Duration: 4 minutes and 40 seconds
     
                             

      Performances:                        
                                                                
                  Oct 11, 2004       Composers' Forum (Ann Arbor, MI)--World Premiere
                  Nov 13, 2004      Threshold Festival (Muncie, IN)
                  Mar 12, 2005      Merging Voices: Women's Electroacoustic Listening Room (Fullerton, CA)
                  Apr 9, 2005        Los Angeles Sonic Odyssey (Los Angeles, CA)
                  Oct 22, 2005       Electronic Music Midwest (Kansas, KS)

        Program note:   

In the early April of 2003, there was an ice storm in Rochester, NY.  Growing up in Taiwan, where it only snows in some high mountains, I was very surprised and amazed to see everything covered with ice.  The world seemed frozen, and the time seemed stopped.  Trees looked extremely shining and beautiful under the lights.  However, while looking at this fantastic scene, I realized that this incredibly stunning scene was made by suffocating the trees, and some tremendous strength from inside of the trees was going to explode and break this icy bondage.