Eliott Carter was an American composer, whose personal harmonic and rhythmic language led to the invention of the term metric modulation. The latter describes frequent, precise tempo changes. In David Schiff's book "The Music of Elliott Carter", it is written that Elliott Carter preferred to call it tempo modulation.
The personal experience that become the basis for Yong Soon
Min’s dwellings is her experience of having her family to be relocated in the
United States in which became or pushed her into dwelling as her family has
been relocated.
