Coffee, air fryer, and pepper for two percussionists, viola, cello and actress
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Abstract
Coffee, Air Fryer, and Pepper is a multi-sensory piece that incorporates the smell of spices, the sound of preparing the spices, and music. Embracing the musicality in our daily life sounds, I found my compositions are most natural and sincere when I use meaningful sounds that happen around me as the model and the inspiration. I believe such compositions help transform one’s sound experience in daily life into a musical one. In my past pieces I have used daily conversation as sound model and apply the harmony that is naturally embedded in the speech. For example, in the piece “人有一天”, I used the sound of my grandmother’s monologue as the model, and assigned the harmony analyzed from the speech to solo Zheng and tape. Including the performance of grinding coffee beans, brewing coffee and roasting spice, Coffee, Air Fryer, and Pepper builds a bridge between the music and the audience through common everyday life experience.
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2025
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Attribution 4.0 International