• Du Yun
  • Air Glow (2006)

  • G Schirmer Inc (World)

Commissioned by the Festival of New Trumpet Music (FONT), 2006

  • pictpt in B-flat, 3tpt, flg, [egtr], electronics
  • 15 min

Programme Note

Composer note

the heart evokes an air glow
that never goes dark wholly


In an age when despair, desolation, and wretchedness become the norm, so evolves our acquainted aesthetic taste. And yet it is splashes of sudden glances to the often neglected splendors that left us entranced, that make us confronted to the deformity of any elaborated vindication, to the melt-down of tactics.

[air glow: light emitted from the upper layers of the atmosphere of Earth, or of another planet.]

— Du Yun

Media

Miller Theatre Portrait Concert