UC Berkeley

...who can recall the past lives… is a musical composition for large mixed ensemble with

optional amplification. The work explores the idea of translating a personal aesthetic of

transformation, reincarnation and hybridity into music.

In this work, different types of harmonic materials, such as spectral, microtonal, and equal-tempered harmonies, are superimposed and juxtaposed while transforming as they constantly move into each other’s harmonic domain. Pure sounds and complex sounds also intertwine with instrumental sounds and real sounds from the world, thus creating a kind of sonic hybridity. Sonic materials are also composed in such as way that, strangely, they are reincarnated.

…who can recall the past lives… is inspired by the film “Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His

Past Lives” of Apichatpong Weerasethakul.