Rachel C. Walker writes poetic, timbre-sensitive works drawing from her ongoing immersion in and research on Chinese folk music, musical time, and language. Her music has been heard
on Deutschlandfunk (Atelier Neuer Musik) and SWR2, as well
as during Festival Mujeres en la Música Nueva, PASIC,
Hangzhou Contemporary Music Festival, Kuandu Arts Festival, Svensk Musikvår, Kalv Festivalen, Sound of Stockholm, Warsaw Autumn, Bludenzer Tage zeitgemäßer Musik, Festival de Royaumont, Beethovenfest Bonn, Unerhörte Musik, Sommer
in Stuttgart and Tage Neuer Musik Regensburg.
Recent commissions include pieces for Radio France, Trio Abstrakt, Ensemble Temporum, airborne extended and
Ensemble Ascolta. Rachel has held residencies at the Banff Centre for the Arts and Creativity, Britten-Pears Arts and Elektronmusikstudion EMS, and was a Fellow (Aural/Physical)
to the Akademie Schloss Solitude in 2022.
The residency at EMS will be spent working on realizing the electronics for two upcoming works for solo percussion.
"Closing in on” is a multi-movement piece for prepared yangqin, objects and electronics, centered around a poem by the Shenzhen poet Ruan Xuefang. “Gone with the rainy season
雨季不再來”, a work for speaking percussionist and electronics with text from the writer/interdisciplinary artist Autumn Tsai, is connected to the life of the 20th century travel writer San Mao. Both pieces will be performed during the 2024 season by percussionists Allen Otte and Shiau-Shiuan Hung, respectively.
Photo by Anton Avdieiev
