title

nejimakiHaruki

year of composition

2025

duration

10′

written

with support from the ARTZenter Institute

instrumentation

1(=picc).1.1.1-1.1.1.1-perc(2):rat／gui／cym／mar／sd／slap／2tom／vib／mtr／crt-hp-pf-4.3.3.3.1

performance

• september 5, 2025 | herbst theatre, san francisco, united states

san francisco contemporary music players

eric dudley · conductor

program note

nejimakiHaruki (wind-up Haruki) is inspired by the world of Haruki Murakami, where the familiar rhythms of everyday life are woven together with memory, chance, and fate, giving rise to moments that feel at once uncanny. At the center of the piece is the sound of “winding,” produced by the guiro and ratchet, like a key turning to open a vast, imaginary music box. With each turn, fragments of memory and sudden shifts in perspective spill out, blurring the boundaries between the real and the unreal. Through this sound, the work captures the breadth of Murakami’s universe: time folding back on itself, encounters that seem both destined and fleeting, and the everyday quietly drifting into the surreal.