Congratulations! Professor Yu Chung Tseng's electronic music work "Fantasy Variations for a Wooden Peg" (2024) won the Honorable Mention Award in the 2025 Iannis Xenakis International Electronic music Competition.
Competition official website：https://xenakis.web.auth.gr/results/
Works Link：https://soundcloud.com/yuchung-tseng/fantasy-variations-on-a-wooden
Fantasy Variations for a Wooden Peg
The creation of this work was drawn from composer's memory of childhood.
When he was a child, while he was crying, suffering, or in a restless state, his mother
would turn the wooden pegs(https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DHiu2gUKPZE8eree2Jg-
02NfoqmVOyQ/view?usp=sharing) on the bed to create some sounds to attract
his attention to let him calm down! The main function of wooden pegs installed on
bed is to hang the clothes while sleeping. But if you use different strength to poke it or
turn it in , it can make interesting sounds like birds chirping, doors squeezing, or even
piercing screams.
Based on this bedside memory, the composer recorded the sound of wooden peg
on the 60-years old ancient bed. Just like his mother, he improvised on this
installation, trying to create various possible sounds, even a sound art piece. Those
recorded sonic clips were then manipulated through the technique similar to
“developing variation” to work out all the possibilities of transformation of the
material.The processed sounds were then “organized”(in E. Varèse’s word) or
“digital micro-montaged”(in H. Vaggione’s word) to build up a musical composition
with artistic interests which may bring endless and fantastic imagination to the
listener.Fantasy Variations for a Wooden Peg was created and finished at the Sound
Lab at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University(NYCU) in Taiwan on October of
2024.