Overwhelm - Yong-Zheng Yueh

The piece starts with a gentle and pure high pitch, introducing the main theme with a simple accompaniment paired with syncopated rhythms and slightly dissonant chords, providing a relaxed yet not monotonous auditory experience. This theme is repeated in a lower octave before quickly transitioning into the second section. The second section uses repetitive patterns and layering for variation, with a tight and fast pace building up intensity.

This builds up to the second section's main melody, again repeated with slight changes in the left hand, adding some glissandos to color the otherwise simple structure and gradually pushing the emotions to a peak. Rapid ascending and descending clusters in the left hand, paired with right-hand embellishments, fill the heart with growing emotions until the limit is reached.

After a brief silence, the powerful clusters played with the arm represent the outburst of emotions, all flowing out like an emotional catharsis. The last section gradually calms down as the mood and time adjust.

Returning to a theme similar to the first section but with a hint of jazz, the ending's gradually disappearing tremolo suggests worries fading away and inner peace. Despite the clear contrast between the gentle beginning and the intense latter parts, they both aim to present the tension of the notes and express the overflowing emotions, repeatedly hinting at the audience's near-breaking point. Like a glass of water gradually filling up and teetering on the edge because of surface tension, it is named "Overwhelm".