D.M.A. final project--Department of Music, Stanford University, 1999. / For sampled and computer modified violin sounds, violoncello with microphone (or electronic violoncello), and piano with microphone. Includes abstract and notes on instruments and equipment, compositional and technical processes, and CLM (Common Lisp Music).

Inspired by Chinese poems, the overall characteristics of the work reflect the assimilation of several non-Western musical and philosophical influences such as the use of pentatonic scale patterns, the principle of embellishing a single note, and the application of the I-Ching in dealing with active instrumental passages over a long-sustained computer music drone. Traditional Western compositional techniques such as aleatory counterpoint, serialism, and moment form are also employed in the treatment of thematic material, developmental processes and formal design.