments (2021) [24']
[Instrumentation: sax, perc, (e) guit, vln+vla]
premiered by Salvatore Castellano, Paolo Fratello, Francesco Pamlieri, Maria Muñoz Lopez and Chanhee Lim in Basel on 12. April, 2021
In the spring of 2021, when I was exhausted because of the covid19, it was clearer and brighter than ever when I looked outside. As I watched nature find itself like this, the words of Master Seong-cheol came to mind: “A mountain is a mountain and a water is water.” Yes, mountains are mountains and waters are water, so why am I not me? Why am I having a hard time being myself? I did this work with this voicing. So naturally, I thought about how I can be myself without doing anything, and this work is the first result.
One inconvenient truth regardless of this work is that if someone has a stereotype about me, I act like their stereotype, and if someone doesn't have that, I act my own way. Just as someone's thoughts control me, my thoughts will also control someone. That is why I need your help in order to exist as me, and I need my help in order for you to exist as you. Help here is help without help.
[Instrumentation: sax, perc, (e) guit, vln+vla]
premiered by Salvatore Castellano, Paolo Fratello, Francesco Pamlieri, Maria Muñoz Lopez and Chanhee Lim in Basel on 12. April, 2021
In the spring of 2021, when I was exhausted because of the covid19, it was clearer and brighter than ever when I looked outside. As I watched nature find itself like this, the words of Master Seong-cheol came to mind: “A mountain is a mountain and a water is water.” Yes, mountains are mountains and waters are water, so why am I not me? Why am I having a hard time being myself? I did this work with this voicing. So naturally, I thought about how I can be myself without doing anything, and this work is the first result.
One inconvenient truth regardless of this work is that if someone has a stereotype about me, I act like their stereotype, and if someone doesn't have that, I act my own way. Just as someone's thoughts control me, my thoughts will also control someone. That is why I need your help in order to exist as me, and I need my help in order for you to exist as you. Help here is help without help.
