THE FLUTES!
Sunday May 31 | doors at 7:30pm | performance at 8:00pm
$15 ADVANCE tickets | $20 DAY OF SHOW | $10 STUDENT tickets with ID | always pay what you can
a quartet consort playing new and old works for flutes written by members of the ensemble and Sarah Davachi
THE FLUTES! is a project by Rachel Beetz to explore the many ways flutes exist and sound throughout our world. This concert features 4 premieres for a quartet of various flutes. You will hear a work composed by Sarah Davachi for four bass flutes adapted with distortion, a premiere composition by Michael Matsuno for four alto flutes, a new improvisatory work by Teresa Díaz de Cossio for various flutes, a consort of flutes constructed out of electrical conduit designed by Rachel Beetz, and a classical piccolo ensemble piece by Wilfrido Terrazas.
Their performance brings together flutist composers, all who have their own in-depth idiosyncratic relationships to our instruments. After this show, you will hear flutes everywhere: the eyes of the eyes are open.
Sarah Davachi
Sarah Davachi (b. 1987, Canada) is a composer and performer whose work is concerned with the close intricacies of timbral and temporal space, utilizing extended durations and alternate tuning systems to underscore gradual variations in texture, harmonic complexity, intonation, and psychoacoustic phenomena. Her compositions span solo, chamber ensemble, and acousmatic formats, incorporating a wide range of both acoustic and electronic instrumentation. Similarly informed by minimalist and longform structures, early music concepts of intervallic relation and affect, as well as experimental production practices of the studio environment, in her sound is an intimate and patient experience that reconfigures perceptions of the familiar and the distant..
Rachel Beetz
Composer and flutist, Rachel Beetz experiences sound as touch. Her music “suggests the action of supernatural entities,” (The Quietus), while also being a “soundtrack for a cooking show turned film noir” (Best of Experimental Bandcamp). As a flutist, Rachel Beetz plays “elegantly” (Washington Post) while “evoking the roar of prehistoric animals” (San Diego Union Tribune).
Wilfrido Terrazas
I am a flutist, improviser, composer, and educator. My work explores the borderlands between improvisation, musical notation, and collective creation. My music making is heavily influenced by many traditions, notably experimentalist practices from Latin America, the US, and Europe, such as African American creative music and jazz, European free improvisation, sound-based approaches to composition, and the emergence of collective approaches to music/sound creation in Latin America in the early 21st century. It is also robustly informed by folk traditions and Indigenous aesthetics and ethics from my native Mexico, and by many traditions of wind instrument performance from the Americas, Asia, Europe, and beyond. But perhaps the most important influence on my work is my life as a borderlander, as a fronterizo. I grew up in Ensenada, Mexico, and spent most of my formative years coming and going across the Tijuana-San Diego border, slowly learning how to make apparent opposites come together and how to navigate through hybrid cultures.
Teresa Díaz de Cossio
Teresa Díaz de Cossio whose practice moves fluidly as a performer (flutist), educator, researcher whose work moves fluidly across performance, scholarship, and community engagement on both sides of the U.S.–Mexico border. Trained as an interdisciplinary artist-scholar, Teresa recently completed her DMA in Contemporary Music Performance at the University of California San Diego, where her work integrated academic research with embodied, improvisatory, and practice-based forms of learning. Her doctoral research centers on the Mexican American composer Alida Vázquez, examining intersections of archive, migration, gender, electronic music, transnational creative networks; this work has been presented internationally and published in collections such as Radical Sounds of Latin America and Musicians’ Migratory Patterns (Routledge).
Michael Kento Matsuno
Michael Kento Matsuno is a flutist based in Los Angeles whose musical life integrates work in performance, research, and education. As a soloist and chamber musician, Michael is committed to bridging the flute’s 20th century repertoire to evolving ways of playing and writing for the instrument. He has premiered works by Alvin Lucier, Terry Riley, and Jürg Frey, and has commissioned many others by composers including Wolfgang von Schweinitz, Wilfrido Terrazas, Eva-Maria Houben, and Berglind Tómasdóttir.