Filipino composer and scholar Paul Cosme blends and breaks boundaries in his constant search
for home.
Recent Projects
A Filipino in New York
for the JACK Studio
Sarimanok and the Seven Moons
for 37-reed sheng, 21-string koto, violin, and bass clarinet
Face Out Phase Out
for Sugar Hill Salon at Connecticut Summerfest
Song of the Wanderer
for amplified soprano and mixed metal rock ensemble
Being at the interstices of his native Philippines, its diaspora, and
its neighbors to
the East and the West,
Paul’s works seek to make connections and elucidate shared histories between various cultures and communities that
he has since called his home.
Paul composes music that helps him come to terms with what home means to him.
He paints his experiences in sound by blending music traditions from his homes
in different points in his life in Southeast Asia, Europe, and the United States,
cutting through genres of classical, jazz, pop & rock, and traditional world musics.