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'RoboDream" for Piano

UNC's Festival on the Hill, Excerpt of "Ex Machina" concert March 2024. Clara Yang Piano, Yili Fan movement artist, Amy Zhang visual artist Phil Young (杨智华）composer “Robo-Daydream” For piano This music was commissioned by pianist Clara Yang for her concert featuring compositions that can relate music to the modern technology, a robot image came up to my mind instantly. Along with the dazzling development of the modern technology, the sophistication of robots is increasingly stunning. Our desire to create robots that resemble us not just with our appearance and intelligence but even our emotions has been reflected in every form of art. This commission gives me a chance to follow the suit. The music is trying to personify such a humanoid robot in a comical way, imaginably human but realistically machinal. The music is introduced with a four-notes-stepwise-ascending motive echoed by a swirling arpeggio chord, the former becomes robo leitmotif for the piece. The first Section is in a style of ragtime which is energetic, nimble yet clumsy and at times repetitious even tedious – everything that characterizes a robot. The middle section is full of fancy but with a little aura of sadness and mystique, a robo daydream which is constantly interrupted by the robotic motive, there is even a sorrowful longing to be a real human but only to be waken up by the daily grind. The following parody begins with a “record needle skipping” effect and continues to unleash into a true chaos - a computer malfunction and robo’s nightmare. A dominant seventh chord regains the control and set the music back to track. A majestic closing section brings the music to the climax with a beckoning of the robo motive fading away – power is running out; a cartoonish passage leads to a thundering cadence that abruptly finishes the robot’s day and concludes the music. Phil Young