Lesley Mok's stilled leaf-chatter emerges from the improvisational sensibilities of violinist edi kwon, pianist Cory Smythe, and guitarist Dan Lippel. The piece is an attempt to find a poetic resonance in the simultaneity of individual expressions.

hologram: becoming visible to myself creates an environment in which various sonic artifacts from my life are presented in relationship to one another. Drawing upon Jacques Lacan’s mirror stage theory that describes how infants learn to identify emerging perceptions of selfhood, the artifacts create a hologram of my life and project a self to whom this image is recognizable. Hologram is a refusal to accept feelings of fragmentation and alienation within myself and attempts to create unity between the self that I see and my mirror image.

Commissioned by International Contemporary Ensemble