In late May of 2021, the remains of 215 indigenous children were discovered at a former Canadian residential school site. Struck by this news among many other horrid and violent events since the pandemic had started, I wrote Cloud Lullaby in an utmost personal manner. The piece is a literal lullaby, an elegy dedicated to the indigenous children as well as those who lost their lives during the pandemic. It is also a personal reflection and meditation on life and suffering at difficult times.

—Alison Yun-Fei Jiang