Electric Counterpoint (2009) for Nintendo gameboy, electronics and orchestra by Samson Young. Approximately 10 mins. Premiere: Hong Kong Sinfonietta, at the 2009 Hong Kong Arts Festival, City Hall, Hong Kong. Commissioned by the Hong Kong Sinfonietta, with support from the CASH Music Fund. [Listen to full recording] DOWNLOAD MY FLYING MARIO SCREEN SAVERS FOR FREE! (MAC OS tiger and above only) I made some videos to go with the piece with Xcode and Quartz Composer, but I couldn't use them at the performance because of copyright issues. Well, they still make for very cute screen savers. Click on the icons to download the file, then put them into your screen savers folder. REVIEW "It was clever, bright, and engaging with an almost American sheen...The Game Boy sounds paired well with strings, and add a haunting element to the piano, along with tolling bells." - Nick Frisch, Time Out Hong Kong "The piece unfolded with driving buoyancy...It was playful and entertaining." - Ken Smith, Financial Times
		Hong Kong Explodes (2008), multi-media music theatre for electric guitar quartet, video and electronics. Music and video by Samson Young. Additional video by Adrian Yeung. Approximately 70 mins. Premiere: DITHER quartet at Player's Theatre, New York. Supported by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council. [Launch project website] REVIEW "...there's something going on in the music that touches on the utopian promise of electricity, distance, aura, etc. Odysseus is the scene it calls to mind - the sirens, the intersection of impossible beauty and unbearable noise, the covering of ears, the declensions of coloration hidden in the cracks of the all-around sound as in the untouchable cracks of the smudging neon, the watery distance from the sound source, the pain when it is brought closer to the ear... J. S. Bach came out sounding like a transcription of urban Chinese lifeways... I was quite touched by it all." - Martin Scherzinger, Associate Professor, Department of Media, Culture and Communication, New York University Presented by: Supported by:
		Roxy. New York (2007) for amplified string quartet, electronics and video. Music by Samson Young, video by Christopher Lau. Approximately 13 minutes. Premiere: Olivia De Prato, Eric Clark, William Lane and John Popham, at Taplin Auditorium, Princeton University. [Listen to full recording] REVIEW "...It was epic, dark, and fun." - Galen Brown, Sequenza 21
		Ageha. Tokyo (2007) for amplified violin, electronics and video. Music and video by Samson Young. Approximately 5 minutes 30 seconds. Premiere: Olivia De Prato, at Otto Edelmann Hall, Vienna. [Listen to full recording] REVIEW "Over and over, a nervously unstable play of string and electronics suddenly refracts into hopefully radiant textures." - Steve Layton, Sequenza 21
		Efflorescentric Aftermath (2007) for clarinet, electronics and video. Music by Samson Young, video by Ron Lam. Approximately 8 minutes. Premiere: Eileen Mack, at Taplin Auditorium, Princeton University. [Listen to full recording]
		Ritual Machine (2004) for six voices by Samson Young. Approximately 7 minutes. Premiere: Sydney Song Company conducted by Roland Peelman, at the Tura Scale Variable Series, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth. A part of the 2004 MODART Project.
		This is an excerpt from Medi-C (2008), a contemporary dance theatre by Hong Kong choreographer Daniel Yeung. Music and sound design by Samson Young.
		This is an excerpt from Metalove (2005), a contemporary dance theatre by Hong Kong choreographer Daniel Yeung. The music used in this section of the dance was an old composition of mine, dating from my undergraduate years.
