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Jason Eckardt: The Silenced (2015​)​, a monodrama for solo flute

from Density 2036: part iii (2015) by Claire Chase

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Jason Eckardt: The Silenced

The Silenced is a meditation on those who are muted, by force or by political, economic, or social circumstances, yet still struggle to be heard. While composing the work, I was concerned with the ideas of trauma and self expression during and after a traumatic experience. This is manifested musically by gagged, stifled sounds that are perpetually in transition towards a clearer articulation that is never fully reached. Significantly, it is the flute, not the voice, that comes closest to realizing a kind of expressive "purity," free of the noise and interference that typify so much of multilayered sound strata in the piece.

The silenced is dedicated with great love and admiration to Claire Chase for her Density 2036 project.

Jason Eckardt

Jason Eckardt (b. 1971) played guitar in jazz and metal bands until, upon first hearing the music of Webern, he immediately devoted himself to composition. Since then, his music has been influenced by his interests in perceptual complexity, the physical and psychological dimensions of performance, political activism, and self-organizing processes in the natural world. Three portrait albums are available on the Mode and Tzadik labels and his music is published by Carl Fischer. He teaches composition at the Peabody Conservatory, City University of New York’s Graduate Center and Brooklyn College, and lives in the Catskill Mountains.

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from Density 2036: part iii (2015), released December 18, 2020

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Claire Chase Brooklyn, New York

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Claire Chase is a flutist, interdisciplinary artist, educator and advocate for new and experimental music. She was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 2012, and in 2017 was awarded the Avery Fisher Prize from Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. Chase is Professor of the Practice of Music at Harvard University. ... more

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