Singularity (2020) for solo alto saxophone
Performances
2022
Composition Student Concert
College of Music, Mahidol University
Jing Hong Lim
2021 (Premiere)
Soundbites: Expert Interpreter
Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music
Andreas Marinello
Singularity revolves around the idea of exploiting the many possibilities that one single tone, C, has to offer. At the same time, the Fibonacci sequence is used as a tribute to the contributions of great scientists of Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking, where their theories about gravity and black holes (singularities) have changed the course of physics and mathematics in the past 50 years. As the centre of a black hole is a gravitational singularity, the one-dimensional point contains a huge mass in an infinitely small space. From this concept, I explored the basis of one single note, where it contains a huge potential for expression in different ways. While the piece starts out expressing a singular note in a conventional way through the repetition of a note. Other approaches are then slowly explored such as addition of neighbour tones, variation of vibrato speeds, distortion through multiphonics, and also bisbigliando.