diggs dight dighted dighter dights digilio digioia digit digital digital1 digitali digitall digitals digitate digitiza digitize digitizi digits digitule. The album's three tracks find Diaz de Leon deepening his collaboration with the core members of ICE, now a decade long. The mythological trope of the labyrinth, where a winding path leads to a central event that demands a fundamental change of direction, features heavily in the album's blend of acoustic and electronic elements, where a wide variety of ideas are unified by continuous momentum and arresting points of climax. "Luciform" and "The Soul is the Arena" pit virtuosic performances by soloists Claire Chase (flute) and Joshua Rubin (bass clarinet) against an array of vivid electronic textures. These range in character from doom-laden sub-bass to abrasive synthetic cacophony, recalling both Wolf Eyes and the early electronic works of Stockhausen. The elegiac "Portals Before Dawn" is written for a sextet of woodwinds, piano, percussion, and features Diaz de Leon himself on synthesizer. Reducing the density of the previous pieces to its essence, the work unfolds over 20 haunting minutes, transporting the listener through a boundless landscape of rising and falling intensities. Genre modern classical Comment by alainjamot Visionary and immersive, this is a bold body of work from an emerging master of modern composition. This piece managed to create an entire world, one through which we all journey as we listen. Same disjointed tension as the original planet of the apes score Comment by ref11ĭamn this is so great Comment by hughdavisonĪbsolutely amazing piece of music. One of the best electroacoustic pieces I've heard in my musical career so far.International Contemporary Ensemble’s Claire Chase returns to Soundstreams after the sold-out success of The Whisper Opera.ĭensity 2036 is a 22-year project begun by Chase in 2014 to commission an entirely new body of repertory for solo flute each year until the 100th Anniversary of Edgard Varèse’s groundbreaking 1936 flute solo, Density 21.5.Įach season between 2014-2036, Claire will premiere a new 60-minute program of solo flute work commissioned that year in a special performance at The Kitchen in New York City, and on tour in select cities thereafter. ICE presents a performance inspired by the current Pulitzer exhibition, Art of Its Own Making, which “explores the autonomous object as something simultaneously enduring and ephemeral, synchronic, and diachronic.Additionally, each cycle of works (Density 2014, Density 2015, Density 2020, etc) will be released in their world premiere recordings annually, and scores, performance notes, and materials be made available digitally as educational resources for flutists everywhere.Įvery three years of the cycle (Density 2016, Density 2019, etc) a retrospective event will be held in which Claire will perform cumulative concerts of all Density work commissioned up until that date. In 2013 Chase released Density, for which The Washington Post praised her as “One of the most electrifying flutists on the planet.” Over the past decade Chase has presented the world premieres of over 100 new works for flute, many of them tailor-made for her. Since its founding in 2001, ICE has premiered over 500 compositions – the majority of these new works by emerging composers – in venues ranging from alternative spaces to concert halls around the world.Ī 2012 MacArthur Fellow, Claire Chase is a soloist, collaborative artist, and arts entrepreneur. ICE redefines concert music as it brings together new work and new listeners in the 21st century. ICE functions as performer, presenter, and educator, advancing the music of our time by developing innovative new works and new strategies for audience engagement. The International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), described by the New York Times as “one of the most accomplished and adventurous groups in new music,” is dedicated to reshaping the way music is created and experienced.
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