Supplemental Information: Episode 7
Is It Over? How Silence Frames Musical Beginnings and Endings in Arvo Pärt’s "Ludus"
Hang Ki Choi (CUNY Graduate Center)
Release Date: Thursday, June 4, 2026
Production Credits
Team Lead: Orit Hilewicz
Production Lead: Jason Jedlicka
Peer Reviewers: Robert Sholl and John Heilig
Music Credits
SMT-Pod Theme Music: Maria Tartaglia
Closing Music: Yike Zhang
Bio: Hang Ki Choi is pursuing a Ph.D. in music theory at the CUNY Graduate Center. She holds a M.M. degree in music theory from the Mannes School of Music and a B.S. degree in Applied Psychology from New York University. She is interested in how musical expectation and tension impact our perception of closure. Hang Ki has presented at the 2024 SMT with Joseph Straus and participated as a panelist at the 2025 AMS/SMT concert on African Pianism. At Mannes, she was awarded the Felix Salzer Techniques of Music Award for academic achievements. She currently teaches at Queens College.
Keywords: Arvo Pärt, silence, beginnings and endings, Tabula Rasa, musical processes