Places I Call Home: East Bay, CA; China
Musical Influences: Film, Video Game, Classical
Lost Halloween
This is a short film about two trick-or-treaters that I scored
Video Game Background Music
This is a sampling of a variety of background music you may find in a videogame
Places I Call Home: San Francisco, CA.
Musical Influences: Minimalism, Western esotericism, Julia Wolfe, Terry Riley, Scriabin
Air for D and B
Air for D and B is a meditation on long distance friendship that utilizes synthesized sound and samples to convey time and physical distance
Places I Call Home: San Francisco, CA; Cuba
Musical Influences: A bit of everything, but mainly classical music since the 1820s (Romanticism).
String Quartet No. 1 "The Fair" - I.
This is the first movement in to my string quartet in D major - it was inspired by the chamber works of Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms, and Dvorak.
Places I Call Home: SF Bay Area, CA
Musical Influences: Renaissance music, Classical, Contemporary Classical, film scores, jazz, blues, rock, orchestral music.
Why Do We Fight?
This piece is a musical contemplation on conflict in human nature. Performed by Splinter Reeds.
Places I Call Home: Bay Area, CA
Musical Influences: RnB, Rock, Pop, Electronic/Ambient. Bay Area has a wide variety of music styles and sounds that exist and that sort of blurs lines between styles.
As for Poets
As for Poets is a piece in three parts, each one a different element (Space, Water, Air) based on the poem As for Poets by Gary Snyder.
Places I Call Home: San Ramon, CA; San Francisco, CA; Gujurat, India
Musical Influences: Hip-hop, R&B, Bollywood
Scoreboard
A reflection of how I've been feeling in life, one at my lowest points and one at my highest euphorias. Vocals by Shagun Sharma.
Places I Call Home: Sacramento/Elk Grove, CA; Bay Area, CA
Musical Influences: Stevie Wonder, Soul, and doo-wop; Kendrick Lamar, noname Gypsy, Big L, Hip-Hop and Rap; Nina Simone, Mingus, Doug Raney, Jazz; my friends and music community that I jam with
Chamorro
Theme and variations based of the history of the Marianas Islands from Spanish disturbance to World War 2 to current day and was was created using Chamorro folk culture, personal understandings of jazz theory, and the raw emotion of learning my cultural history as an Americanized and disconnected Chamorro man. Performed by the Astraeus String Quartet
Places I Call Home: Richmond, CA
Musical Influences: Ryuichi Sakamoto, Multi-genre/ Neo-classical/ Soundtrack, Lili Boulanger, Symbolist/ Impressionist
String Quartet No.1
This through composed vignette was inspired by stories of high and low fantasy and serves as an exploration of melodic themes, colors, and string writing in a chamber setting. Performed by the Astreaus String Quartet
Places I Call Home: Colton, CA
Musical Influences: Film scores, from Star Wars to Interstellar. Deftones, Polyphia.
Resilience
This piece was heavily influenced by my daily struggle with facing life. Some take for granted the simplicity of things perceived as necessity by society. Performed by Travis Brass
Places I Call Home: East Bay/SF, South Africa, England, Scotland
Musical Influences: JS Bach, church hymns, Afrikaans folk and popular music, South African music
Bid vir Mieliepap
This piece is inspired by mealtimes in South Africa (particularly "mieliepap", which is a maize porridge), including a prayer, followed by feelings of communal warmth and chaotic togetherness of the meal itself. Performed by MANA Saxophone Quartet
Places I Call Home: Oakland, CA; Gardena, CA; Santa Cruz, CA; Waltham, MA; Gallion, AL; Abilene, TX
Musical Influences: Birds, Tractors, Bach, Animals As Leaders, Jacob Mann Big Band, Lamb Of God, Nursery Rhymes, Debussy, Erik Satie, East and West Coast Hip Hop, The Mars Volta, Hector Berlioz, Ernesto Nazareth
Lucy
Every piece of music I write is my attempt at processing reality as I am experiencing it in the moments leading up to my playing/notating the 1st note, and I share it because of moments I've had with music that have shaped the person I am very glad to be becoming every day.
Places I Call Home: San Jose, Los Angeles, CA; Shanghai China
Musical Influences: Nature, Sci-fi films scores, video games, Bartok, Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Ligeti, Arvo Pärt, John Luther Adams
Illuminated
Places I Call Home: Hayward CA; China
Musical Influences: Hip-hop, RnB
Soul Funky
Places I Call Home: Concord, CA
Musical Influences: Baroque and Classical music, J.S. Bach, Classical guitar music, Fernando Sor, Francisco Tarrega
String Quartet No.1
Written in Sonata form as a way for me to learn and understand that important way to structure music. Performed by the straus String Quartet
Places I Call Home: Richmond, CA
Musical Influences: Arnold Schoenberg, Igor Stravinsky, Béla Bartók, George Crumb, Hans Zimmer
23
"23" is a 12 tone piece that focuses on the temporal nature of sound in space. Performed by Divesh Karamchandani, Irene Change, Rio Nickerson, Darrell Enero, Timothy Lovelace