![]() Each musician added new texture, ideas, and harmonies in the recording process. Over the next year or so, I have added "I Can Wade Grief" as commissioned by Gloria Bangiola, and completed the cycle.Īs always, the musicians of The Broken Consort understand the sounds I heard in my head, and gave everything they had so that everyone can hear it too. In the process of developing this extended version, a magical sound world started to emerge. Later, mezzo-soprano Maren Brehm further commissioned me to write harp and violin accompaniments to these movements, along with "His feel is shod with gauze" for a commercial album. Hence the bare and innocent setting of the a cappella pieces. Her poetry was not meant to be shared, but rather, for her own amusement (or maybe for a few of her closest relations). In my mind, Emily Dickinson was a lonely girl, sitting in a lonely house, imagining a world full of possibilities. The original version, with 5 songs, were mostly a cappella. The Dickinson Songs were originally inspired and premiered by Sonja Tengbled and her colleagues at GRAMMYs-winning ensemble, Conspirare, as part of their Modern Dickinson project. Thank you so much for being a part of this meditation with me! My amazing musical team devised the accompaniment to my song, breathing life and meaning to those words. ![]() It brings me understanding and peace to the inevitability of life and death, and make me cherish my relationship with them. While it is a morbid and unusual idea to meditate on the death of a living person, it is not an unusual practice in the East. Since I was a little kid, whenever I start feeling love or attachment to someone, be it a person or an animal, I meditate on their death. It was a love poem dedicated to Benji Smith. This poem (and song), I meditated on your death today, was originally performed at a performance art show, Sing Me, Naked! I created in 2016. The bright spark we exchanged in our encounter! You have your direction, and I have mine. This version features two voices, marimba, two oboes, viola, and cello.īy chance casting a shadow on the ripples of your heart! The piece brings out the magic and mystery of the night ocean, a chance meeting of two lovers, and a thrilling and dangerous end with a soprano and oboe doubling at high intensity. It fuses influence of traditional Chinese music, rhetorical ideas from baroque Europe, visual ideas from mandarin films from the 60s, and contemporary techniques. It was originally scored for harp, lute, string quartet, and two voices. I wrote this piece in 2014 as commissioned by 20Summer and Arneis Quartet on a concert themed with ocean imageries and sounds. Peter Lim came to the rescue by making this into an elegant piece for recorder quartet, where he improvises and ornaments as a virtuosic baroque recorder player, adding personal flavors and styles to the music. ![]() While I love the musical materials, I have been wrestling with the text and its religious context for the last three years. I originally composed this piece for four women voices based on the prayer of St Francis Assisi. The album is officially released on Novemand have been featured on numerous radio shows, podcasts, and media playlists. Isle of Majesty was recorded at Dead Aunt Thelma's studio in Portland, OR in June 2019 with audio engineer Sacha Muller, and co-produced by the entire artistic team. This album features a version of Lau's popular "Seven Dickinson Songs", and songs set to original poems by Lau and Chinese poet Xu Zhimo. The album follows Lau's method of residential project-making: the artists live, cook, play, and explore as a cohesive unit for the entire duration of the project. ![]() This album features Julie Bosworth (soprano), Peter Lim (piano, oboe, recorders), Jessica Korotkin (cello), Joel Nesvadba (bass-baritone), Emily Lau (voice), with guest appearance of Nick Hogle (bass-baritone) and Justin Persichetti (percussion). Isle of Majesty is an album of original music composed and devised by Emily Lau and her chamber music ensemble, The Broken Consort.
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