related works
Breakthrough : for flute and accordion / Man-Ching Yu Donald
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Flute and keyboard instrument
Scoring:
fl acc
Blades of Light : for symphony orchestra / Chiel Meijering
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
2fl 2ob 2cl 4fh 4tpt 4trb tb perc e.pf e.g e.g-b 2vl vla vc db
Paramaecia : voor orkest, 1970 / Lucas van Regteren Altena
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
4120 2100 timp perc pf4h str
Sonatas : orchestra / Geert van Keulen
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
4443 6431 4perc pf str(12.12.8.8.4.)
composition
Unravelling : for orchestra / Man-Ching Yu Donald
Author(s):
Yu, Donald
(Composer)
Description:
Recently I have been obsessed with consciousness which is one of the profoundest mysteries in modern science among human beings. Some scientists believe that consciousness is not only limited to our physical brain activities, but it is also a part of the spiritual force and nature that transcends space and time existing in cosmos, and that its existence is separated from our physical body. In some cases, higher form of consciousness has been experienced in another dimension of reality when travelling out of our physical body. The music reflects my personal feeling towards the mystical realms of consciousness. Throughout the piece, economic use of pitches, the gradual participation of different pitches in different layers by canonic procedure along with various suspended dramatic changes and transformations of musical elements, are the prominent feature describing the transcendence of consciousness in suspended time and space.
Donald Yu