Nick Hwang
Peace for Voice and Electronics is a work based on a poem by Rupert Burke. Premiere: May 22, 2021 - UW-Whitewater New Media Ensemble Concert, Whitewater, Wisconsin This work uses the text from Rupert Burke and his sentiment on war and allows performers to reinterpret the text through sampling, granulation, and commentary. [...]
The Dark for Voice and Piano/Harpischord was written in 2006. Monica Filgo contributed the text from which the lyrics were based and is based on her experience being mugged. In the original text and adaptation, the author alternates between violent reality and numbing imagination. I felt the turning point in the text is when the [...]
love itself shall slumber on for Soprano, Marimba, and Cello is based on a selection of poems by Percy Bysshe Shelley: 1. Love's Philosphy 2. Mutability 3. Song of Persepine.