Program Note

Focus is initially inspired from the focusing techniques that photographers use. This piece expresses various moments of focuses that occur from the moments that are out of focused. In other words, the music itself implies blurry and vague atmosphere that is contrasted by the sharp and clear atmosphere. When we look at the world through the lense of camera, depending on where you focus on, what you see and how you see are always different. The composer took the meaning of focus as a different point of view. Therefore, she intended this piece Focus to be a camera lense that is belonged to every audience’s mind.

Looking at the whole piece in larger perspective, music starts from blurry atmosphere (out of focus), then gradually move onto clear and sharp atmosphere (in focus), and go back to vague moment at the end. There are some points of transition that the two contrasting features pass their baton. However, this piece contains many different dramatic points as well, in order to make audience imagine their own world during listening this piece.