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Vijay Iyer's Flute Goals (Five Empty Chambers) Debuts on Claire Chase's "Density 2036" Series

Dec. 08, 2016

Vijay Iyer's <em>Flute Goals (Five Empty Chambers)</em> Debuts on Claire Chase's "Density 2036" Series

On December 1, Vijay Iyer’s new work Flute Goals (Five Empty Chambers), for pre-recorded tape, received its debut during “part iv” of flutist Claire Chase’s Density 2036 series, presented at The Kitchen in New York. Chase’s project, an ambitious 22-year commissioning program, develops and debuts new works for flute between 2014 and 2036, the centennial of Edgard Varèse’s seminal solo flute work, Density 21.5.

Iyer’s Flute Goals (Five Empty Chambers) consists entirely of non-pitched sounds recorded by Chase on five different flutes (contrabass flute, alto flute, flute, piccolo, and ocarina). Iyer writes: 

[Chase] displayed a different personality on each instrument; it was like listening to a cypher of whisper-quiet battle emcees, or perhaps a series of encounters with various insect-robots, whirring and buzzing in the air in front of you. I decided I would treat each of her improvisations as an episode. I built a specific environment around each one, and ran them through effects so that her extemporaneous rhythms were triggering other sounds.

For more information on Vijay Iyer, visit schott-music.com.

Vijay Iyer
Flute Goals (Five Empty Chambers) (2016)
for pre-recorded tape
5’

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