Black Pines (2025)

CA$29.99

for solo viola in three movements (duration 5’10’’)

for solo viola in three movements (duration 5’10’’)

Black Pines

Dedicated to Wednesday Hsu

Black Pines represents the feeling of moving through a dark wood in the oppressive pitch black of night. There is an uncertainty, a discomfort, a nakedness that manifests; one imagines creatures just out of view, a forest full of unseen and menacing life – a shrouded world of hidden animosity.

Moving through black pines, one is struck by the realization that he too has become just another creature, another being, lurking, passing through shadow. This strange, murky kinship is both a reminder of one’s humanity in the face of a dark unknown, but also an uncomfortable confirmation of our collective status as yet another creature, moving blindly through the night.

Recording coming soon.