SELECTED WORKS LIST
SOLO
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)
SMALL ENSEMBLE
Antonym: the opposite of nostalgia (in progress)
Flute, violin, piano, and electronics
There’s no antonym for nostalgia. Antonym attempts to construct the thing we don’t have a word for: if nostalgia is a yearning for the past, Antonym longs for forward motion and envisions the future as an escape from pain. Using field recordings of New York City throughout the year, the four seasons serve as a cyclical frame and context for memory. Special thanks to Mabou Mines 2019 Resident Artist Program.
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
INTERDISCIPLINARY
Antonym: the opposite of nostalgia (in progress)
Flute, violin, piano, and electronics
There’s no antonym for nostalgia. Antonym attempts to construct the thing we don’t have a word for: if nostalgia is a yearning for the past, Antonym longs for forward motion and envisions the future as an escape from pain. Using field recordings of New York City throughout the year, the four seasons serve as a cyclical frame and context for memory. Special thanks to Mabou Mines 2019 Resident Artist Program. Special thanks to Mabou Mines 2019 Resident Artist Program
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 (work in progress)
More info here.
Weaver (2017)
A movement from Islander
Bamboo (2017)
A movement from Islander