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Scoring the Archive: Mother - Yawen Zhang
"It is about the interaction between a mother and her toddler. Hope you feel the mother’s love." - Yawen Zhang
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Scoring the Archive: Baby Baaach - Bradley Yeh
"It should bring you back to when you were a kid going to a zoo, or farm to pet a goat." - Bradley Yeh
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Scoring the Archive: The Halls - Justin Yu
"I wanted to capture the feeling of nostalgia but also mundaneness. Every day we have our routines, and for people who work at the hospital it is oftentimes walking the hallways shown. I wanted to express that through music." - Justin Yu
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Scoring the Archive: A Journey Above - Sunny Wang
"This piece evokes the sensation of flight, the liberation of leaving the world behind. It captures the beauty of a bird's-eye perspective and the weightless freedom of soaring through the air." - Sunny Wang
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Scoring the Archive: Rupture - Yang Xia
"My composition concerns stable systems, disruption of these systems, and future. My composition is any of these simultaneously, same as I and the city of Ann Arbor. My composition is a tower that could be a dystopian one controlling minds, or that of a commercial one hosting a department store, or a communal one providing everyone a bright future." - Yang Xia
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Scoring the Archive: Retrograde - Alex Schulz
"Think everything 80s. Back to the Future, MTV, skating rinks, shoulder pads, big hair... and of course—synth!" - Alex Schulz
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Scoring the Archive: 4600 Volts - Kaes Holkeboer
"A 1940's generator in an ice making plant, damaged by a bolt of lightning. What an interesting story! With my composition, I wanted to express the elemental power of lightning and electricity and the danger of sitting inside and fiddling with the guts of a powerful machine. This piece includes electric guitar, field recordings of ice breaking, and other heavy, distorted sounds inspired by industrial music." - Kaes Holkeboer
Artificial Ice Company Generator Repaired, May 1948
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Scoring the Archive: Wistful Ruins - Tingqi Liu
"This work is meant to capture feelings of wistfulness, bittersweetness, and despair as one watches, in the rain, the aftermath of a demolition. What was originally standing is unknown. What is known is the weight of memories and unspoken stories lingering in the air. My composition echoes the contemplation of what once was, and what might have been. Yet, amidst the melancholy, there are undertones of resilience and the determination to find beauty in the demolished." - Tingqi Liu
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Scoring the Archive: A Pumpkin's Tale - Samuel Fang
"What the photo I chose immediately reminded me of is how many of the holidays we celebrate feel so much more fantastical as a child, when our imaginations are more boundless and our emotions more spontaneous. Halloween for me as a kid had an almost dreamlike quality, with fantastical playfulness mixed with times when I was genuinely scared. I wanted to capture this feeling in my composition- how things that seem mundane to us now could have evoked both happiness and fear when we were younger." - Samuel Fang
Emmett Cox & Carl Carter Finish Constructing 'Big Fat Pumpkin Man' At Bach School, October 1965
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Scoring the Archive: Fabulous Fourth Fairground - Darla Hand
"I was particularly interested in this photo depicting a popular community event in my hometown, Whitmore Lake, before my time. As someone who has been involved in many activities during the 4th of July, I found a lot of nostalgia in this joy-filled moment. I have always played music in our town's parade and attended the annual fireworks show like most members of our community, however, one of the best parts has been hearing stories about the traditions over the decades. I aimed to capture the feeling from the late 1980s that transports you back as a kid walking into the fairground with fresh popcorn popping and screams radiating off the rides." - Darla Hand