SELECTED WORKS LIST
Antonym: the opposite of nostalgia (in progress) - interdisciplinary performance
Composer, choreographer, performer.
Contributing choreography by Cindy Lan, Marie Lloyd Paspe, Annie Wang
Performed by sugar vendil / isogram: Cindy Lan, Annie Nikunen, Marie Lloyd Paspe, Sugar Vendil, Annie Wang
May We Know Our Own Strength (2021) - film score
for voice, violin, electronics
Film by Jih-E Peng for Amanda Phinbodhipakkiya’s installation May We Know Our Own Strength
14:40 (2022) in collaboration with John King
voice, viola, piano, electronics
ooh wo aa oo wa o (2020)
for vocalizing chamber ensemble
flute/bfl, clarinet/bcl, violin, cello, piano
Composed for The Nouveau Classical Project (RIP): Laura Cocks, Mara Mayer, Maya Bennardo, Thea Mesirow, Sugar Vendil
Commissioned by Chamber Music America. Premiered at ETHEL Festival, Brooklyn Public Library, December 10, 2021
Test Site 6: Trying not to be forgotten (2020)
Created for AUNTS WPA
This was created for AUNTS WPA, a series of chain curated virtual live shows to support artists, show some of the work that has gone unseen, and to provide light and inspiration for our community during the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Test Site 6 incorporates extended piano techniques, voice, and electronics. It plays with feedback resulting from two mobile devices streaming on Instagram Live. I drew inspiration for my process from Merce Cunningham's "50 Looks," which I had learned from Patricia Lent's online workshops.
bumalik (2023) by Marie Lloyd Paspe & Almasphere - dance
score in collaboration with treya lam
GATHER (2023) - film score
for saxophone, electronics - featuring Aakash Mittal
Film by Jih-E Peng for Amanda Phinbodhipakkiya’s GATHER
diseuse (2022) inspired by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s DICTEE
voice and electronics
premiered at Conjurings III at Center for Arts, Research, and Alliances (CARA)
adr solo version (2022) inspired by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s DICTEE
voice and electronics
premiered at Conjurings III at Center for Arts, Research, and Alliances (CARA)
ADR inspired by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s DICTEE (2022)
voice and piano
premiered by Amanda Hick, soprano, and Walter Aparicio, piano
Porcelaines Suite (2021) - dance
for a reimagining of Ballet des Porecelaines by Meredith Martin and Phil Chan
Choreographed by Phil Chan
Premiere: Met Museum on December 6, 2021
Ee no thee say for toy piano and electronics (2020)
Premiered at Queensbridge Park for Mostly Mozart Across the Boroughs
Simple Tasks (2020)
Simple Tasks is a solo piano piece based on a list of easy tasks: things that I could do to maintain a sense of stability while processing immense grief and anxiety.
Test Site 5: Seedlings for voice and electronics (2019)
Created and performed at Marble House Project
Test Sites is a series of performance pieces that are experiments in process. Each Test Site involves a short-term process and are exercises in limits and creativity.
Thanks to my fellow MHP residents Hanne G, Leigh Gallagher, Melanie Greene, Cole & Shilpa of Khaona Kitchen, Alexis Lathem, Ian Trask, and Luisa Valderrama for their beautiful howls! And huge thanks to MHP for the space, time, and peonies.
No Thing On for toy piano (2018)
Based on Part 1 of John Cage’s Lecture on Nothing
password: nothing
Untitled for midi keyboard and Ableton (2018)
I. Trace
II. Follow
Commissioned by calligrapher/performer Aoi Yamaguchi
Test Site 3: Blood for prepared piano and electronics (2018)
Islander (in progress)
Voice, sarunay, melodica, midi keyboard, toy piano, piano, loom, electronics
ISLANDER is a music and movement suite scored for various keyboards, sarunay, and electronics. From the lens of a second generation Filipino American, the work examines the residue colonialism has left behind through centuries and generations, and explores the tension, fragmentation, and loss that exists within one’s identity.
Test Site 2: Study Within Sculptures for voice and violin (2016)
Composed with Trevor Gureckis and Hajnal Pivnick
Test Site 4 (2019)
Created in Collaboration with Jing Yu
I. Now
II. then
III. Then
Created and performed by Sugar Vendil and Jing Yu
Music by Sugar Vendil, sampling Don't Speak by No Doubt in II. then
Sashes from Jing Yu's Fait Accompli (2012)
Video by Jing Yu
Supported by Target Margin's Artist Residency Program
Islander (2018) - interdisciplinary performance
More info here.