Works Catalogue
anamorphosis (2026)
for string quartet
Performance(s):
Tanglewood Music Center: New Fromm Players (July 2026)
New Music New Haven, Yale School of Music (November 2026)
Length: c. 14’
Instrumentation: violins (2), viola, cello
Completed: July 2026
Programme Note
Anamorphosis: a distortion of image or projection which appears normal when viewed from a particular point or with a suitable mirror or lens.
The title for each movement is evocative of auditory and psychological transformation of sound and information.
I. Prelude: Refract - a motivic fragment is presented and shrouded in a crystalline texture, only to give way to a singular melodic fragment akin to a light refraction
II. Gigue: Distort - a play on sound and the genre of the gigue, or jig
III. Air: Reverberation - an aria of echoing voices that overlap each other
IV. Scherzino: Schizophonia - schizophonia, a term coined by R. Murray Schaefer, is a separation of sound from its original source through electroacoustic recording and reproduction.
V. Lied: Confabulation - To confabulate is to unconsciously fill the gaps in your memory with fabricated or distorted information. The title is a word play on the German lieder.
VI. Finale: Collide - Combines the musical elements from all the previous movements