		05.2009 // I Give You a Transparent Wonderland (12:00) // for string orchestra, video and electronics // Premiere: City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong, at the 2009 Le French May Arts Festival, City Hall, Hong Kong 2009. Commissioned by the City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong, with support from the CASH Music Fund. (UPCOMING - check back soon for recording) 04.2009 // Fractured Atlas (7:00) // for string trio, clarinet, horn and piano // Premiere: NASH Ensemble, New Jersey 2009. LISTEN TO FRACTURED ATLAS 03.2009 // When He Said (10:00) // for female voices, piano, vibraphone and electronics, text by Madeleine Marie Slavik // Premiere: Student Chorus, the Student Union of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2009. LISTEN TO WHEN HE SAID 02.2009 // Electric Counterpoing (10:00) // for Nintendo gameboy, electronics and orchestra // Premiere: Hong Kong Sinfonietta, at the 2009 Hong Kong Arts Festival, City Hall, Hong Kong 2009. Commissioned by the Hong Kong Sinfonietta, with support from the CASH Music Fund. LISTEN TO ELECTRIC COUNTERPOINT 10.2008 // Hong Kong Explodes (70:00) // music theatre for electric guitar quartet, video and electronics; music and video by Samson Young, additional video by Adrian Yeung // Premiere: DITHER quartet at Player's Theatre, New York 2008. Supported by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council. GO TO PROJECT WEBSITE 04.2008 // Afterglow (8:00) // for orchestra and electronics // Premiere: Hong Kong Sinfonietta, City Hall, Hong Kong 2009. Commissioned by the Hong Kong Sinfonietta, with support from the CASH Music Fund. LISTEN TO AFTERGLOW
		04.2007 // Roxy. New York (13:00) // for amplified string quartet, electronics, video; music by Samson Young, video by Christopher Lau // Premiere: Olivia De Prato, Eric Clark, William Lane, John Popham, New York and New Jersey 2007. LISTEN TO ROXY. NEW YORK 03.2007 // Ageha. Tokyo (5:30) // for amplified violin, electronics, video; music and video by Samson Young // Premiere: Olivia De Prato, Vienna 2007. LISTEN TO AGEHA. TOKYO 03.2007 // Efflorescentric Aftermath (8:00) // for clarinet, electronics, video; music by Samson Young, video by Ron Lam // Premiere: NEWSPEAK Ensemble featuring Eileen Mack, New Jersey 2007. LISTEN TO EFFLORESCENTRIC AFTERMATH 01.2007 // Midnight Shift. Sydney (4:00) // for percussion quartet, electronics, live audio processing // Premiere: SO Percussion, New Jersey 2007. LISTEN TO MIDNIGHT SHIFT. SYDNEY 12.2006 // Efflorescentric Rave (5:30) // for flute, clarinet, piano, electric guitar, double bass, electronics, video; music by Samson Young, video by Ron Lam // Premiere: NOW Ensemble, New Jersey 2007. LISTEN TO EFFLORESCENTRIC RAVE
		10.2006 // Sigh Study (3:00) // for bass clarinet, piano // Premiere: Tim Smith and Samson Young, Atlantic Center for the Arts, Florida 2006. LISTEN TO SIGH STUDY 10.2006 // Sonic Calligraphy II: Fou (8:00) // for flute, oboe, clarinet, bass clarinet, percussion, 2 violins, viola, cello, piano. 09.2006 // Sonic Calligraphy I: Wu (2:00) // for flute, oboe, clarinet, alto sax, bass clarinet, percussion (crotales and rain stick), 2 violins, viola, cello, piano // Premiere: TACTUS, New Jersey 2006. LISTEN TO WU 09.2006 // Resonance Study IV (2:30) // for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, bass drum // Premiere: New Millennium Ensemble, New Jersey 2006. LISTEN TO RESONANCE STUDY IV 04.2006 // Resonance Study I, II & III (1:00, 1:00 and 3:30) // for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, crotales // Premiere: Network for New Music, New Jersey 2006. LISTEN TO RESONANCE STUDY I | LISTEN TO RESONANCE STUDY II | LISTEN TO RESONANCE STUDY III 10.2005 // Line Study I & II (2:00 and 2:30) // for viola, cello, 5 tibetan singing bowls, crotales // Premiere: Musicarama Contemporary Music Festival, Hong Kong 2005. LISTEN TO LINE STUDY I | LISTEN TO LINE STUDY II
		04.2006 // Memory Theatre III: The Bell and the Nightingale (6:00) // for clarinet, violin, piano // Premiere: SUNY Stony Brook, New York 2006. 10.2005 // Memory Theatre II: How Perfumes Are Transmitted by Feathery Telegraph (7:00) // for orchestra and offstage woodwinds // Premiere: Hong Kong Sinfonietta, City Hall, Hong Kong 2005. A part of Project Viva Sinfonietta. LISTEN TO HOW PERFUMES ARE TRANSMITTED BY FEATHERY TELEGRAPH 08.2005 // Memory Theatre I: That Dolphin-torn, that Gong-tormented Sea (10:00) // for clarinet, offstage horn, piano, cello // Premiere: Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, Massachusetts 2005. LISTEN TO EXCERPT 1 | LISTEN TO EXCERPT 2 04.2005 // Theatre of Otherness: Book III - Ritual Machine (10:00) // for 6 voices SSABTB // Premiere: TURA Scale Variable Concert Series, Sydney Song Company, Perth 2005. LISTEN TO EXCERPT 1 | LISTEN TO EXCERPT 2 07.2004 // Theatre of Otherness: Book II - Out of the Water, Out of Itself (10:00) // for baritone (mezzo soprano), oboe, cello, harp // Comissioned by the City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong, Premiere: Bowdoin International Music Festival, Maine 2004. LISTEN TO EXCERPT 1 | LISTEN TO EXCERPT 2 07.2004 // Deep and Dissolving Verticals of Light (3:00) // for solo piano // Premiere: Adrian Lam, Hong Kong 2004. LISTEN TO EXCERPT 03.2004 (revised 2006) // Theatre of Otherness: Book I - ...But My Mother Weeps Rich Black Tears (12:00) // for mezzo soprano, piano, giying (from Balinese gamelan) or vibraphone, narrator // Premiere: Hong Kong 2004. LISTEN TO EXCERPT 1 | LISTEN TO EXCERPT 2