Claire Chase is perhaps the flute’s most imaginative living advocate, alexrossmusic writes.
The flute is the oldest of instruments, its recoverable history going back some forty thousand years. Prehistoric humans fashioned flutes, pipes, and whistles from the bones of birds and other animals. There is no way of knowing what this music sounded like or what purpose it served. Did it speak of love? Tribe? Nature? God? One unsettling bit of evidence is that the first known flutes were made from the remains of creatures that had been hunted and killed.
Chase, who is forty-three, grew up in a musical home in Leucadia, California, a seaside community north of San Diego. She became fixated on the flute in childhood, and at the age of thirteen she had a life-altering encounter with “Density 21.5,” Edgard Varèse’s 1936 soliloquy for flute, after which her series is named. Short in duration, cosmic in scope, “Density 21.5” transforms the flute into a luminous vessel of abstraction.
The Kitchen concert included three new scores, an excerpt from “Sex Magic,” and a reprise of “Density 21.5.” The first première, “Aftertouch,” was by Wang Lu, who has won notice for exuberantly overloaded music that mimics the delirium of digital life. Her piece begins with field recordings of city noise, punchy electronic beats, and jittery flurries of activity on the flute. A sequence of repeating units—times three, times four, times six—suggests machines or humans caught in a loop.
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