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DENSITY @ X
2013-2023

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Photo: Karen Chester.

part xi (2024)

WORKS

Terry Riley: The Holy Liftoff*

Co-commissioned by Stanford Live, Tippet Rise, The Kitchen, and Density Arts, with the support of CAP UCLA.
*Realized by Samuel Clay Birmaher

part x (2023)

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WORKS

Anna Thorvaldsdottir: Ubique (2023) for flute, two cellos, piano, and electronics*

*Co-commissioned by Carnegie Hall, The Pnea Foundation with generous support from the Cheswatyr Foundation, and Kurt Chauviere.

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part ix (2022)

WORKS

Craig Taborn: Busy Griefs and Endangered Charms (2022-23) for flute, clarinet, cello, piano, and electronics*

*Commissioned by the Fromm Music Foundation at Harvard University. 

part viii (2021)

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WORKS

Matana Roberts: Auricular Hearsay (2021) for flute, video, and optional collaborating performers

Ann Cleare: anfa (2021) for contrabass flute, bass flute, electronics and video

Wang Lu: Aftertouch (2021) for flute, piccolo, bass flute, electronics and video

Photo: Walter Wlodarczyk

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part vii (2020)

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Photos: Pete Woodhead

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part vi (2019)

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WORKS

Olga Neuwirth: Magic Flu-idity (2019) for solo flute and typewriter
Pamela Z: Louder Warmer Denser (2019) for flute, bass flute, contrabass flute, and fixed media
Phyllis Chen: Roots of Interior (2019) for flute and heartbeat 
Sarah Hennies: Reservoir 2 (2019) for bass flute and voices 

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Photo: Aram Boghosian

part v (2017)

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Photos: Kristen Loken

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WORKS

Marcos Balter: Pan for speaking/singing flutist and large ensemble (2017–18, rev. 2019)

1. Death of Pan; 2. Processional; 3. Pan’s Flute; 4. Music of the Spheres; 5. Echo; 6. Serenade; 7. Fray; 8. Soliloquy

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part iv (2016)

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WORKS

Suzanne Farrin: The Stimulus of Loss for glissando flute and ondes Martenot (2016)

Tyshawn Sorey: Bertha’s Lair for flutes and percussion (2016, rev. 2018)

Vijay Iyer: Five Empty Chambers (2016)

Pauchi Sasaki: Gama XV: Piece for Two Speaker Dresses (2016) for bass flute, violin, electronic live processing, vocals and two Speaker Dresses

Richard Beaudoin: Another Woman of Another Kind for flute and eight voices (2016)

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Photo: Maria Alejandra Cardona

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Photo: Karen Chester

part iii (2015)

WORKS

Dai Fujikura: Lila for solo flute, bass flute and contrabass flute (2015)
Francesca Verunelli: The Famous Box Trick for bass flute and electronics (2015)

Nathan Davis: Limn for bass flute, contrabass flute and electronics (2015)

Jason Eckardt: The Silenced, a mono-drama for solo flute (2015)

Pauline Oliveros: Intensity 21.5: Grace Chase for speaking flutist, percussion and Expanded Instrument System (2015)

parts i-ii (2013-14)

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Photo: Ruby Washington

WORKS

Marcos Balter: Pessoa for six bass flutes (2013)

Mario Diaz de Leon: Luciform for flute and electronics (2013)

Felipe Lara: Meditation and Calligraphy for solo bass flute (2014)

Felipe Lara: Parábolas na Caverna for solo amplified flute (2014)

George Lewis: Emergent for flute and electronics (2014)

Du Yun: An Empty Garlic for bass flute and electronics (2014)

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