Japanese sake can be tasted in various temperatures, and each sake has its own optimum temperature and personality just like there are many different ways of living life and experiencing different types of feelings and expressions.

Pouring Etiquette (2009) explores constant transformations of musical gestures and events depending on different temperatures and situations with sake as a metaphor.  While the musical condition keeps changing its phase by boiling, evaporating, and cooling down, each instrument’s personality also transforms constantly as if searching for its own identity and purpose.

Pouring Etiquette (2009) received 2nd prize award from Via Nova International Composition Competition during XI. Weimarer Frühahrstage für Zeitgenössische Musik 2010. The work is composed in Stockholm and New York during the autumn of year 2009, and is written for Ensemble Marges in Weimar.