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Vijay Iyer: Five Empty Chambers (2016) for five flutes

from Density 2036: part iv (2016) by Claire Chase

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Vijay Iyer: Five Empty Chambers (2016)

by Vijay Iyer (1971-)

Every sound you hear in this piece was generated by Claire Chase. My initial idea was to build a piece for live flute and pre-recorded audio. I asked Claire to record herself playing non-pitched material so that I could build some accompanying rhythms and textures.

I specified almost nothing about what I needed, and so what she sent me were not isolated individual sounds, but a series of virtuosic pitch-free impromptus on five different flutes (contrabass flute, alto flute, flute, piccolo, and ocarina). She 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. The more I sat with the results, the more I realized that additional flute might not be necessary. So I decided to give Claire a break for this round. Thank you for listening.

- V.I.

Composer-pianist Vijay Iyer is the Franklin D. and Florence Rosenblatt Professor of the Arts at Harvard University. He was voted Downbeat Magazine’s Jazz Artist of the Year for 2012, 2015, and 2016, and he has received a MacArthur Fellowship, a Doris Duke Performing Artist Award, and a Grammy nomination. His twenty-one recordings include A Cosmic Rhythm with Each Stroke (ECM, 2016) in duo with Wadada Leo Smith, and Break Stuff (ECM, 2015) with his trio. He serves as Director of the Banff International Workshop in Jazz and Creative Music, and as Music Director for the 2017 Ojai Music Festival.

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from Density 2036: part iv (2016), 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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