Night Ghost

Night Ghost (夜魅 Ye Mei) is an orchestral transcription of an imaginary myth. In Chinese, Mei 【魅】means a ghost of the mountain. For this piece, I was imagining how the mountain that’s ruled by a ghost would look like at night. The music focuses on two elements: the loud chordal passages and the quiet wind music passage. My musical background was largely influenced by both Western music (German and Russian) and Eastern music (Chinese, Japanese and Korean). In this piece, the chordal passages are from what I leaned through Western tradition. The wind passage and the percussion passage, each representing the sound of nature and the sound of celebration, are from my Eastern background.