Ville Froide

The inspiration of Ville Froide is drawn from Paul Klee’s watercolour painting under the same title (The English term is Cold City). I personally regard this music as my interpretation of Paul Klee’s work of art.The duality of ideas delineated in the painting, such as straight lines versus curves, coldness versus warmth, lightness versus darkness as well as foreground versus background, serves as my point of departure for formulating various musical events in this work. With respect to the pitch organization, a basic building block is formed by seven pitch-class sets, and each of them consists of six notes. When it is treated vertically, it becomes an ordered series of seven dissonant chords. When it is treated linearly, a number of angular phrases are so derived.Ville Froide is thus a depiction of my musical journey through this Cold City.