Mist on a Hill

In this piece, harmonic fields are constructed from various combinations of pitches. They vary from two to seven pitches per octave. The solo pipa and the electroacoustic sounds enter a dialog which follows the various states of the harmonic fields.

This piece was composed with the collaboration of pipa player Gao Yunxiang (高韵翔). She provided all the pipa sounds which I used to realize the electroacoustic parts.

Mist on a Hill received its first performance in October 2009 during the Musicacoustica festival in Beijing. and has since been performed on other occasions in Beijing, Tapei , Irvine (California) and New York.  The pipa player was Gao Yunxiang.