Claire Chase - Density 2036, Pt. 8 (2023) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Virtuoso flutist Claire Chase continues her laudable documentation of her multi-year commissioning project, Density 2036, with digital release of newly premiered works from 2021. Featuring pathbreaking music for flute, in solo, electro-acoustic, and chamber settings, by composers Ann Cleare, Wang Lu, and Matana Roberts (including two versions of a work incorporating improvisation by Roberts), Density 2021 highlights new flute repertoire that embraces current aesthetic considerations in new music with invention and creative enthusiasm.

In her 2021 iteration of her ambitious commissioning project, Density 2036, Claire Chase invited three composers with unique voices to write new works, Matana Roberts, Wang Lu, and Ann Cleare. The three electro-acoustic works are varied in impact and aesthetic, but share a transportive quality, bringing the listener inside sonic spaces the composers have created specifically for these pieces.

In Auricular Hearsay, composer and multi-media artist Matana Roberts turned their attention to the mind states of performers. An interest in neurodivergent brain and thought patterns led Roberts to create a multimedia score that allowed visual and auditory information to interact with each other and guide performers through their own unique realizations of the piece (every performance is by design different). In particular, Roberts was interested in facilitating non-linear thinking, framing an open improvisation experience. Chase’s performance, with collaborators Susie Ibarra on percussion and Senem Perler on live electronics, is searching and patient, mining a range of timbral and expressive areas for hidden gems and allowing the momentum of the work to ebb and flow to energetic peaks and contemplative valleys.

TRACKLIST

1. Claire Chase - Auricular Hearsay (First Version)
2. Claire Chase - Aftertouch
3. Claire Chase - anfa
4. Claire Chase - Auricular Hearsay (Second Version)



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