Aphorisms
Zulkifli Mohamed AMIN (b.1983)
A
tersely phrased statement of general truth or fundamental principle usually
expressed sententiously.
Aphorisms;
not strictly programmatic music but rather an organised ambiguous musical
interpretation of struggle, tension, fear and the secrets of creation of human
being with regards to mother nature and the creator. This is an attempt to set
up an imaginative scenario into a musical work indeed.
A fantasy-composition (my
first major approach), the music is divided perhaps into three sections.
It was my primary intention to have a three-movement structure but soon
abandoned it into a single uninterrupted whole. With this I can create a smooth
momentum throughout without having to rebuild tension, atmosphere and climax at
every movement or section.
It
was also intentional to create ambiguity in the creation of my music, usually
unexplainable in order to allow my listener to freely associate.
I try not to be restricted by compositional ideas (as what it should turn
out to be, eventually) but to reach the highest degree of individual
imagination...
Aphorisms
is dedicated to The Late Brother Joseph McNally-Founder of LASALLE-SIA college
of the Arts.
* notes from composer