The Awakening
The Awakening
is a ten-movement suite, loosely modeled after the structure of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, which OHNomad lists among his most influential works. The suite unfolds as a series of vivid soundscapes, each representing a world within the mind’s infinite reflection.
The tale of The Awakening unfolds as a soul venture into a hypnotic journey, drifting seamlessly between realms of consciousness and unconsciousness. As his senses fully awaken, he is carried across multiverses, each a fragment of an infinite reflection. In a fleeting moment, he stands before another version of himself—both familiar and unknown. A silent, ineffable sensation sparks the genesis of an odyssey beyond time, beyond space, beyond self.
Beyond the Cycle
contemplates the eternal rhythm of creation and dissolution. Inspired by Buddhist philosophy, it reflects on illusion and awakening: All appearances are illusions; form is emptiness; neither arising nor ceasing. Through meditative harmonies and fluid motion, the music traces the journey of a stone — born in the earth’s depths, tempered by fire, washed by tides, and lifted to the mountain peak. Each transformation reveals the oneness of all things. To see a single flower is to see the universe — to hear this piece is to sense the infinite within the ephemeral.
River Lethe
In Greek mythology, the River Lethe is the stream of forgetfulness that flows through the underworld. Souls who drink from it lose all memory of their earthly lives before reincarnation. In this solo piano work, OHNomad transforms that myth into a meditative journey through remembrance and oblivion. Mirroring the soul’s oscillation between forgetting and remembrance, the music alternates between whole-tone harmonies, symbolizing dissolution and timelessness, and pentatonic melodies, evoking nostalgia and human tenderness.
The Awakening II
The Awakening II is a solo piano piece which will be the first theme variation of a ten-movement suite, continue the soul ventures into a hypnotic journey, drifting seamlessly between realms of consciousness and unconsciousness.
Composer: Owens Huang
Piano: Chi-Jo Lee