All Shall Pass (2021)

All Shall Pass is a multimedia work written for alto saxophone and live electronics. Fragments from a hymn that my dad used to sing to me when I was a kid are played by the saxophone, while footage of present-day Hong Kong, recorded on a VHS camcorder, is projected in the background. The flickering video shown at the end of the piece is the image created when the camcorder plays an empty, unrecorded tape. Today will become history, but how we face tomorrow, when nothing seems to be eternal, is what matters.

In October 2024, this work was presented as an art installation in the “Scattered Memories, Gathered Stories” exhibition in Toronto.