Austin YIP: "Miles Upon Miles" (2018) [Live performance at NYCEMF]

Live video of Austin Yip's "Miles Upon Miles" (2018), New York City.
Patrick YIM, violin
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Video taken from live performance at the New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival, July 18, 2018.
Miles Upon Miles (2018) was commissioned and premiered by violinist Patrick Yim. Premiere given at the Hong Kong Museum of History, January 2018. Score published by Donemus Publishing: tinyurl.com/y58hprjb.
As a composer and multimedia artist, Austin Yip’s works investigate the relationship between literature and sound, as well as the meaning of connotation and denotation through musical and visual means. Recent works include “Koto” (2019), a chamber theatre work inspired by Yasunari Kawabata’s novel of the same title; “City Beats” (2019), a work for harpsichord, electronics and video that challenges musical connotation; “Miles Upon Miles” (2018), a work for amplified violin and electronics that juxtaposes violin and Xinjiang Uyghur Muqam; “Project ‘Ballet de la nuit’: Eurydice” (2017), an hour-long electroacoustic work that investigates on the 17th century’s cross-casting tradition; and “Metamorphosis” (2016), an orchestral work that portrays Kafka’s novel musically.
Frequently presented at musical festivals, Yip’s works have been performed worldwide, examples include the ISCM World New Music Days (Beijing 2018, Sydney 2010), New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival (2018), Seoul International Computer Music Festival (2018), Asian Composers League Conference and Festival (Japan 2010/2017, Vietnam 2016, Singapore 2014), World Saxophone Congress (France 2015, Scotland 2012), Intimacy of Creativity (2012) and many more.
Yip is a MacDowell Colony Fellow (as a Gardner & Veil Read Fellow), and also the recipient of CASH Golden Sail Music Award, Chou’s Annual Composition Commission Award, James Kitagawa Memorial Music Scholarship, Regents’ and Chancellor’s Scholarship, Henry Holbrook Scholarship, James King Scholarship, Eisner Prize, Milton C. Witzel Memorial Prize, University Postgraduate Fellowship, Rayson Huang Scholarship and CASH Best Commissioned Piece Award. Yip received his master and doctorate degree in music composition at the University of Hong Kong, and a bachelor degree at the University of California, Berkeley.
Yip’s works are published by Donemus (Netherlands), ABRSM (UK), BabelScores (France), Ablaze Records (US), Navona Records (US), Hugo Production and Hong Kong Composers Guild. He is currently a lecturer at the Hong Kong Baptist University.