Lamentations is an acoustic and psychological exploration of the boundless instrument and the bounded composer (and his ideas), respectively. Using the specific D-heavy scordatura, the piece is searching for a musical meaning of a quarter-tone tuned A string in a different context in each of the movements. Laments is a work of a large scope of musical facets, primarily inspired by a contemplative mood of an introspective exploration of me appearing on the verge in my approach to aesthetics. Collaborating with a dear friend Jan Stránský, in this work, I was liberated from many deciding factors of the appearance of many other works of mine; hence, I was enabled to get fascinated by this instrument and simply “get lost”…
Recording:
Tin Yi Chelsea Wong, piano