Ubique

Ubique

DSL-92280 (Sono Luminus, CD)

FIRST RELEASE (28 February 2025)

Playing time: 45'00"
Tracks: 11
℗ 2025 Sono Luminus LLC
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Sent to a reviewer on 2 February 2025

Claire Chase, flutes
Katinka Kleijn, cello
Seth Parker Woods, cello
Cory Smythe, piano
Levy Lorenzo, live sound

Anna Thorvaldsdóttir:

Ubique:
1 part I
2 part II
3 part III
4 part IV
5 part V
6 part VI
7 part VII
8 part VIII
9 part IX
10 part X
11 part XI

'Ubique lives on the border between enigmatic lyricism and atmospheric distortion. Through a combination of sounds, pitches, and textural nuances, low deep drones envelop lyrical materials and harmonies that breathe in and out of focus throughout the progress of the piece. The flow of the music is primarily guided by continuous expansion and contraction – of various kinds and durations – as it streams with subtle interruptions and frictions but ever moving forward in the overall structure. The work is inspired by the notion of being everywhere at the same time, an enveloping omnipresence, while simultaneously focusing on details within the density of each particle, echoed in various forms of fragmentation and interruption and in the sustain of certain elements of a sound beyond their natural resonance – throughout the piece, sounds are both reduced to their smallest particles and their atmospheric presence expanded towards the Infinite. As with my music generally, the inspiration is not something I am trying to describe through the music as such – it is a way to intuitively approach and work with the core energy, structure, atmosphere and material of the piece.' - Anna Thorvaldsdóttir. Ubique is part of Density 2036, a twenty-four-year project launched by Claire Chase in 2013 to create a new body of flute repertoire leading up to the one-hundredth anniversary of Edgard Varèse's 1936 flute solo, Density 21.5. The project reimagines the solo flute literature over a quarter-century through commissions, performances, recordings, education and an accessible archive at densityarts.org

 

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