Karesansui for Orchestra (2018)

"The Japanese rock garden (枯山水, karesansui) or "dry landscape" garden, often called a zen garden, creates a miniature stylized landscape through carefully composed arrangements of rocks, water features, moss, pruned trees and bushes, and uses gravel or sand that is raked to represent ripples in water.'

No alpine hills, no rivers and lakes. To see a world in a grain of sand, use waterless to compare water. In this song, the composer tries to imitate the freehand brushwork of the Karesansui using stones to symbolize the mountains, white sand to symbolize the lake, and lines to represent the water lines to depict the landscape.

Performance:

Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra

Shanghai, China