After a long preparation, I have arrived in Berlin to start my residency in Berlin for one year. The city, people, language—in fact, almost everything is unfamiliar to me, which is great because the main project that I will be working on here in Berlin is a DVD-Audio project that includes a series of electroacoustic pieces that are tightly intertwined by the theme of Places and Imaginations.

I have carefully devised a plan which I am very excited about. While designing the overall scheme of the project, I felt as if I were  not a composer, but a writer.

Quite frankly, I get much more inspirations from books and stories of writers (Milan Kundera, Italo Calvino, Jorge Luis Borges, and Edward S. Casey, etc.) than music. It is, in a sense, understandable; at this point of the compositional process, I am gathering materials, both technical and aesthetic. Composing pieces and getting closer to details are another matter.