For solo piano
Consists of three preludes; and may be performed separately or as a set.
Duration: c. 11' (I. Droplets - 5' / II. Angular Momentum - 3' / III. Waning Moon - 3')
Composed Dec 2022 - Jan 2023
World premiere (complete set): Performed by Ty Promreuk on 5 March 2024 in Hatch Hall at the Eastman School of Music.
Partial premiere: No. 1 'Droplets' performed by Nattakon Lertwattanaruk on 1 June 2023 at the Sangita Vadhana Hall, Princess Galyani Vadhana Institute of Music. Part of the Princess Galyani Vadhana International Music Festival 2023.
For performance/score inquiries please contact lertwatt.pun@gmail.com
Program notes:
I. Droplets
As the rain begins to fade, water drops are suspended on branches and leaves. The flowers in the meadows prosper, aglow with the shining gold of the sun in the charming spring.
For as long as the world keeps spinning, the sun keeps shining, the flowers keep blooming — we will love, we will live; we will take, we will give.
To exist as mere droplets in the grand scheme of things — it is enlightenment; it is rebirth; it is restraint;
it is catharsis.
II. Angular Momentum
Tick, tick, tick, click, tick tick tick TICK tick click clack tick TICKTICKTICK.
III. Into the Moonless Night
Into dark skies, it lingers on. The candle lights burn dimmer with each blink of an eye. And with each passing moment, I wait for the dawn. But soon enough, moments turn into memories, entrapped in time, and the light fades into the inevitable cloud of the unknown. With each passing moment, it decays, slowly, into the moonless night.