Claire Chase: Density 2036, Part vii & more [LIVE]
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Vijay Iyer — Flute Goals (Five Empty Chambers)
Felipe Lara — Meditation and Calligraphy
Mario Diaz de Leon — Luciform
Marcos Balter — Pan
Claire Chase’s ongoing Density 2036 project is looking both backward and forward in December, with a livestreamed event from The Kitchen at Queenslab on December 18 celebrating the release of four albums with Chase’s recordings of Density parts i-v and the performance of the world premiere of part vii: Sex Magic (2020) by Liza Lim.
Sex Magic is an evening-length piece for contrabass flute, electronics and an installation of kinetic percussion, about the sacred erotic in women’s history. Lim writes: “This is a work about an alternative cultural logic of women’s power as connected to cycles of the womb – the life-making powers of childbirth, the ‘skin-changing’, world-synchronising temporalities of the body and the womb centre as a site of divinatory wisdom.”
Works from Densities past will be performed by Chase and other flutists, including Carlos Aguilar, Ilaria Hawley, and an ensemble of college and preparatory division students, faculty, and alumni from The Juilliard School, where Chase is currently engaged as a Creative Associate. Ara Guzelimian, interim dean and director of music at Juilliard and Artistic Director of the Ojai Music Festival, will moderate several discussions with Chase and Lim.
7pm-8pm Eastern / 4pm-5pm Pacific
World Premiere of Density 2036: part vii (2019-20)
Liza Lim – Sex Magic for contrabass flute, electronics, and an installation of kinetic percussion instruments (world premiere)
Claire Chase, contrabass flute
Levy Lorenzo, electronics
Nicholas Houfek, lighting and production design
Ara Guzelimian and Liza Lim in conversation
8pm-9pm Eastern / 5pm-6pm Pacific
Density 2036: parts i-v (2013-2018) Album Release Celebration
Vijay Iyer – Flute Goals (Five Empty Chambers)
Claire Chase, flute
The Juilliard School Flutes
Felipe Lara – Meditation and Calligraphy
Claire Chase, bass flute
Mario Diaz de Leon – Luciform
Carlos Aguilar, flute
Richard Beaudoin – life, life, life (2020)
Ilaria Hawley, flute
Marcos Balter – Soliloquy from Pan
Claire Chase, flute