Instrumentation: alto saxophone and electronics
Premiere: by Jack thorpe, at the experimental music studios Concert, University of illinois Urbana-champaign, urbana, Il, april 28, 2023.
Duration: c. 12’30” (I. 4’10” II. 8’20”)
Technical requirements: 1 Laptop, 1 MIDI sustain pedal, 1 microphone,
1 audio interface
a collaboration with composer and sound designer Victor Zheng on live electronics
Commissioned by and written for Jack Thorpe, the Theodore Presser Foundation via the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 2022 Presser Graduate Music Award.
I. Blue air
II. TRACES
I. Blue Air
Liann J. Kang
The flickering image of bursting air
Intertwined with sounds around us
Sounds that bring out memories
Voices that call out to us
Nostalgia about a place that we have never been to
II. Traces
Fog rising out of a swamp
Movements leaving lines behind
Tinging a space with dusky gradients
Liann J. Kang 
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