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I will serve on faculty of the Department of Music of the National Sun Yat-sen University as an Adjunct Assistant Professor from February 2015.

Open Courses:
Special Topics on Music Composition / Orchestration

I will serve on faculty of the Department of Music of the National Taiwan Normal University as an Adjunct Assistant Professor from August 2014.

Open Courses:
Composition / Orchestration / Musical Analysis / Computer Music (Logic Pro) / Advanced Harmony

I will serve on faculty of the Music Department of the Fu Jen Catholic University as an Adjunct Assistant Professor from September 2014.

Open Courses:
Music Composition / Applied Music Composition / Orchestration / Computer Application and Basic Music Notation Software / The Fundamentals & Extensive Usages of Finale Computer Notation / Arrangement and Advanced Music Notation Software (Cubase) / Music Analysis

My entry for the 2^nd Annual CINE Film Scoring Competition for Emerging Composers was achieved the Top 30 with remarks from the three judges Mychael Danna (Life of Pi film composer), George S. Clinton (Chair of Berklee College of Music’s Film Scoring Department), and Daniel Carlin (Chair of Film Scoring at USC’s Thornton School of Music):

“Original and poetic, full of emotion and pathos, not tied to the film but illustrating it. I felt envious that I would never write something like this, which I guess is the ultimate compliment. Congrats whoever you are, you got it right! “

Here to watch the clip on Youtube:

I got my diploma of Ph.D. in Composition from the UCLA today and now officially hold the doctoral degree.

The Dawn, a small piece for piano was written by me on Nov 7, 2010.

Pure Sound Waves (2006 – 2007):

There are various sounds consisting of clamors, cheers, laughs, and cries in a metropolis as Taipei, Taiwan. In Pure Sound Waves, I present abstract relationships between these sounds by not only depicting their concepts from the original definitions but also embodying them musically via string quartet, one of the oldest conventional instrumental settings of the world of classical music.

I convey innovative ideas and complex emotion into this piece. By combining unusual harmony, experimental acoustics, irregular rhythm, and exclusive strings’s timbres, I expect that the audience will experience the varying degrees of the tension and all the unexpected sonority.

The composition comprises eight sections that are Chant, Laugh, Whisper, Dialogue, Silence?, Chatter, Cry, and Lament in sequence. I build up these musical sections with both the traditional and spatial notations in order to clearly express the miscellaneous sounds that resonate in my memory of living in such a bustling metropolis.

Moreover, in addition to the graphic notation, I also exploit the technique of pitch class in the middle section of the music that also consolidates the musical structure without getting the complexity sloppy or uncontrolled. I also create the Density Line and the notation of blowing air into the f-shaped hole of the sound boards of the strings.

This composition is not only a milestone of my study in youth as well as a memory for the past 5-year life (from 2001 to 2006) in Taipei.

Film Noir Sound was written for the Composition for Film and Television Class in February 2009. This is recorded at the orchestral reading by the UCLA Philharmonia.

(Professor / Supervisor: Paul Chihara; Conductor: Henry Shin; Alto Saxophonist: Ryan Weston)