After fulfilling her residency as an Academic Visitor to the University of Waikato’s Music Conservatorium, Tessa Brinckman continues her series of exciting concerts in New Zealand from September to October 2017.

When Flutes Had Words presents mysterious and virtuosic worlds between narrative and music. The solo concert features flute, piccolo, alto, bass flute and electroacoustics, from micro-tonalities to musical groove, weaving text between and inside the music, from all over the globe. (Go here for a fantastic interview with Eva Radich on Radio New Zealand’s Upbeat, in a preview of her Waikato concert, much of which will be performed at the New Music Central on October 2nd).

Martin Lodge’s Pan Dreaming pays homage to Debussy’s Syrinx on alto flute, alongside Tessa Brinckman’s prose poem Pan Visits Kokopelli in Arizona. Mouth Music was conceived by Pascale Criton in close collaboration with Tessa Brinckman performing on flute, where language and music intersect, through some language poetry of Bernard Requichot KRITI & A K.O.I BA. Tenderness of Cranes was inspired by a famous shakuhachi melody “Tsuru No Tsugomori”, and Shirish Korde oscillates his work between Japanese traditions and Western contemporary aesthetics for the flute, alongside An Ache by poet Angela Decker. In A Cracticus Fancie Tessa Brinckman embeds a recording of Denis Glover reading his famous poem “The Magpies” within source recordings and evocations of human and bird stories, with live piccolo. Nicolas Vèrin evokes a quivering ephemerality through the flute in Thyrcis, which is the name of a shepherd who plays the flute, as well as that of a butterfly that loves to rest on the leaves on the edge of the forest, alongside the poem she walks with fingers down by Claudia F. Savage. Feadóg mhór in oíche ghelai (Flute in a moonlit night) by Martin Lodge creates a haunting narrative with live bass flute, recorded alto flute, vocalisations and taonga puoro (traditional Maori instruments), and will be read alongside Song of the Horseman (1860) by Federico Garcia Lorca. Hüzün Nar was inspired by Tessa Brinckman’s visit to modern and historic Istanbul, and is performed with live alto flute over a contemporary groove with electronic patches and manipulated flute recordings to give a sense of where Istanbul has been, and where it is going, alongside Tessa Brinckman’s short-short essay, Descent.

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